Howard R. Garis

“ What are you doing?”
“I am giving the reporter from the Leader an account of the wedding,” replied Clarice, with a smile.
“How far have you gone with it?” asked her mother. “If you do as you usually do, you have asked more questions than you have answered.”
“I was only asking about a reporter's life,” spoke the girl. “It's perfectly lovely. They see murdered people——”
“Clarice, you must not talk so!” exclaimed her mother. “Now, you run upstairs, and I'll tell the young man about the wedding.”
Pouting a little the girl went out, nodding and smiling at Larry. ”

“ Larry's first assignment when he reached the office was to get an account of a wedding that had occurred the night before. There are two assignments reporters hate to cover, weddings and obituaries, and Larry, in his brief experience, had come to feel much as did all other members of his profession about these things. But, just as a reporter never shrinks from danger in gettting a story for his paper (if he is a real reporter, and not a pretended one) , so none of them ever “kick,” at least to their city editor, when they get a disagreeable assignment. ”

“ So convinced, at first, was he that this would be the best plan, that, before he finished dressing, he sat down, and began to write out an advertisement to “Blue Hand,” that he could put in the paper to give notice the deed would be signed. ”