“Not if I can help it.”
“Perhaps you’d better take someone with you. I can send one of the men.”
“If I take anyone I think I’d rather have Larry,” said Mr. Newton. “He can run the copy to the telegraph office, he knows how to use the telephone, and he’ll keep his ears and eyes open for news. Larry will do first-rate.”
“Then you can take him,” said the city editor. “I guess his sister is in no danger now. I’ll find out.”
Larry hardly knew what to say when the city editor proposed that he accompany Mr. Newton.
“I’d like to go,” he said, “if I only knew——”
“I’ll send you word about your sister every day,” said Mr. Emberg, guessing what bothered Larry.
“Then I’ll go,” said the boy.