, he at
least gave no sign; instead he took Paul's hand, remarking gravely:

"I am glad to know you, Cameron," upon the receipt of which courtesy
Cameron rose fully two inches in his boots and declared with equal
fervor:

"I am glad to meet you too, Mr. Hawley."

To have seen them one would have thought they had been boon companions
at press club dinners or associates in newspaper work all their days.
"I'm going to take you upstairs first," Mr. Hawley said briskly. "We may
as well begin at the beginning and show you how type is set. I don't
know whether you have ever seen any type-making and typesetting machines
or not."

"I haven't seen anything," Paul confessed frankly.

The newspaper man looked both amused and pleased.

"I'm rather glad of that," he remarked, "for it is much more interesting
to explain a process to a person to whom it is entirely new. Formerly
the method of setting type for the press was a tedious undertaking and
one very hard on the eyes; but now this work is all done, or is largely
done, by linotype machines that place in correct order the desired
letters, grouping them into words and carefully spacing and punctuating
them. The linotype operator has before him a keyboard and as he presses
the keys in succession, the letter or character necessary drops into its
proper place in the line that is being made up. These letters are then
cast as they stand in a solid, one-line piece. With the lines thus made
up, the compositors are relieved of a great proportion of their labor.
Later I will show you how this is done.

"In the composing room there is also the monotype, another ingenious
invention, which produces single letters and prepares them for
casting. With two such machines you might suppose that the compositor
would have little to do. Nevertheless, in spite of each of these
labor-saving devices, there are always odd jobs to be done that cannot
be performed by either of these agencies; there are short articles, the
making up and designing of pages, advertisements, and a score of things
outside the scope of either linotype or monotype."

Paul listened attentively.

"After the words have been formed and the lines cast by the linotype,
the separate lines are arranged by the compositors inside a frame the
exact size of the page of the paper to be printed. This frame or form as
we call it, is divided into columns and after all the lines of type, the
cuts, and advertisements to be used are arrang