Moreover, the price he had paid for it was all the money he had in the world.
The next morning he went bitterly to work.

He hired a compositor from Rouen, a young man named Parker, who set type all night long and helped him pursue advertisements all day.

The citizens shook their heads pessimistically.

They had about given up the idea that the "Herald" could ever amount to anything, and they betrayed an innocent, but caustic, doubt of ability in any stranger.
One day the new editor left a note on his door; "Will return in fifteen minutes." Mr.Rodney McCune, a politician from the neighboring county of Gaines, happening to be in Plattville on an errand to his henchmen, found the note, and wrote beneath the message the scathing inquiry, "Why ?" When he discovered this addendum, the editor smiled for the first time since his advent, and reported the incident in his next issue, using the rubric, "Why Has the 'Herald' Returned to Life ?" as a text for a rousing editorial on "honesty in politics," a subject of which he already knew something.

The political district to which Carlow belonged was governed by a limited number of gentlemen whose wealth was ever on the increase; and "honesty in politics" was a startling conception to the minds of the passive and resigned voters, who discussed the editorial on the street corners and in the stores.