This page has been validated.
THE JOURNALISTS' EPISODE
II
The rising young journalist who had first got wind of the business—who must not for a moment be confused with the two emergency journalists heretofore described—came to Banghurst next night in a state of strange exultation. "I've been through with it and I've seen her," he panted. "I waited about outside and saw her taken into the carriage. I've talked to one of the maids—I got into the house under pretence of being a telephone man to see their telephone—I spotted the wire—and it's a fact. A positive fact she's a mermaid with a tail—a proper mermaid's tail. I've got here"
He displayed sheets.
"Whaddyer talking about?" said Banghurst from his littered desk, eyeing the sheets with apprehensive animosity.
79
