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Show "All hail to W. Levington Comfort," says an exchange ex-change editor quoted by "The Philadelphia Record." "He is the Johnny-on-the-spot of the new century. For this man has already written a novel based on the Mont Pclce eruption, and the work is appearing appear-ing in a serial form in a Chicago newspaper. It was expected that this catastrophe would begin, ere long, ' to figure in fiction, but who would have thought that, when it only happened on Hay 8, the sixteenth chapter chap-ter of a novel about it would be appearing on May 31. The name of the novel is 'The Wrath of Pelec. The story concerns the virtuous Whitelaw, a millionaire's million-aire's son, and the vicious drunkard Gilday, a newspaper news-paper artist. These two, cruising in Whitelaw's yaelit, stop at St. Pierre, and the millionaire's son meets and falls in love with a fine girl named Wall. Pclce is muttering and belching smoke, and White-law White-law tries to get the Wall girl to come away with him in his yacht. She won't do it, though, because she thinks there is no danger. That is as far as the btory has advanced. I hope Whitelaw and the girl get saved somehow, and I hope that W. Levington Comfort makes a whole lot of money out of his book." |