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py first, would you?" Melville suggested. "No, siree! That'll be the fun. They must go it blind. We'll make the whole thing as spooky and mysterious as we can. Nobody shall know what he is going to eat. It will be twice the sport." "But suppose after you've collected all your money you find you can't get any one to print the paper?" "We'll have to take a chance," replied Paul instantly. "If worst comes to worst we can give the money back again. But I shan't figure on doing that. We'll win out, Cart; don't you worry." [Illustration: "_The March Hare!_" he repeated with enthusiasm. "You've hit it, Cart!" _Page 10_.] "Bully for you, old man! You sure are a sport. Nothing like selling something that doesn't even exist! I see you years hence on Wall Street, peddling nebulous gold mines and watered stocks." "Oh, shut up, can't you!" laughed Paul good-naturedly. "Quit your joshing! I'm serious. You've got to help me, too. You must start in landing subscriptions to-morrow." "I! I go around rooting for your _March Hare_ when I know that not a line of it has seen printer's ink!" sniffed Melville. "Sure!" Melville grinned. "Well, you have a nerve!" he affirmed. "You're going to do it just the same, Cart." There was a compelling, magnetic quality in Paul Cameron which had won for him his leadership at school; it came to his aid in the present instance. Melville looked for a second into his chum's face and then smiled. "All right," he answered. "I'm with you, Kipper. We'll see what we can do toward fooling the public." "I don't mean to fool them," Paul retorted. "I'm in dead earnest. I mean to get out a good school paper that shall be worth the money people pay for it. There shall be no fake about it. To-morrow I shall call a class meeting and we'll elect an editorial staff--editor-in-chief, publicity committee, board of managers, and all the proper dignitaries. Then we'll get right down to work." Melville regarded his friend with undisguised admiration. "You'll make it a go, Kip!" he cried. "I feel it in my bones now. Hurrah for the _March Hare_! I can hear the shekels chinking into our pockets this minute. Put me down for the first subscription. I'll break the ginger-ale bottle over the treasury." "Shall it be a dollar, a dollar and a quarter, or an out and out one-fifty?" "Oh, put it at one-fifty. We're all millionaires and we may as well go in big while we're at it. What is one-fifty
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