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Show WRITES NOVEL IN TEN DAY5I. H That Is Feat of Popular F. Marlon Crawford. H The popular American novelist, F. H Marlon Crawford, has a heautlful villa in Sorrento. Tho villa, on the edge ot rich brown cliffs-that fall sheer, like a wall, Into the bluo waters of tha Mediterranean, offers a superb vlow of tho shining sea, oft Capri, ot Naplea H and Vesuvius. Mr. Crawford has written an In- , . credible number ot novels. Indeed, It, Is said of him that bo can, without difficulty, wrlto a long and really quite readable novel In ton days. Ilonco It Is not strange that with his weakh and fame ho should be tho Hon of 8or- rento. In a Sorrento hotel sat a group of American tourists. "Tho nattves here," Bald a tourist from Duluth, "talk of nothing but Marlanna Crawfoot. 1 have found out nt last what they mean. Thoy mean, by Jove, our great American novelist, F. Marlon Crawford." "Crawford Is a wonderful writer," said a tourlsl from Boise City. "Ho thinks nothing of turning out a novel In three days." Hj "I "doubt that," a tourist from Haiti- more said. "Yet It Is true that Craw- ford hns written a great many hooka oyer 100. I think tho figures stand. And ho Is still young, remember. Ho H may yet break all records." H "I don't believe any man living H ever read all Crawford's books," said a tourist from No' York. H A tall, broad-shouldered gentleman, who had been listening on the out- H skirts of the group, with something H like a sneer lifting his sweeping mus- tache, spoke up Impatiently at thU H Juncture. H "I havo read Uicm all," he said. The tourist looked in surprise at tho H stranger. H "Have you, eh?' Bald a Chlcagoan. "And who, may 1 sk, are you?" H "I am Crawford," was the reply. H |