For a moment there was a silence. Larry looked all around on a circle of smiling faces.
“What does it mean?” he asked of the city editor.
“It means that from now on you’re a regular reporter on this paper,” replied Mr. Emberg. “We’re proud of you, Larry, and this is the only way we can show it. You’ve earned your advance if anyone ever did. The work you did at the flood, particularly in scoring the big beat, and the other things you’ve done, prove that you are a real newspaper man, which is a rare sort of an individual. Let me congratulate you.”
He shook hands with Larry, who was blushing like a girl.
And that was how Larry Dexter rose from a copy boy to be a regular reporter. Of his further adventures, and he had many, you may read in the next volume of this series which will be called “Larry Dexter, Reporter; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City.” There will be told of how he went on in his chosen field, and how he made a name and fame for himself and his paper, and also of how he again brought to light the old deed for land in the Bronx and found it of great value.
“Let’s all shake hands with Larry,” called one of the reporters, and they filed up and gave their best wishes to the former copy boy.
And here we will leave Larry for the present, wishing him well.
THE END
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