CHAPTER XVI.
A LESSON IN JOURNALISM.
Al laughed.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked.
"Read that interview with you in the Banner, and you'll find out. If you've been through half the startling adventures that the reporter says you have it is a wonder you are alive now."
Our hero opened the paper with a feeling of apprehension which proved to be well grounded.
Undoubtedly the interview would prove a good advertisement for the show, but it embarrassed Al greatly; he would gladly have given a hundred dollars to have been able to withdraw it. But it was too late for that now; already it had, doubtless, been read by half Rockton.
The reporter had not kept faith with him.
"If I say anything about your sister," he had told him, "it will only be a passing reference, couched in the most delicate terms."
But instead of that he had headed the article: