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"Will it succeed?"

"Oh, no!" he laughed

"You think not?" Her interest in this dull business struck hi, and yet in character with her as he had known her in

Plattville Then he wondered unhappily if she thought that talking of the

"Herald" and learning things about the working of a country newspaper

would help her to understand Brainard Macauley

"Why have you let hio on with it?" she asked "I suppose you have

encouraged hied him The creature's recklessness fascinated '"

"You think there is no chance for the creature's succeeding with the

daily?"

"None," he replied indifferently

"You ain "I believe hi e,' wherein he presents to the

Carlow fe currant jelly, three

receipts for the concoction of salads, and directs the ladies how to

manufacture a pretty work-basket out of odd scraps in twentypart of it is that he has not yet been mobbed by the women who

have followed his directions"

"So you think the daily is aidiot

should behie'"

"It is all wrong, you think?"

"What could a Yankee six-footer cousin of old Fisbee's know about currant

jelly and work-baskets?"