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 something like that. It's a beastly lot of copy to get slumped, you know."

"Nohow," said Banghurst. "Not in any shape. No! Why! They'd think it clever. They'd think you was making game of them. They hate things they think are clever!"

The young man made as if to reply, but Banghurst's back expressed quite clearly that the interview was at an end.

"Nohow," repeated Banghurst just when it seemed he had finished altogether.

"I may take it to the Gunfire then?"

Banghurst suggested an alternative.

"Very well," said the young man, heated, "the Gunfire it is."

But in that he was reckoning without the editor of the Gunfire.