You bet I was giving nothing away.

'I'd pay for it and pay well,' said he, 'if I could get some stuff that would suit my editor.' I said what I thought would please him best, and he handed me a twenty-dollar bill for my information.

'There's ten times that for you,' said he, 'if you can find me all that I want.'" "What did you tell him, then ?" "Any stuff I could make up." "How do you know he wasn't a newspaper man ?" "I'll tell you.

He got out at Hobson's Patch, and so did I.I chanced into the telegraph bureau, and he was leaving it.
"'See here,' said the operator after he'd gone out, 'I guess we should charge double rates for this.'-- 'I guess you should,' said I.He had filled the form with stuff that might have been Chinese, for all we could make of it.

'He fires a sheet of this off every day,' said the clerk.