At a publisher's Christmas party in Manhattan, the Devil, who is everywhere, found himself cornered by a critic from a Little Magazine. The critic thought that the Devil looked too forceful for an intellectual, too thoughtful for a book publisher, and decided at first that he must be somebody high up in cinema. So he began to tell him about the esoteric first novel he hoped to sell to Hollywood.
The Devil broke in rudely: "Have you read The Gauntlet?"*
"Certainly not," said the critic. "Have you?"
"Certainly," said the Devil. "In my line we try...
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