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evenings, as in the time of Harkless, when la For the little editor worked hard, and

sometimes she worked late; she alorked early She made some mistakes

at first, and one or two blunders which she took more seriously than any

one else did But she found a remedy for all such results of her

inexperience, and she developed experience She set at her task with the

energy of her youthfulness and no limit to her ambition, and she felt that

Harkless had prepared the way for a wide expansion of the paper's

interests; wider than he knew She had a belief that there were

possibilities for a country newspaper, and she brought a fresh point of

view to operate in a situation where Harkless had fallen, perhaps, too

much in the rut; and she watched every chance with a keen eye and looked

ahead of her with clear foresight What she waited and yearned for and

dreaded, was the time when a copy of the new "Herald" should be placed in

the tre hands of the man who lay in the Rouen hospital Then, she

felt, if he, unaware of her identity, should place everything in her hands

unreservedly, that would be a tribute to her work--and how hard she would

labor to deserve it! After a tian to realize that, as his

representative and the editor of the "Herald," she had become a factor in

district politics It took her breath--but with a gasp of delight, for

there was so she wanted to do