10 P.M.
Telegraph `` skeletons '' waited in vain for their bones to be clothed with the flesh of print . The Home Advice Department sank with all on board , and the most popular sensational preacher in town , who had that evening made a stirring anti-suffrage speech full of the most unfailing jokes , fell out of the paper and broke his heart . The carnage in news was general and frightful . Two pages plus of a story that `` breaks '' after 10 P.M. calls for heroic measures . At 10.53 Mr. Harrington Surtaine arrived , hardly less tempestuously than his predecessor . He did not even greet Bim as he passed through the gate , which was unusual ; but went direct to Ellis . `` Can we do it , Mac ? ''