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Emberg told Larry there was a special assignment for him, the young reporter's heart beat high with hope. He had often wished for one, but they had never come his way before, though to many on the Leader they were an old story. "What is it?" asked Larry, wondering how far out of town it would take him. "I want you to find Mr. Potter, the missing millionaire, Larry," said Mr. Emberg. "Find Mr.
But it seems they didn't wait to see what the outcome would be. I'm much obliged to you, Larry." "So am I," added Grace, with a smile. "I'd do it all over again for the sake of getting such a good story and er of course, finding you and helping your daughter," Larry finished. "Now to telephone this in." Mr. Emberg could hardly believe the news that Larry fairly shouted over the wire.
"He has a very fine wife and " "And a beautiful daughter," broke in Harvey. "Look out, Larry, this is not a love story you're working on." Larry blushed like a girl, for several times that day he had caught himself thinking of Grace and how pretty she was. "Let Larry alone for getting all the facts in the case," said Mr. Emberg. "I suppose Miss Grace gave you some information?"
No one had seen Mr. Potter, as far as Mack could learn, and the reporter was not allowed to go aboard the ship, as the custom officers were engaged in looking over the baggage of the passengers. "Well, we've got a good story," said Mr. Emberg late that afternoon, when work for the day was over. "It's a beat, too." "Did any of 'em make lifts for it?" asked Mr. Hylard, the assistant city editor.
I'd like to be a detective and see if I couldn't find her father for her. I wonder where he can be, or why he disappeared? Of course, if he's out of his mind, as Mr. Emberg believes, that would account for it, but I don't think he is." Telling his mother he did not expect to be out long, Larry left the house early that evening. He intended to go to Mr.
Potter. To show that it was Mr. Potter to whom he was referring Mr. Emberg added at the bottom of the story, and under a separate single-line head, a note to the effect that all efforts were unavailing to get an interview with Hamden Potter, the financier, who that day had returned from Europe with his family, as Mr. Potter would see no reporters. It was added that Mr.
Emberg the next day. "If you misquoted Sullivan it means a bad thing for our paper." "I quoted him correctly." At that moment the telephone on Mr. Emberg's desk rang and he answered it. "Dexter?" he repeated. "Yes, we have a reporter of that name here." Larry was all attention at once. "Who wants him? Oh, Mr. Sullivan? Is this Mr. Sullivan? Well, this is the city editor of the Leader.
"That's not true!" replied Larry. "I was at the house this morning, and he wasn't home. I've been all around the steamer piers and got no trace of him. I just left his daughter, and she would know if he had been home all this while." "Well, they've got the story," repeated Mr. Emberg, with the insistence that city editors sometimes use when they fear their reporters have been beaten.
It is done rather than print an entire new edition, and is sometimes used when some other paper gets a beat or piece of news which your paper must have, or in case of an accident happening after the last edition has gone to press. "The Star lifted our story almost word for word," said Mr. Emberg. "Guess they didn't take the trouble to confirm it.
Larry sat down at his typewriter, which he had learned to operate with considerable speed, and was soon banging away at the keys. "Shall I put in that about Mr. Potter and the new line?" he called to Mr. Emberg. "No, I'll have Harvey attend to that part. You just tell of the interview in regard to supporting Reilly. Make it a good story."
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