Oh, the whole thing got all mixed up! Now, that was News! And they fired me by wire that night! The People's Choice was awful hostile.

And me raised tender, too!" "Well, then, what did you do ?" asked I, getting interested in spite of myself.
"I was far, far from home.

But not thus easily could I be shaken out of my chosen profession.

In thirty-eight minutes I was at work as managin' editor of a mornin' paper.

That particular Basswood Junction was just startin' a daily, the kind the real-estate men and the local congressman have to support or go out of the business.