Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 163: what you’re looking at

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154 GUY HAMMERSLEY. a long list of advertisements to select from,” suggested Harold. “I found one the Madderns left here. Would you like to see it?” ‘‘Ves, trotit out. The more the merrier.” So Harold brought the paper, but none noticed at the time that one particular sheet he separated froma the rest, folded it up and stuffed it into his pocket. Ward took the paper and immediately became ab- sorbed in its perusal. ButGuy remarked that he was not reading the ‘‘ Help Wanted—Male” pages, and was therefore considerably surprised when the British youth suddenly brought one hand down on the table with an emphatic slap and exclaimed: ‘‘ I’ve got it. That's the easiest way to make money I’ve heard of yet!” ‘‘Hush, my dear brub, not so loud,” cautioned Ruth, with a glance toward the sick chamber. Then she added: ‘‘ What is that easy way of making a fortune you have discovered ?” ‘‘Writing jokes for the comic papers.” answered Ward. ‘‘ Here’s an article telling all about it. And only think! For just a little bit of a dialogue of two lines sometimes, aman gets a dollar. It can’t take more than five minutes at the most to scribble off one ot these. Now in a working day of eight hours there are—I say, Harold, you’re just fresh from school, how many five minutes are there in that length of time?” ‘‘ Ninety-six,” answered Harold, after an instant of mental calculation. ‘‘Good,” went on the enthusiastic Ward, his face flushing with the inspiration of hope. ‘‘A dollar Gomicbooks (€(@) m