It really won't.

You'd better go into some other kind of business, Mr.Stack." Then Stack took his manuscript and went home to fix it up so as to make the story run together better.

The _Patriot_ will not publish it even if Stack reconstructs it.
* * * * * Major Slott, like most other editors, is continually persecuted by bores, but recently he was the victim of a peculiarly dastardly attack from a person of this class.

While he was sitting in the office of the _Patriot_, writing an editorial about "Our Grinding Monopolies," he suddenly became conscious of the presence of a fearful smell.

He stopped, snuffed the air two or three times, and at last lighted a cigar to fumigate the room.