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Meanwhile, the stranger was seated in the dingy office upstairs with his

head bowed low on his arh the dirty -panes

and faded into darkness Night filled the rooht the "Herald" fro been within a hundred miles of Plattville He had

vastly overpaid for it Moreover, the price he had paid for it was all the

he went bitterly to work He hired a coand helped

him pursue advertisements all day The citizens shook their heads

pessiiven up the idea that the "Herald" could

ever a, and they betrayed an innocent, but caustic, doubt

of ability in any stranger

One day the new editor left a note on his door; "Will return in fifteen

hboring county of Gaines,

happening to be in Plattville on an errand to his henche the scathing inquiry, "Why?"

When he discovered this addendum, the editor smiled for the first time

since his advent, and reported the incident in his next issue, using the

rubric, "Why Has the 'Herald' Returned to Life?" as a text for a rousing

editorial on "honesty in politics," a subject of which he already knew