 He even thoughtgreatly overrating my literary powersthat this might have the incidental advantage of reaching a wider public, and that, certainly, it would reach a great many people sooner than Weston. To my objection that if accepted as fiction, it would for that very reason be regarded as false, he replied that there would be indications enough in the narrative for the few readersthe very fewwho at present were prepared to go further into the matter.