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He said it was sure to come out all right, but he wouldn't accept bail, though it was offered him by several loyal friends. He saw that they suspected him, and the papers all came out with big headlines, 'CHURCH ELDER ARRESTED." Allison's voice was deep with loving sympathy as his lips swept her forehead softly and he murmured, "My poor little girl!" but Jane went bravely on.
But when the same man was brought before a magistrate and defied his enemy to mortal combat in the open court, then the columns would hardly hold the excruciating information, and the headlines were so large that there was hardly room for any of the text.
From them we were lucky enough to get the London Courier of that very morning. It was interesting reading so interesting that I had to announce it all to the crew. Of course, you know the British style of headline, which gives you all the news at a glance. It seemed to me that the whole paper was headlines, it was in such a state of excitement. Hardly a word about me and my flotilla.
"It is said, on plausible if not direct authority, that one of our morning contemporaries will appropriately alter its motto to read, 'With Malice toward All: with Charity for None." But it remained for that evening's "Telegram" to bring up the heavy guns. From its first edition these headlines stood out, black and bold:
"Here it is, and with your permission I will read it to you. Listen to this, Mr. Holmes. The headlines are: 'Mysterious Affair at Lower Norwood. Disappearance of a Well Known Builder. Suspicion of Murder and Arson. A Clue to the Criminal. That is the clue which they are already following, Mr. Holmes, and I know that it leads infallibly to me.
"You might tell them that you heroically destroyed the rockets that attacked us, and that your crew behaved splendidly, and that you have landed in the Space Platform and the situation is well in hand. It isn't, but it will make nice headlines." Joe said evenly, "Our arrival's been reported?" "No," said Sanford, grinning.
You can't sell a sweet-scented, prim old-maidy newspaper to enough people to pay for the z's in one font of type. People are vulgar. Don't forget that. And you've got to make a newspaper to suit them. Lesson Number One." "It needn't be a muckraking paper, need it, forever smelling out something rotten, and exploiting it in big headlines?" "Oh, that's all bluff," replied the journalist easily.
Buck. We might match pennies for it, mornings." It lay there on the hall table that first morning, an innocent oblong, its headlines staring up at them with inky eyes. "Paper, T.A.," she said, and handed it to him. "You take it, dear." "Oh, no! No." She poured the coffee, trying to keep her gaze away from the tantalizing tail-end of the headline at whose first half she could only guess.
What do we care if the men in the packed courtroom hiss and the reporters put down the hisses in their note-books and editors write the hisses in headlines, and presses print the hisses all over the world? For the fidgety little man is free now entirely free save for fifty-four years of selfish life upon his shoulders.
"Please explain yourself, Mr. Brannigan," said Miss Eva. "She's dead. I thought you knew." "Miss Le Fay is dead?" gasped Miss Nellie. "Why weren't we told?" asked Miss Eva. "It was in the papers," said Bert. "But they didn't give Florette no front-page headlines, an' maybe you don't read the theatrical news." "No," said Miss Eva. "Well, not bein' in the profession," Mr.
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