Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-01

morning, and then she spoke to 1t as II
he were sitting there and as she would
not have spoken had he been sitting
there.
You didn't want gratitude, did
you!. she whispered. with sad lips.
Soon she smiled at the blue ribbon,
patted the chair gayly on the back and,
Selling upon pencil and pad, dashed
into her work with rare energy. She
bent low over The desk. her pencil NOV
! ing rapidly She seemed loath to pause
sheets when lfisbee returned, and as
he came in softly in order not to dis
turb her she was SO deeply engrossed
| that she did not hear him, nor did she
look up when Parker entered. but pur-
sued the formulation Of her fast flying
ideas with the same single purpose
! and abandon So the two men sat and
waited while their chieftainess wrote
absorbedly. AT last she glanced up
and made little startled exclamation
at seeing them there and then gave
them CHEEKY greeting Each placed
she, having first, assured herself that
| Fisbee had bought his overshoes, and
| having expressed fear that Mr.. Par
ker had found her umbrella too small,
as he looked damp (and indeed he was
damp, cried praises on their notes and
offered the reporters great applause.
ut is all SO splendid" she cried.
"How could yo,l do 1t so quickly? And
in the rain toD! 1t is just what we
need I've done most of the things
mentioned, l think. and made a draft
of some plans for hereafter. Doesn't
it seem to you that it would be good
notion to have womans page-'For
Feminine Readers or OF Interest to
Women'--once q week r
"A woman's page" exclaimed Fis-
bee. Il could never have thought of
that. Could YOU. Mr.. Parker?"
Before that day was over system had
been introduced, and the Herald was
running on it, and all that warm rainy
afternoon the editor and Fisbee work
ed in the editorial rooms Parker and
Bud and Mr.. Scllofield latter his return
with the items and courteous mes
sage from Eph'aim Watts bent over
the forms downstairs, and Uncle Xeno-
phon was cleaning the stcreroom and
scrlbbing the floor An extraordinary
number of errnnds took the various
members of the printing force up to
see the editor 10 chief, literally to see
the editor in chief 1t was hard to be-
lieve that the presence had not flown,
hard to keep believing without the re-
peated testimony of sight that the din
gy room upstairs was actually the set
ting for their jewel, and jewel they
swore she was The printers came
down chucklins, and gurgling after
each interview 1t was partly the
thought that she belonged to the Her
aid. their paper. Once Ross, chuckling,
looked UP and caught the foreman gig
Cling to himself.
What in the name of common sense
you laughin' at, Cale?" he asked.
"What are you laughing at?' re-
Joined the other
II dunno."
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side, but all within the Herald's bosom
was snug and busy and murmurous
with the healthy thrum Of life and |
renewed. Toward 6 o'clock,
system accomplished, the new guiding
spirit was celebrating ON policy, as
HAIRLESS would conceive policy We're
he there, when Minnie Briscoe ran Joy
cusly up the stairs, plunged into the
room waterproofed and radiant and
caught her friend in her eager arms
and put an end to policy for that day.
But policy and labor did not end at
twilight every day. There We're even
ings, as in the time of HAIRLESS, when
lamps shone from the upper windows
of the Herald building; for the little
editor worked hard. and sometimes she
worked late: she always worked early.
She made some mistakes at first and
one or two blunders which she took
much more seriously than any one else
did But she found remedy for all
such results of her inexperience, and
she developed experience. She set at
her task with the energy of her youth
fulness and no limit to her ambition,
and she felt that Harkless had pre-
pared the way for wide expansion Of
the papers interests, wider then he
knew. She brought fresh point of
view to operate i'll a situation where he
lad fallen perhaps too much in the rut,
md she watched every chance with
Keen eye and looked ahead of her with
lear foresight. What she waited and
earned for and dreaded was the time
when copy of the new Herald should
'e placed in the trembling hands of the
nan who lay in the Rouen hospital
Then she felt il he, unaware of her
IDENTIFY as he wa. and as he was to be
,ept, should place everything in her
lands unreservedly, that would be
ribute to her work. And how hard she
would labor to deserve it!
After time she began to see that as
lis representative and editor of the
lerald she had become factor in dis
riot politics 1t took her breath, but .
With gasp Of delight, for there was
she wanted to do.
Rodney McCune had lifted his head,
nd the friends of his stricken enemy {
cit that they and the cause that Hark-
ass had labored for were lost with '
ut the leader, for the old ring that the .
ierald had beaten rallied around Nc
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