One broker wrote, "Please quote your terms for the following.

From nine to two o'clock each day our messenger will call at your office every hour for clippings giving information of the companies named below." The long list appended carried Roger's fancy out all over the continent.
And then came this injunction: "Remember that our messenger must leave your office every hour.

In information of this kind every minute counts." Clippings, clippings, clippings.

As Roger turned over his morning mail, in spite of himself he grew absorbed.

What a change in the world of literature.