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Macauley was staring at him quizzically, and Harkless, puzzled, but without resentment of the other's whimsey, could only decide that the editor of the Rouen "Journal" was an exceedingly odd young man. All at once he found Meredith and the girl herself beside him; they had stopped before the dance was finished.
Alan Vernon walked thoughtfully down the lead-covered stairs, hustled by eager gentlemen hurrying up to see the great editor, whose bell was already ringing furiously, and was duly ushered by the obsequious assistant-chauffeur back into the luxurious motor.
But Crowl had no idea who the visitor was, even when told his name. He was rather pleased to meet one of Denzil's high-class friends, and welcomed him warmly. Probably he was some famous editor, which would account for his name stirring vague recollections. "We were just talking of poor Mr. Constant's portrait, Mr.
Brown come in just afore supper an' she seemed to think it was some queer as I was n't goin' to miss Elijah, but I told her she did n't know me. 'Mrs. Brown, I says, 'your son was a doctor an' you can't be expected to know what it is to board a editor, so once bit, soonest mended.
Still, even this does not often happen; they would rather chance the good thing they doubted of than underrate their readers' judgment. The young author who wins recognition in a first-class magazine has achieved a double success, first, with the editor, and then with the best reading public.
Really the only person in sight who seemed entertained was Sidley, the exchange editor, a young man with hair that had turned white before its time and in his eye the devil-driven look of a man who drinks hard, not because he wants to drink but because he can't help drinking.
Some of the editor's visitors handed T. J. money, and carried away copies of the TIMES, but all went, gently urged by the editor, and joined one or another of the groups below. The attorney drew on his coat. He would postpone his interview with Eliph' Hewlitt; Thomas Jefferson Jones was the man he wanted to see at that moment.
"It was my paper your wife read it in," he said in tones as solemn as grace over meat. "I am the editor of the paper, and two dollars will get it every week for a year." The old man shrugged himself out of the editor's imploring clasp, and looked at him.
The 'Gink's' smart enough to know that Gibson couldn't carry through his plan to overthrow the administration unless he made some pretense of opposing him and so he fixes up this raid." "The question is, What are we going to do with what we have?" commented the city editor. "Do you suppose Murphy would come through with an affidavit?" "Not unless we furnished him with protection," said John.
Yes, sir, I know how it is to be an editor in a dead town now." "We must remember, too," said his companion, thoughtfully, "there is the Thursday issue of this week to be prepared, almost at once." "Don't! Please don't mention that, Fisbee!" Parker tilted far back in his chair with his feet anchored under the desk, preserving a precarious balance.
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