I dropped The Journal altogether, and begged him to represent me as a literary light of the finest color.

This he did in a very strong letter to Daschoff, and I presented it this morning, but the Minister, like Edison, said he would let me know when he could see me.

Then I wrote Breck a letter of thanks so elegant and complimentary that he answered with another, saying if his first failed he would try again.
That means he is for me, and at the bureau they say whichever one he insists on will get in, but they also say he is so good-natured that he helps every one who comes.

I told him this, and he has promised to continue in my behalf as soon as we hear from Daschoff.
The second thing of importance is the getting the story, IF WE GET IT, on the wire.

That, I am happy to say, we are as assured of as I could hope to be.