The Red-Hot Dollar and Other Stories From the Black Cat #251108

Give permission! It was equivalent to twenty dollars per thousand, or double the minimum rate. Give per mission! I told Mr. Umbstaetter he could cut it down two-halves if he'd only send the money along. He did, by return mail. And that is just precisely how and why I stayed by the writing game. Literally, and literarily, I was saved by the Black Cat short story.