e wreck, though the fact that the passenger was missing was an item of much interest, and he us

o come back to New York, as the best of the story was now in, and the Associated Press would attend to the rema

e operator to Larry, as the young reporter began

's t

w why he hadn't secured a list of passengers and the crew. The mes

e Larry. "I worked

he's gone out to get one of his own. But he's too late, I reckon. I'll have my hands full pretty s

y editor in seeing a possible situation, and rushing a man to the scene ahead of the other p

he Leader office the next day, for, not only had the young reporter secured

city editor, while the other reporters, crowding around the hero of the occasion, expressed, thei

rouble?" ask

Struck something rathe

men from other papers tr

in him all right. No, this was something else." And

I'd tell Mr. Emberg about it, and then you'll be in a position

puzzled over the matter a few minutes, and t

k," said Mr. Emberg, "and it may be this mystery will

itor realized in what a strange m

etings they had covered the previous night, and others were going out on assignments to police courts, to

shed their talk about the man at the hut. "I haven't given you much chance at anything in that l

like it," r

the wild scene of a rescue from a wreck, and the ne

of the trouble in that district. Thomas Kilburn is a new aspirant for the Assembly and he's fighting against the re-nomination of William Reilly.

o support. So far he has played foxy and no one knows, not even the candidates t

ome to be in the r

ivan wants something he thinks either Kilburn or Reilly can give him, and that's why he's holding back. He'll give his support to the man who, af

rry, a little doubt

t to nose out your news this time. A number of reporters have tried to pump Sullivan, but he won't give

Mr. Newton, as he passe

rview Su

wton w

being a newspaper man's term for failure). "We've all tried him, but he's as cute as an old

try," was L

Mr. Emberg sent him. Nearly all the other available men on the Leader were well known to the politicians, t

their guard, and they might let fall something that would make news, the city edito

the forenoon, when most persons would have been at work. But the men were politicians of more or less power, and had plenty of spare time. Besides this was really their wor

to be a reporter, or he would have been greeted by some of the men as soon as he e

decided to look about for a few minutes and size up the situation. No one paid any attention to h

did not know that the man he sought was in his private office, closeted wit

n's made up hi

asked anothe

. This seemed to be the very th

n who had first spoken, "but I underst

he district when they build the new line. If only Potter doesn't go back on his promise. He's so rich you can't touch him

ned and saw Larry. He at once knew hi

ou want, y

o see Mr.

that, he felt, would have brought him only a po

?" went o

sage for him,

me, I'll see t

aid, for a bold plan had come into