THE FREE LANCE. Published Monthly during the College Year by the Students of The Pennsylvania Slate College. Vol. X PERKINS' ASSIGNMENT. " Here, Perkins, look this up!" Perkins picked up the mes sage his chief threw on the table and read: " White South American Chief in Chicago. Get story." Such an assignment just suited Perkins. The more vague the clew the better. Without a word he set out; but a round of all the principal hotels failed to give him any trace. " How am I to find this man among two million people?" he asked the chief When he returned. " Oh, you'll get him somewhere," was the reply. " You might catch him at the Fair, though I'd like the stuff in time for to-morrow's issue." "At the Fair!" gasped Perkins, " great scott, man! there were eight hundred thousand people there yesterday." A multi tude of expletives mingled in the conversation, but with '' the man has to be found! If you can't do it, 1;vho can?" ringing in his ears, Perkins set out. To hunt for the man would be absurd, so Perkins took his station in the " Temple of Beauty " on the Midway, and waited. His only hope was to tackle every man he found talking with the South American beauties in a foreign language. " What foolishness! I might have to stay here a week before he conies around. But no danger! The chief will have something very pressing' when I get • back, and this piece of royalty will fall into some other reporter's clutches." Perkins busied himself writing a paragraph about the place and making a sketch or two, but he had scarcely been waiting an hour when he saw a strikingly beautiful woman talking with the Chilean lady. With her was ,a tall, powerfully built man, and after'a few more, words the strange couple moved away. OCTOBER, 1896. No. 4.
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