Robert Welles Ritchie

Name: A Hole in the Make-up
Author: Robert Welles Ritchie

A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

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“A Hole in the Make-up”, published in 1913, is a work by Robert Welles Ritchie. It explores elements such as McFadden, Silver Lake and Holmes.

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ But Holmes’ brain had no such ease-hunting slant. In the profession he was “a live wire”; no man in the whole city was quite as quick in smelling out a real live story and getting it into type.
McFadden began to bark at him before Holmes was inside the door. “It’s true,” he said. “That tip we got from the New York office! The Old Man’s here, and he’s coming over to rake us some time this afternoon—probably just about the time I’m making up the three o’clock.”
“Well, what about it?” Holmes was a man who steadfastly refused to get excited. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ McFadden, I guess you may kill that Silver Lake story from the front page,” he said, in his suavest tone. “If it leaves a big hole in the make-up, why, throw in that knock on the police you were holding over for a later edition; knocks on the police are always good display stories. And, Mr. McFadden, you might slip that diver an extra fifty to keep his mouth shut.”
Mr. Wrandolph went back to his hotel. Two hours later Meacham came in. Holmes had him by the lapels of his coat before he was three feet from the office door, and was dragging him into McFadden’s cubby-hole. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ McFadden turned a blank face to Holmes.
“Meacham says that Silver Lake’s a bum pond—four feet in the deepest place. The diver can’t dive because he’s got nothing to dive into. Says there isn’t any golf club anywhere around—lake’s half a mile from the nearest swell residence, and there’s four men from a slaughterhouse standing on the shore guying ’em. That’s the kind of a swell sheet of water Silver Lake is. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ Wrandolph, Meacham says they’re going over the lake,” was McFadden’s cheering bulletin. “Says a motor boat has her searchlight directed on the scene of the diving—yes, wealthy man volunteered to assist with his motor boat. Yes, he’s sent flash lights of the diver on the way to the office already. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ Wrandolph trailing him to hang over his desk while he picked out the master word necromancer on his assignment sheet to do the story.
“We want a man who can see the heart interest in this thing, Mr. Holmes,” came the excited pur over the city editor’s shoulder. “We want a word picture—still waters of the lake there on the edge of the golf grounds—move the lake over to the golf grounds if it don’t happen to be too far away ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ Wrandolph,” came McFadden’s soothing interjection. “It’s an hour’s run out to the place.”
“Can’t wait for a regular train then,” snapped the owner of newspaper play things. “Dig up a special—engine and flat car, or engine and baggage car—to get out of Northwestern depot in an our. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ The managing editor had dropped his fighting voice, and he was speaking slowly, seriously, like a man who weighs the ultimate chance of success and failure in a big venture. “The Old Man’s here for just one purpose. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ Holmes nodded his head and called Meacham to the desk. To the dazed reporter the owner of the Trumpet went all over again the burnished points of the story he wanted, pounding emphasis with his lean forefinger against the edge of the city editor’s desk. McFadden came out from his office to say that he had engaged a diver over the telephone. The diver would be at the Northwestern station with his outfit at five o’clock.
“Five o’clock!” Mr. Wrandolph lifted his voice in outraged protest. “Why, it’s only two o’clock now. Why five?”
“First train to Silver Lake is at five, you see, Mr. ”

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Robert Welles Ritchie, A Hole in the Make-up (1913)

“ Says he saw it when he was coming over on the ferry this morning—swell clothes, he says—body lying on a rock about twenty feet below the surface—water so clear he could even see the face and long hair straggling out behind. He didn’t tip the coroner, but trotted right around here to give us the story. Listens good. ”

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