The home
office is jumping mad, and want me discharged. They won't do
that, though," he said, in a cheerful aside, "because they
haven't paid me my salary for the last eight months. He
says--great Scott! this will please you, Gordon--he says that
there have been over two hundred queries for matter from
papers all over the United States, and from Europe. Your
paper beat them on the news, and now the home office is packed
with San Francisco reporters, and the telegrams are coming in
every minute, and they have been abusing him for not answering
them, and he says that I'm a fool. He wants as much as you
can send, and all the details. He says all the papers will
have to put `By Yokohama Cable Company' on the top of each
message they print, and that that is advertising the company,
and is sending the stock up. It rose fifteen points on
'change in San Francisco to-day, and the president and the
other officers are buying----"
"Oh, I don't want to hear about their old company," snapped
out Gordon, pacing up and down in despair. "What am I to do?
that's what I want to know. Here I have the whole country
stirred up and begging for news.
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