The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

''Yes," said he. "You don't seem to
appreciate the beauty Of our scoop. It's
pyramidal-the death of the sea SER
pent! Good heavens alive man, it's the
biggest thing ever vouchsafed to paperW
Curious to think that it will never ap-
pear in any paper, isn't it?n said.
Zuyland was near me. and he nodded
quickly.
what do you mean ?" said Keller.
eff you're enough Of an unenterpris-
ing Britisher to throw this thing away,
! shan't. thought you were newspaper
man."
II am. That's why / know. Don't
slop over Keller. Remember I'm 700
years your senior, and what your grand
children may know 500 years hence,
learned from my grandfather about 500
years ago. You won't do it because, be-
cause you can't"
This conversation was held in an open
sea, where everything seems possible,
some hundred miles from South pamton.
We passed the Needles light at dawn, and
the lifting day showed the stucco villas on
the green and the awful orderliness of
England-llne upon line, wall upon wall,
solid stone dock and monolithic pier. We
waited an hour in the customs shed, and
there was ample time for the effect to soak
'rNow. Keller, You face the music. The
Havel goes out today. Mail in her. and
I'll take you to the telegraph Office"
said.
heard Keller gasp as the influence of
the land closed about him. cowing him as
they say Newmarket heath cows a young
horse unused to open country.
II want to retouch my stuff Suppose
we wait till We get TO London ?" he said.
Zuyland, by the way. had torn up his
account and thrown it overheard that
morning early.
In the train Keller began to revise his
copy and every time that he looked at the
trim little fields, the red villas and the
embankments Of the track, the blue pencil
plunged remorselessly through the slips.
lie appeared To have dredgeo the diction-
airy Tor adJectiyes. | could find none that
he had not. Yet he was perfectly sound
poker player and never showed more cards
than were sufficient TO take the pool
Aren't you going to leave him single
below, asked, alphabetically. RE
member, everything goes in the states,
from trouser button to a double eagle"
hats just the curse of it," said
Keller below his breath. We've PLAYED
EN- for suckers so often that when it comes
to the golden truth--I'd like to try this
on London paper. You have first call
there, though"
Not in the least. I'm not touching the
thing in the papers. shall be happy to
leave EN- all to you; but surely you'll
cable it home,"
mo. Not if l can make the scoop here
and see the Britishers sit up"
You won't do it with three columns of
slushy headline, believe me-"
u IN beginning TO think that, too. Does
nothing make any difference in this coun-
try?" he said, looking out of the window,
How old is that farm housed"
New. 1t can't be more than 200 years
at the most"
''Um. Fields, too2"
That hedge there must have been clip
PED Tor about eight years"
Labor cheap-eh2"
Pretty much. Well, l suppose you'd
Ike to try the Times, wouldn't your"
NO, said Keller, looking at Winchester
Cathedral. Might as well try TO electrify
hay-rlck. And TO think that any New
ork paper would take three columns and
ask for more-with illustrations, too! It's
sickening."
But the Times might" began.
Keller dung his paper across the car
rage, and 1t opened in its austere majesty
OF solid type-opened With the crackle of
an encyclopedia.
Might You might work your way
through the bow-.plates OF cruiser. Look
at that first page!"
1T strikes you that way. does it?" /
said. Then I'd recommend you to try
light and frivolous journal"
with thing like this of mine-of ours?
Its sacred historyw
l showed him q paper which I con-
celved would he after his own heart. in
that il was modelled on American lines.
That's honey" he said, "but it's not
the real thing. No, | should like one of
these fist Old Times columns Probably
there'd be bishop in the Office"
When We reached London Keller disar-
peared in the direction of the Strand
WHAT his experiences may have been |
cannot tell, pat il seems that he invaded
the ONCE Of an evening paper at Has a
M. ii told him English editors were most
Idle al that hourl, and mentioned my name
as that OF witness 10 the truth of ms
story.
i was nearly fred out" he said furi-
ousiy a. lunch. las soon as | mentioned
yo1 the old man said that I was to tell
you that they didn't want anv more of
your practical jokes. and that you knew
the hours 70 call if you had anything to
sell and thar they'd see you condemned
before they helped to puff one OF your in
teElS4 yarns II advance. Say what rec