editor were now in the latter's sanctum and not in the
main office so that there were no hearers to the conversation.

"International, not American?" asked the editor.

"Yes. Every one does not know the International but every local
telegrapher knows the American."

"Yes, but I don't see why----"

"If some unscrupulous person should send you a message purporting to
come from me you would know that it did not if my instructions were not
carried out, wouldn't you?"

"Certainly, but have you any apprehension that----"

"It is possible. I will let you know to-night. I do not want to
telephone and will flash you instead."

"Very good."

Jack then left the building, entered the car and in a quarter of an hour
was at the Academy.

He saw Harry and Arthur on the grounds and called to them to go with him
as soon as he put up the car.

The three went to Percival's room where they found the young fellow busy
over a Greek translation.

"Read this, you fellows," said Jack, distributing the printed sheets he
had brought up from the office of the _News_.

"But, I say, Jack!" exclaimed Percival. "You don't mean----"

"Why, this is positively awful!" gasped Harry.

"There will be no more _Gazettes_ after this," wailed Arthur.

"You don't imagine, any of you, that I wrote that?" asked Jack in his
coolest tone. "Here, let me have one of the sheets."

"But how did it get in then?"

"This is not the revised sheet. In the first place I do not sign my
articles 'Jack Sheldon,' do I?"

"I never knew that you did."

"And in the next a very careless compositor set this up. It is badly
spaced, has many errors and is ungrammatical."

"Yes, I can see that but I don't know anything about the spacing."

"It looks as if a green hand had set it up and that gives me an idea."

"Yes, but Jack, how did it get in at all?" asked Percival, still in the
dark regarding the article.

"It won't be in the paper to-morrow," and then Jack told of his
accidental discovery of the obnoxious article and what he had done about
it.

Percival thought a few minutes and said:

"Some one who doesn't like you has done this, Jack, or had it done. You
don't suspect Brooke?"

"No, for it would mean the loss of all our patronage to him. He is not
such a fool."

"No, of course not. Who is it then?"

"That I don't know. There was collusion with some one in the _News_
office, of course, and it will be difficult to find just where it comes
in. Thi