He didn’t use the toilet. I don’t know what his trick was.
He said, like it was in the middle of a conversation, he said, And you wrote this all yourself?
And I said, Yes, sir, every word.
He said, You want to have it published?
I said, Yes, sir.
There are printers, there’s the newspaper, they do job printing too, they do printing for Pan.
I knew that, I wasn’t going to say anything, I just sat there and nodded a little bit, wearing my best clothes.
He said, You want me to pay for it, is that it?
I said, If you’ll lend me the money, I’ll pay for it myself and pay you back out of profits.
Who will buy it? he wanted to know.
I said, There are millions of colored folks who would love to read a good story about a colored detective and a colored murderer and a beautiful colored girl.
