"You!" said the magician, rather incredulously.
"I have been the editor for the last two months."
"You—a boy!"
"I am nineteen, professor."
"I shouldn't have dreamed of editing a paper at nineteen; or, indeed, as old as I am now."
Harry laughed.
"You are too modest, professor. Let me show you our last two issues."
The professor took out his glasses, and sat down, not without considerable curiosity, to read a paper edited by one who only three years before had been his assistant.
"Did you write this article?" he asked, after a pause, pointing to the leader in the last issue of the "Gazette."
"Yes, sir."