Arthur (John Arbuthnot/Arbuthnott) Stringer (1874-1950) was the author of Watchers of Twilight (1894), A Study in King Lear (1897), The Loom of Destiny (1899), The Silver Poppy (1903), Lonely O'Malley (1905), Phantom Wires (1907), Irish Poems (1911), Never-Fail Blake (1913), The Prairie Wife (1915) and The Diamond Thieves (1923). "Blake himself, for all his dewlap and his two hundred pounds of lethargic beefiness, felt a vague and inward stirring as he finally lifted his head and looked at her. He looked into the shadowy eyes under the level brows. "