st enough when the first issue
goes out in November, we will have two or three million
circulation anyway by the first of the year.

"I _know_ we will now, even if I have ever had any doubts of
it before. I know, because we have a new scheme that simply
_cannot fail_. I can't tell you just what it is in this
letter, because I don't altogether understand it myself yet,
but Van does, and Perny, for it is Van's scheme this time,
and Perny helped him work it out. We are going to 'spring'
it on Barry to-morrow night, and it simply beats the premium
idea to death, so Perny says, and he didn't sleep a wink all
night thinking about it, nor Van either, and they have been
explaining it to each other all day until I don't know
'where I'm at'; but they do, and they are sitting outside
now, smoking and figuring up how many people there are in
the world who read English. It is called CASH FOR NAMES, and
will catch them all,--every one,--so Perny says; and as soon
as we get it type-written I will send you a copy, so you can
see just how great it is.

"And now, Dorry dear, I haven't told you anything at all,
though I have written a long letter, and there is so much
you would rather hear than all the things I have said. When
I write I only think of you, Dorry, and how I hunger to see
your beautiful face, and how long the time will be until I
shall take you in my arms and never let you go again. Oh,
sweetheart, I never, _never_ could give you up, unless, of
course, something dreadful should happen, such as my going
blind or being run over and half killed by a cable car, or
if the paper should fail and wreck us all, which I know
can't happen now. I have thought I ought to, sometimes, for
your sake, but I know now I never could have done it, for,
sleeping or waking, I am, Dorothy, through all eternity,
your

"TRUE."

VI

CASH FOR NAMES

The air was charged with a burden of mystery and moment when the three
who strove together in rooms near Union Square joined the man who did
something in an editorial way at the latter's office, and proceeded with
him to the Grand Union restaurant.

"We have a tale to unfold that will make your hair curl," said Perner,
as they stepped out on the lighted street. "Van has had an inspiration.
Premiums are not in it with this!"

"