“There, that is my opinion of the situation. You may not agree with it but that is how I think.”
The editor read over the article carefully and then said with more spirit than he had yet betrayed:
“It is the thing in a nutshell. It is tersely put and carries conviction with every sentence. If it had been any longer or any shorter it would have failed of its purpose. I could not express myself any better if I wrote a column. It will go in just as it is and whenever I want an editorial written I shall call upon you.”
“May I read it?” asked Percival.
The editor passed the sheet over to the boy who read it most carefully and then said:
“Great, my boy! We have long wanted a good editor for our Academy paper and the position is yours. If I say so every boy in Hilltop will agree with me, so it is settled.”
CHAPTER X
AN INTERVIEW IN THE WOODS
Dick Percival was as good as his word and lost no time in telling the Hilltop boys that he had found an ideal editor for the monthly magazine conducted in the interests of the Academy and contributed to by the brightest minds among them.