them, and he says that I'm a fool. He wants as much as you
can send, and all the details. He says all the papers will
have to put `By Yokohama Cable Company' on the top of each
message they print, and that that is advertising the company,
and is sending the stock up. It rose fifteen points on
'change in San Francisco to-day, and the president and the
other officers are buying----"

"Oh, I don't want to hear about their old company," snapped
out Gordon, pacing up and down in despair. "What am I to do?
that's what I want to know. Here I have the whole country
stirred up and begging for news. On their knees for it, and a
cable all to myself, and the only man on the spot, and nothing
to say. I'd just like to know how long that German idiot
intends to wait before he begins shelling this town and
killing people. He has put me in a most absurd position."

"Here's a message for you, Gordon," said Stedman, with
business-like calm. "Albert Gordon, Correspondent," he read:
"Try American consul. First message 0. K.; beat the country;
can take all you send. Give names of foreign residents
massacred, and fuller account blowing up palace. Dodge."

The expression on Gordon's face as this message was slowly
read off to him, had changed from one of gratified pride to
one of puzzled consternation.

"What's he mean by foreign residents massacred, and blowing up
of palace?" asked Stedman, looking over his shoulder
anxiously. "Who is Dodge?"