By this time they had reached the "Clarion" Building.
"Come in, Dad," invited Hal, "and we'll talk to Ellis about Old Home Week. He's with you there, anyway."
"Oh, he's all right aside from his fanatical notions," said the other as they mounted the stairs.
The associate editor nodded his greetings from above a pile of left-over copy.
"Old Home Week?" he queried. "Let's see, when does it come?"
"In less than six months. It isn't too early to give it a start, is it?" asked Hal Surtaine.
"No. It's news any time, now."
"More than that," said Dr. Surtaine. "It's advertising. I can turn every ad. that goes out to the 'Clarion.'"
"Last year we got only the pickings," remarked Ellis.
"Last year your owner wasn't the son of the committee's chairman."