[Jennie Baxter, Journalist by Robert Barr (writer)]@TWC D-Link bookJennie Baxter, Journalist CHAPTER IX 4/18
Are you sure you understand ?" "Yes, my lady." A few moments later Jennie was in the cab, driving through the nearly deserted streets.
She dismissed her vehicle at Charing Cross, walked down the Strand until she got another, then proceeded direct to the office of the _Daily Bugle_, whose upper windows formed a row of lights, all the more brilliant because of the intense darkness below. She found the shorthand writers waiting for her.
The editor met her at the door of the room reserved for her, and said, with visible anxiety on his brow, "Well, what success ?" "Complete success," she answered shortly. "Good!" he replied emphatically.
"Now I propose to read the typewritten sheets as they come from the machine, correct them for obvious clerical errors, and send them right away to the compositors.
You can, perhaps, glance over the final proofs, which will be ready almost as soon as you have finished." "Very well.
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