If I went, I'd have to disappoint all my subscrib--" "Well, what will you take to pilot us up ?" interrupted Paul in desperation, willing to offer fifty dollars if there was a chance.
"You see I would have to disappoint all my subscribers and then the advertisers would kick and want to knock off on their bills.

Taking all those things into consideration, I don't see how I could go up for less than three dollars." Of course he was taken along and luxuriously entertained as well as paid the three dollars.

The week following the editor's return, his paper contained an item to the effect that "owing to illness in his family, the editor was compelled to disappoint his subscribers last week." At St.Paul, Boyton began preparations for the longest voyage he had yet undertaken--down the Yellowstone and Missouri..