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Sooner or later almost all my novelists come to me and say they have written poetry. I can’t think why. It does them infinite harm. Only last week Roger Simmonds was here with a kind of a play. You never saw such a thing. All the characters were parts of a motor-car—not in the least funny.”
“Oh, it won’t be anything like that,” I said. “Just some new technical experiments. I don’t suppose the average reader will notice them at all.”
“I hope not,” said Mr. Benwell. “I mean, now you’ve found your public ... well, look at Simmonds—magneto and sparking plugs and camshaft all talking in verse about communism. I don’t know what to do about it at all..... But I can count on your new novel for the autumn?”
“Yes.”
“And we can list it as ‘crime’?”
“Certainly.”
Mr. Benwell saw me to the top of the stairs. “Interesting place, Morocco,” he said. “The French are doing it very well.”
I knew what he was thinking: “The trouble about Plant is, he’s come in for money.”
In a way he was right. The money my father had left me and the proceeds which I