Psmith, Journalist
talent he is allowing to waste itself. You must have scope."     

       "He's in Europe. At Carlsbad, or somewhere. He never comes near the paper. He just sits tight and draws the profits. He lets the editor look after things. Just at present I'm acting as editor."     

       "Ah! then at last you have your big chance. You are free, untrammelled."     

       "You bet I'm not," said Billy Windsor. "Guess again. There's no room for developing free untrammelled ideas on this paper. When you've looked at it, you'll see that each page is run by some one. I'm simply the fellow who minds the shop."     

       Psmith clicked his tongue sympathetically. "It is like setting a gifted French chef to wash up dishes," he said. "A man of your undoubted powers, Comrade Windsor, should have more scope. That is the cry, 'more scope!' I must look into this matter. When I gaze at your broad, bulging forehead, when I see the clear light of intelligence in your eyes, and hear the grey matter splashing restlessly about in your cerebellum, I say to myself without hesitation, 'Comrade Windsor must have more scope.'" He looked at       Mike, who was turning over the leaves of his copy of Cosy Moments in a sort of dull despair. "Well, Comrade Jackson, and what is your verdict?"     

       Mike looked at Billy Windsor. He wished to be polite, yet he could find nothing polite to say. Billy interpreted the look.     

       "Go on," he said. "Say it. It can't be worse than what I think."     

       "I expect some people would like it awfully," said Mike.     

       "They must, or they wouldn't buy it. I've never met any of them yet, though."     

       Psmith was deep in Luella Granville Waterman's "Moments in the Nursery."       He turned to Billy Windsor.     

       "Luella Granville Waterman," he said, "is not by any chance your nom-de-plume, Comrade Windsor?"     

       "Not on your life. Don't think it."     

       "I am glad," said Psmith courteously. "For, speaking as man to man, I must confess that for sheer, concentrated bilge she gets away with the biscuit with almost insolent 
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