By Wednesday night the equipment was fully installed and the workmen departed, leaving only Jim McGaffey, an experienced pressman, and Lawrence Doanefamiliarly called Larrywho was to attend to the electrotyping and "make-up."

They said the machine was so complicated it required an expert, and unless an experienced pressman could be secured the paper must suspend publication.

"Our pressman has deserted us without warning," explained Mr. Merrick.

" "Then we'll lose our pressman," declared Beth; "for I'm positive that Thursday Smith was a person of some importance in his past life.

" "A cut wire may be repaired," suggested the pressman, and even as he spoke Joe Wegg came in, accompanied by the two detectives and the major.

The "pressman" was now the man-of-all-work about the modest but trim little publishing plant.

You uncover a rogue or a man of affairs, and in either case you will lose your pressman.

CHAPTER XXIII THE JOURNALISTS ABDICATE Mr. Merrick told Thursday Smith, in an apologetic way, how he had hired Fogerty to unravel the mystery of his former life, and how the great detective had gone to work so intelligently and skillfully that, with the aid of a sketch Hetty had once made of the pressman, and which Mr. Merrick sent on, he had been able to identify the man and unearth the disagreeable details of his history.

The first daily papers printed in St. Paul were not conducted or a very gigantic scale, as the entire force of one office generally consisted of one pressman, five or six compositors, two editors and a business manager.

The late John O. Terry was the first hand pressman in St. Paul.

Let the merchant cease to sell, let the consumer cease from buying, let the workman cease from working, let the butcher cease from killing, let the baker cease from baking, let everything keep holiday, even to the National Printing Office, so that Louis Bonaparte may not find a compositor to compose the Moniteur, not a pressman to machine it, not a bill-sticker to placard it!

By the way, Anerley, you've never been under fire before, have you?" "Never," said the young pressman, who was conscious of a curious feeling of nervous elation.

The law-abiding Briton is so imbued with the idea of the sanctity of human life that it was hard for the young pressman to realise that these men had every intention of killing him, and that he was at perfect liberty to do as much for them.

But the camel was on its legs now, and the young pressman was safely seated upon one of the fliers of the desert.

As regards more particularly the Dreyfus business, the French, with a sensitiveness that can be understood, have all along deprecated anything in the way of foreign interference, and the English Pressman of inquiring mind on the subject has more than once met with a rebuff from those in a position to give information.

"Blow me if it ain't the bally pressman!" said Long Jim, stopping within a hundred feet and peering through the tree.

Yet while I sit as a prophetic amateur weighing these impalpable forces of will and imagination and habit and interest in lawyer, pressman, maker and administrator, and feeling by no means over-confident of the issue, it dawns upon me suddenly that there is another figure present, who has never been present before in the reckoning up of British affairs.

But they were small, were worked by hand, and were so slow that the most expert pressman using one of them could not have printed so much in three working days as a modern steam press can run off in five minutes.

It would create a sensation in that unserene assembly which would almost be enough to make a seasoned pressman swoon, and before the incident had been completely realised the unexpected and startling fact would probably be known at the Antipodes.

He stepped gently through the crowd, searching, and found John Rann, the pressman.

Now it happens that I'm going to put a press in my new business and I'm looking for a first-class crackerjack of a pressman.

A pressman spied Joe and loosed a yell: "It's the old man!" His press stopped; his neighbors' presses stopped; as the yell went down the room, "Joe!

Vignette Croome Anderson Henry J. Crate, Pressman.

The Wayward pressman.

Mink and red herring: the wayward pressman's casebook.