It brought the whole thing back so painfully to her mind.
"What shall I do with it," she asked; "tear it up ?" "Yes," he answered.

"No, stop a bit," and taking it from her he wrote "cancelled" in big letters across it, signed and dated it.
"There," he said, "now send it to be framed and glazed, and it shall be hung here in the office, to show how they used to do business at Meeson's." No.

1 snorted, and looked at Eustace aghast.

What would the young man be after next?
"Are the gentlemen assembled in the hall ?" asked Eustace of him when the remaining documents were put away again.
No.

1 said that they were, and accordingly, to the hall they went, wherein were gathered all the editors, sub-editors, managers, sub-managers of the various departments, clerks, and other employees, not forgetting the tame authors, who, a pale and mealy regiment, had been marched up thither from the Hutches, and the tame artists with flying hair--and were now being marshalled in lines by No.