MIDNIGHT
When Grayson went to his room , he fell from exhaustion in a half-faint across the bed ; but when Harley told him the next afternoon the cause of it all , he laughed and said it was well worth the price . They obtained , about a week later , the New York papers containing an account of the record-breaking day . When Harley opened the _ Monitor _ , Churchill 's paper , he read these head-lines : GRAYSON 'S GAB HE IS TALKING THE FARMERS OF THE WEST TO DEATH But when he looked at the _ Gazette _ , he saw the following head-lines over his own account : HIS GREATEST SPEECH GRAYSON 'S WONDERFUL EXHIBITION OF PLUCK AND ENDURANCE AFTER RIDING FOUR HUNDRED MILES AND MAKING TWENTY-THREE SPEECHES HE HOLDS AN AUDIENCE SPELLBOUND FOR THREE HOURS AT HIS TWENTY-FOURTH SPEAKS FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL THREE IN THE MORNING IN THE OPEN AIR AND NOT A SOUL LEAVES , THOUGH A BLIZZARD WAS RAGING Harley sighed with satisfaction . `` That managing editor of mine knows his business , '' he said to himself . Harley slept late the next day , and it was the heavy , somewhat nervous slumber of utter exhaustion , like that which he had more than once experienced in the war on the other side of the world , after days of incessant marching . When he awoke , it was afternoon on the special train , and as he joined the group he was greeted with a suppressed cheer .