"I'll help you if I can." The young editors agreed to pay Mr.Beecher a weekly sum of two hundred and fifty dollars--which he knew was considerable for them.
When the first article had been written they took him their first check.

He looked at it quizzically, and then at the boys.

Then he said simply: "Thank you." He took a pin and pinned the check to his desk.

There it remained, much to their curiosity.
The following week he had written the second article and the boys gave him another check.

He pinned that up over the other.