Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-14

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said Penny, with chuckle. MIR.
George Frederick has had his eye on
him for q twelve-month."
''I don't suppose you know how Mr..
George Frederick fell in with him?'
said the sub-editor, basking In Pennys
geniality.
"Nr. George Frederick told me every
think about him-everything?" said the
foreman, proudly. 1T was parson
that recommended him"
"a parson! calculated Umbrage, In
such a tone that If you had not caught
! the word you might have thought he
was saving, San outsiderm again.
eyes, a parson whose sermon this
Angus took down in shorthand l
fancy"
"What was he doing taking down a
sermon?" -,
II suppose he was there to hear 1t. "
"And this is the kind OF man who Is
taking to literature nowadays" UNI
bragg cried.
.'Oh, Mr.. George Frederick has heard
a great deal about him." continued
Penny, maliciously, land expects him
/ To do wonders. He's a self-made man. "
"Ohr said Umbrage, who could find
nothing to object to in that, having
risen from comparative obscurity HIM
self.
"Mr. George Frederick" Penny went
on, "offered him berth here before
Billy Tagg was engaged, but he could
not come"
81 SUPPOSE" said Juvenal, with the
sarcasm that made him terrible on Fri
DAYS, 1.-THE Times offered him something
better, or was it the Spectator that
wanted an editor?"
mo, it was family matters. His
brother or his sister, or-let me see, 1t
was his sisters child-was dependent
on him and could not be left. Some
thing happened to her, though. She's
| dead, think, so he a free man now.
Eyes, IL was his sisters child, and she
was found dead" said the sub-editor,
ION a mountain side, curiously enough,
with George Frederick's letter in her
hand offering Angus the appointment.
Protheroe was foolish to admit that
| he knew this for it was news to the
| foreman, but it tries man severely to
| have to listen TO news that he could tell
better himself. One immediate result
| OF the sub-editor'S rashness was that
/ Rob Angus sunk several stages IN Pen
ny's estimation.
| ~ dare say he'll turn ont muff," he
| said, and flung out OF the room with
/ another intimatlon that copy must be
cut down. ,
The evening wore on. Protheroe had
half dozen things to do at once, and
| did them.
Telegraph boys were dropping the
/ beginning Of Lord John Manners
| speech through a grating on to the sub
| editorial desk long before he had
reached the end of it at Nottingham.
The sub-editor had to revise this, as
| it arrived in flimsy, and write sum-
mary Of it at the same time. His sum-
mary was set before all the speech had
reached the office, which may seem
! strange. But when Penny cried aloud
! for summary, so that he might get that
/ column off his hands, ProtEeroe made
/ guesses at many things, and, risk
| ing, 1.-The right honorable gentle
man concluded his speech, which
was attentively listened TO, with some
I further references 10 current topics, j"
I flung Lord John TO the boy, who rushed
with him to Penney, from whose hand
he was snatched by compositor. Eff
/ teen minutes afterwards Lord John con-
cluded his speech at Nottingham.
About $3.50 Protheroe seized his hat
and rushed home for supper. In the
passage he nearly knocked himself over
| bv running against the young man in
/ the big topcoat. Umbrage went out to
| see if he could gather any information
about the prize fight. John Milton came
| in with a notice Of a concert, which he
stuck conspicuously on the Chief
reporters file. When the chief report
or came in he glanced through 1t and
| made few alterations, changing, "Mr.
/ Joseph Grimes sang out Of tune, for in
| instance, to Mr.. Grimes, the favorite
vocalist, was in excellent voice" The
concert was not quite over yet, either
they seldom waited for the end OF any
thing on the Mirror
When Umbrage returned, Billy Kirk
err, the chief reporter, was denouncing
John Milton for not being able to tell
him how 10 spell deceive"
''What is the use of you" he asked,
Indignantly, 'if you can't do simple
thing like that?'
"Say cheat, suggested Umbrage.
So Kirker wrote "cheat Though
he was the chief of the Mirrors report
ing department, he had only Umbrage
and John Milton under him.
As Klrker sat in the reporters room
looking over his diary, with cigarette
in his mouth, he was an advertisement
for the Mirror, and If he paid for his
velvet coat out of his salary, the paper
was in a healthy financial condition.
He was tall, twenty-five gears OF age,
and extremely slight. His manner was
languid, though his language was some
times forcible; but those who knew him
did not think him mild. This evening
his fingers looked bare without the dia-
mond ring that sometimes adorned them.
This ring, it was noticed. generally dis
appeared about the middle Of the
month and the scarfpin followed it
by the 2lst With the beginning Of the
month they reappeared together. The
literary staff was paid monthly.
Mr.. Licquorish looked in at the door
of the reporters room to ask pleasantly
if they would not like a fire. Had
Protheroe been there he would have
said mo-" but Billy Kirker said Eyes"
Mr.. Licquorish had thought that Proth-
eroe was there.
This was the first fire in the report
ers' room that season, and it smoked,
Kirker left it alone, flung up the win
dow, and gradually became aware that
some one with a heavy tread was walk
ing up and down the alley. He whis-
tied gently in case it should be a friend
Of his own, but, getting no response,
resumed his work. Mr.. LicquOrish also
heard the footsteps, but though he was