Of the numerous methods of combating a coward who truckles to a few and bullies the remainder, the way Allan Morris had chosen was his pen. He was the A. M. Whose initials appeared in a third-rate society paper beneath the tales which brought their author in a guinea each, and at his elbow a pile of ms. Proclaimed that he was further engaged upon a novel.
Leonard Merrick was an English novelist. Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."