CHAPTER XXXII.
THE YOUNG EDITOR.
The next number of the Centreville "Gazette" contained the following notice from the pen of Mr.Anderson:-- "For the first time since our connection with the 'Gazette,' we purpose taking a brief respite from our duties.

The state of our health renders a vacation desirable, and an opportune invitation from a brother at the West has been accepted.

Our absence may extend to two or three months.

In the interim we have committed the editorial management to Mr.Harry Walton, who has been connected with the paper, in a different capacity, for nearly three years.

Though Mr.
Walton is a very young man, he has already acquired a reputation, as contributor to papers of high standing in Boston, and we feel assured that our subscribers will have no reason to complain of the temporary change in the editorship." "The old man has given you quite a handsome notice, Harry," said Ferguson.
"I hope I shall deserve it," said Harry; "but I begin now to realize that I am young to assume such responsible duties.