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It tasted good, and his hunger for the game became more acute. And once more the papers sensationalized him. BURNING DAYLIGHT was a big-letter headline again. Interviewers flocked about him.

But the more I studied the smaller I felt, for this was one of the years of depression. "Two Hundred Thousand In New York Idle," I read in a headline. Here was literature that gripped! "I guess I'll stay right where I am. It's safer," I thought anxiously. "Perhaps if I work hard enough they'll give me a raise at Christmas.

Jimmy, with the capacity of the trained newspaper man to tell a big story in a few words, told Hite enough in four sentences to furnish material for a headline. Then, with malicious satisfaction, he said: "There's a New York end on this, chief."

And for lack of other occupation she went into the hall and got the evening paper, which the carrier had just delivered. A staring headline on the front page stiffened her to scandalized attention. Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption: WILLIAM WAGSTAFF IS A BEAR Under that the subhead: Husky Mining Man Tumbles Prices and Brokers.

The General unfolded his Standard in the railway carriage, and turned to the principal page of news. A big headline, followed by a number of smaller ones, caught his eye: "Outrage at Shawur. An English Officer and Five Sepoys Caught in a Trap. Death of Major Sayers. Regiment Sent in Pursuit. Statement in the House." The General bent his brows over the report.

Since then text-books and serious periodicals have dealt with these matters thoroughly. They are now familiar to all thinking Americans. My entrance into the campaign was accompanied by a blare of publicity, and during that fortnight I never picked up a morning or evening newspaper without reading, on the first page, some such headline as "Crowds flock to hear Paret."

With a pang of utter loneliness amid these vexing problems, Roger felt it crowding in, this city of his children's lives. As he strode on down Broadway, an old hag selling papers thrust one in his face and he caught a glimpse of a headline. Some bigwig woman re-divorced. How about Laura's "experiment"? A mob of street urchins nearly upset him. How about Deborah? How about children?

"Hey," he remarked in a pleasant conversational tone. "Hey!" No answer, he grew bolder. "Hey!" This time the conversational tone was italicized. A rustle of voices somewhere rewarded him that must be people talking. Well, if they talked, they could listen. "HEY!" and now his voice was emphatic enough for headline capitals. The rustle of voices ceased. There was a moment of stupefied silence. Then,

"How would you kill 'em,—with poison or what?" And so on, almost without end. He was to find that a man can become famous and infamous in a single newspaper headline, and as for the accuracy of the interviews there was but one thing to be said: the questions were invariably theirs and the answers also.

At first the words of a certain headline of a Sunday newspaper meant nothing to her; they conveyed only a visualized sense of familiarity. The largest type ran thus: "Lloyd B. Conant secures divorce." And then the subheadings: "Well-known Saint Louis paint manufacturer wins suit, pleading one year's absence of wife." "Her mysterious disappearance recalled." "Nothing has been heard of her since."