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 fice and telling the city editor what he unreservedly thought about the whole dirty business.

"I'll go back and say, 'See here, White' (I won't call him 'mister'). 'What do you take me for, White? What do you take me for? Do you think I am going to do this sort of thing? Well, you're mistaken. I'll tell you, once for all, I'll be damned if I do.'" And he became quite hot and excited telling himself how little he would care at being discharged, and how much better offers he had had to do better things, etc., until the "L" guard called out his station.

Then he got out and wiped his brow, and reminded himself that he had no intention of making any such fool of himself as that. He had often felt like resigning before, and had always been glad he hadn't.

"All I shall have to do," he remarked to himself, "is to fall down on this assignment and one or two more as badly as I did last week, and I shall be allowed to resign fast enough without any grand-stand remarks." Meanwhile, he would have to get the facts of this story because he couldn't very well