"And the yarn is going to make the biggest and best midsummer sensation that the 'Blade' has ever had!" Mr.Pollock and Len Spencer remained at camp for something like an hour and a half, enjoying a trout luncheon before they left.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon when editor and reporter reached the "Blade" office.
At five o'clock the "Blade" put out a bulletin, around which a crowd collected in no time.

The crowd grew to such proportions that the policeman on the beat tried in vain to make it "move on." That bulletin read: "Lake Tragedy All a Tremendous Hoax: Read the 'Blade's' six o'clock extra." At a few minutes before six o'clock Len Spencer began to arrange one of the street windows of the "Blade" office.
First of all, from hooks, he suspended Dodge and Bayliss' "ghosts" of the night before.
"What does that mean ?" asked the wondering onlookers.
Then an unexploded bomb bearing the trademark of the Sploderite Company was put in the window.

It was followed by the _siren_ whistle that Bayliss had dropped in his flight.

Then four "Quaker" wooden guns, a red-stained bandage and a partly used bottle of strawberry ice cream coloring appeared.
Promptly at six o'clock newsboys appeared on the street with the exciting announcement: "Extree! Extree 'Bla-ade'! All about Dick & Co.'s latest! The best joke of the season!" Papers went off like hot cakes.

Before the evening was over more than two thousand copies of that edition had been sold.