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"Now, see here, Surtaine," said Douglas smoothly, "be reasonable. It won't do the 'Clarion' any good to print a lot of yellow sensationalism about this. There are half a dozen witnesses who say it was the nurse's fault." "We have evidence on the other side." "From whom?" "Max Veltman, of our composing-room." "Veltman?
He never seemed to know he was an object of curiosity, and when as sometimes was the case half a dozen persons would come expressly to see him, he never turned his head from his work, or seemed to be conscious of their presence. In this office his progress was very rapid, and it was not very long before he became the foreman in the composing-room.
Up in the composing-room he went over the forms with the foreman, asking questions, "killing" perfectly good "stories" with rapid decision, clearing space for the biggest "scoop" which the Recorder had achieved in many months. "Chief's not home and they don't know where he is," came Jackson's anxious voice through the speaking tube. "Find him! Find him!" cried Brennan impatiently.
A powerful minister makes a speech after eleven o'clock at night; the leader-writer receives proof-sheets; he must grasp the whole scope of the speech in a flash, and then proceed with the mere mechanical work of writing. Twelve hundred words will take about an hour and twenty minutes to set down, and then the MS. must be rushed piece by piece to the composing-room.
He remembers the flush of shame that tingled him as he walked sadly homeward, thinking of some atrocious inanity he had sent upstairs to the composing-room. It is a job that engenders a healthy humility. I had always wanted to have a try at writing a column. Heaven help me, I think I had an idea that I was born for the job. I may as well be candid.
In the composing-room, also, we found, upon careful investigation, that several of the employees were very heavily overpaid at times and that they divided the surplus in their pay envelopes with the foreman. When we called these things to the attention of the manager, he was deeply surprised and pained.
He had first learned the value of it in many a clandestine game of poker, which he had condescended to play of a Saturday afternoon in a corner of the deserted composing-room. In those days of his early newspaper experience the ink-daubed denizens of the "ad-alley" had paid with hard-earned wages for many a fancy vest and expensive cravat which the paper's star reporter had worn with such aplomb.
They professed to be entirely satisfied with their work and wages, and loath to leave them; but Mars' Union had cracked his whip, and disobedience was ruin, if not death. For these poor Pennsylvania self-made slaves the Visiter had no pity, although they plead for it. It advertised for women to take their places, stating that its editor was in its composing-room.
Now, honestly, is not this much better for me, or for yourself, than the same amount of filthy beer?" "Possibly; it is a new view of the case to me," was all that Mr. Watts could say, evidently conceding that Benjamin was about right. Benjamin exchanged the press-room for the composing-room, after a few weeks. "A treat now, Ben; that is the condition of admission here," said the men.
Ah! the peon an old vaquero was not an angel, truly, but he was dangerous only to the bull and the wild horses and he was afraid even of Cota! Mr. Grey was fain to ride home empty of information. He was still more concerned a week later, on returning unexpectedly one afternoon to his sanctum, to hear a musical, childish voice in the composing-room. It was Cota!
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