ight to the inner office where he saw Mr. Brooke pecking away at the
typewriter.

"Pretty busy now, Mr. Sheldon," said the little man, looking up for an
instant. "You'll have to excuse me."

"But I have brought the last of the copy for the _Gazette_. Shall I give
it to the foreman?"

"The last of it? Why, you sent it this morning and told us to go ahead
with the magazine."

"I sent you copy this morning?" exclaimed Jack in some surprise.

"Yes, this morning or early this afternoon. We set it up and they are
now running off----"

"But I sent you nothing, Mr. Brooke. You say they are running off the
paper now?"

"Yes, of course. You said you wanted it the first thing in the morning."

With a vague sense of apprehension that something was wrong and yet
unable to say why, Jack went out into the printing office and picked up
a newly printed sheet from a pile that lay in front of the press then
being worked.

The sheet was not folded and several pages of the matter were visible at
once.

Quickly glancing his eye over the sheet he suddenly came upon an article
on the first page which had no business there.

It was not more than four or five lines in length and was a bitter and
most scurrilous attack on Dr. Wise, signed "Jack Sheldon."

"Stop the press," cried Jack to the boy who was feeding the sheets.
"Stop the press! This thing must not go in!"

"Hey?" shouted the boy.

"Stop the press!" cried Jack and in a moment he had thrown off the belt
and the machine came to a standstill.

"What's the matter?" asked Mr. Brooke, missing the noise of the press
and coming out to learn the reason.

"This!" said Jack, pointing out the offensive article. "Did you allow
this to be set up, Mr. Brooke?"

"I? No, indeed. I did not know it was here. If you don't want it, why
did you send it in?"

"I did not. I am not in the habit of signing my nickname to things I
write. There was something else on this page and this rubbish has been
inserted in its place. You can see that there is a break somewhere. How
did you get this? Unlock the forms. It must be taken out at once. Where
are the proofs? It will be easy enough to get the right matter to put
back or it may be on one of the galleys."

While the press boy was looking for the missing type and the foreman was
unlocking the forms, Jack questioned Mr. Brooke regarding the orders to
hasten the printing of the magazine and the identity of the person who
had brought them.

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