"Can anyone else work the press ?" "I'll find out," said Patsy, marching into the workroom.
Neither Fitz nor Larry would undertake to run the press.

They said the machine was so complicated it required an expert, and unless an experienced pressman could be secured the paper must suspend publication.
Here was an unexpected dilemma; one that for a time dazed them.
"These things always happen in the newspaper business," remarked Miss Briggs, when appealed to.

"Can't you telegraph to New York for another pressman ?" "Yes; but he can't get here in time," said Patsy.

"There's no Monday train to Chazy Junction, at all, and it would be Wednesday morning before a man could possibly arrive.

To shut down the paper would ruin it, for everyone would think we had failed in our attempt and it might take us weeks to regain public confidence." "I know," said Miss Briggs, composedly.