DOI article:
Thompson, Charles Miner: In an American newspaper
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214 In an American Newspaper Office
you investigate ? Instead of that, like a fool, you rushed off to
Master’s room, did you, and left that in the paper. Didn’t you
know any better than to rush off to that besotted hound ? ”
“ You don’t think, do you,” cried Hunt, “ that I was going to
let him kill himself if I could help it ? ”
“That was none of your business,” retorted Conant. “You
should have investigated. You’re responsible for what goes into
the paper. You don’t think, do you, that I hired you as Master’s
keeper ? ”
“ No,” cried Hunt, “ I don’t—Cain.”
Conant paid no attention. The bell rang and the copy-box
clattered down with the proof of Conant’s editorial article.
Conant jumped for it, and looked through it rapidly. “ Here,”
he said to Somers, “ scratch out what’s said about the April fool,
and add a few words about the death : say, the most charitable
view is that his lies were the result of insanity. And send a
revised proof to all the papers.”
you investigate ? Instead of that, like a fool, you rushed off to
Master’s room, did you, and left that in the paper. Didn’t you
know any better than to rush off to that besotted hound ? ”
“ You don’t think, do you,” cried Hunt, “ that I was going to
let him kill himself if I could help it ? ”
“That was none of your business,” retorted Conant. “You
should have investigated. You’re responsible for what goes into
the paper. You don’t think, do you, that I hired you as Master’s
keeper ? ”
“ No,” cried Hunt, “ I don’t—Cain.”
Conant paid no attention. The bell rang and the copy-box
clattered down with the proof of Conant’s editorial article.
Conant jumped for it, and looked through it rapidly. “ Here,”
he said to Somers, “ scratch out what’s said about the April fool,
and add a few words about the death : say, the most charitable
view is that his lies were the result of insanity. And send a
revised proof to all the papers.”