“You don’t imagine, any of you, that I wrote that?” asked Jack in his coolest tone. “Here, let me have one of the sheets.”
“But how did it get in then?”
“This is not the revised sheet. In the first place I do not sign my articles ’Jack Sheldon,’ do I?”
“I never knew that you did.”
“And in the next a very careless compositor set this up. It is badly spaced, has many errors and is ungrammatical.”
“Yes, I can see that but I don’t know anything about the spacing.”
“It looks as if a green hand had set it up and that gives me an idea.”
“Yes, but Jack, how did it get in at all?” asked Percival, still in the dark regarding the article.
“It won’t be in the paper to-morrow,” and then Jack told of his accidental discovery of the obnoxious article and what he had done about it.
Percival thought a few minutes and said: