"Perhaps Ferguson would take me in?" said Harry.
"I should be glad to do so; but I don't know that my humble fare would be good enough for an editor."
Harry smiled. "I won't put on airs," he said, "till my commission is made out."
"I am afraid that I can't offer high pay for your services in that capacity," said Mr. Anderson.
"I shall charge nothing, sir," said Harry, "but thank you for the opportunity of entering, if only for a short time, a profession to which it is my ambition to belong."
After a brief consultation with his wife, Mr. Anderson appointed Harry editor pro tem., and began to make arrangements for his journey. Harry's weekly wages were raised to fifteen dollars, out of which he waa to pay Ferguson four dollars a week for board.
So our hero found himself, at nineteen, the editor of an old established paper, which, though published in a country village, was not without its share of influence in the county and State.
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE YOUNG EDITOR.
The next number of the Centreville "Gazette" contained the following notice from the pen of Mr. Anderson:—