"It has," says Mrs. Sampson. "Ever since I knew him he has been reciting to me a lot of irreligious rhymes by some person he calls Ruby Ott, and who is no better than she should be, if you judge by her poetry."

I can't remember anything in the Rubaiyat that the primmest
matron should object to.

"Then Idaho has struck a new book," says I, "for the one he had was by a man who writes under the nom de plume of K. M."