Show Genius and Ind David Christie Murray he the novelist novelist novelist novel novel- writes Eight or ten years ago I Iwas Iwa wag sitting in the tho Savage club Inthe in inthe inthe the company of four distinguished men of letters On Ono One was tle the tte editor edior of ofa ofa a London daily daiy and and ho was talking rather too humbly as I thought about his own career I 1 do not suppose suppose sup sup- pose he said that any man ma in i my my present position has experienced in London the privations I 1 know when I first camo here hero I went hungry for three days twenty enty years back and for three thee nights I slept in the park One of tho the party turned to m mo me You cap cap- that Christie Christe I answered Four nights on the embankment four four- days hungry My left-hand left neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor was a poet and he chimed in laconically Five In I efe effect t it proved that there e was wa not on ono of us who had not slept in that hotel of the Beautiful Star which is always open to everybody We had bad ha all al been frequent Ire fre quent guests there and now wo we were all nI prosperous and had found other and more comfortable lodgings |