New life followed in the wake of the boy as he carried the paper from door to door.

It began at the corner of Main and Cross Streets, and as the boy proceeded, the merchants, the loafers, and the customers came from the stores and gathered in knots that formed quickly and dissolved again as the parts passed from one group to another, questioning, arguing, and guessing.

The attorney looked out of his window.

Across the street he could see the office of the TIMES, and T.
J.already besieged by questioners, to whom he was evidently giving a kind but decided refusal of further information.

The editor was waving them away with his hands.