Under orders, the story of a young reporter . well give the race to Z and be done with it. But their thoughts seemed to be mostly of theirown disappointment. Poor Myles, almost stunnedby the clamor about him, could hardly hear thewords of pity for himself, and sympathy with hismisfortune, that were uttered here and there. Itseemed to him that they cared nothing for him orhis troubles, but thought only of what a loss hewould be to the crew. Thus thinking he could notbring himself to ask their help in secunng employ-ment, as he had intended ; and, though they were thefellows of his set, upon who
Under orders, the story of a young reporter . well give the race to Z and be done with it. But their thoughts seemed to be mostly of theirown disappointment. Poor Myles, almost stunnedby the clamor about him, could hardly hear thewords of pity for himself, and sympathy with hismisfortune, that were uttered here and there. Itseemed to him that they cared nothing for him orhis troubles, but thought only of what a loss hewould be to the crew. Thus thinking he could notbring himself to ask their help in secunng employ-ment, as he had intended ; and, though they were thefellows of his set, upon whom he depended foraid, he let one after another of them leave the roomwithout broaching the subject. At length the roomwas cleared and he was left alone. Not quite alone though. A fellow named VanCleef, whom Myles knew but slightly, and who wassuch a hard-^vorking student as to be termed theclass ^ dig, remained. As Myles turned and noticedhim for the first time Van Cleef said : I m awfully sorry for you, Manning, and you ET. >??? m. \ THE CAPTAIN OF THE CREW RESIGNS. 15 are heartily welcome to any thing I can do to helpyou. If you must go to work at once why not tryjournalism ? It is hard work, but it pays somethingfrom the very start, and that is more than can besaid of almost any other business. CHAPTER II. TRYIN^G TO BECOME A EEPORTER. T OURNALISM ! exclaimed Myles Manning, inI answer to Van Cleef s suggestion. Why, Inever thought of such a thing, and I dont know thefirst thing about it. To be sure, he added, reflect-ively, I have helped edit the college Oarsman^ andhave written one or two little things that got pub-lished in our country weekly out home; but I dontsuppose all that would help a fellow much in realjournalism. Here Myles looked up at his companion, hopingto hear him say that these things would go fartoward securing him a position on one of the bigdailies. But Van Cleef was too honest a fellow toraise false hopes in another, and he said: No; of course all tha
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