Already, by long distance 'phone he had received the outlines of the news from Slade, as well as a code telegram of more than 500 words, giving him additional details.

But this paper especially pleased him.

The other Rochester sheets, which Slade would send as fast as they appeared, he already was looking forward to, with keenest pleasure.
"Ah! _This_ is what I call efficiency!" he exclaimed, settling himself in his big chair, adjusting the pince-nez on his hawk-bill and preparing to read the column for the third time.

"The way this thing was planned and carried out, and the manner in which Slade has managed to get it played up in the papers, proves to me he's a general in his line, a true Napoleon.

I may safely intrust any affair of this sort to him and his agency.