"You go back to your editor and tell him that I will put in a column for one year.Wait.Has anybody seen this ?" he added, holding up the proof-slip.
"Nobody, sir, and I will have the type distributed as soon as I get back." "See that you do.

Tell Brooks; he will send you the copy.

Now get out.
Infamous scoundrel!" he said when the fellow was gone.

"But don't say anything about it at home, for it really amounts to nothing." He tore the proof-slip into small fragments and threw them into the spittoon.
"What is it all about ?" Henry asked.
"Oh, it's the foulest of fabrication.

About a year ago there came a widow from Washington with a letter from one of our friends, and asked for a position in the store.