I may be kept waiting here for weeks and weeks.

I do not like to turn out Palmer, although I very much want to go with the first bunch.

On the other hand I am paid pretty well to get to the front, and I am uncertain as to what I ought to do.

If the second column were to start immediately after the first, we then would have two men in the field, but if it does not, then Collier will be paying $1000.

a week for stories of tea houses and "festivals." Palmer threatens to resign if I take his place in the first column and that would be a loss to the paper that I do not feel I could make up.