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But the doorman at the hotel , an East Indian , came forward to him with a telegram on a salver . The boy tore it open , and read : `` GOOD -- STUFF -- SEND -- SOME MORE -- FERGUS . '' And if Stuart had been offered the Governor Generalship of all the West Indian Islands put together , he could not have been more proud . He spent the evening interviewing some of the passengers who had come on the mail steamer the day before and who had stayed in Port of Spain and , before midnight , filed at the cable office a good `` second-day story . '' Remembering what his friend the reporter had told him , Stuart realized that though he was still sending this matter to Fergus , as it was straight news stuff , it probably was being handled by the Night Telegraph staff . That would not help to fill Fergus ' columns in the Sunday issue , and the boy realized that , no matter what live day stuff he got hold of , he must not fall behind in his series of articles on the Color Question in the West Indies . This question -- which takes on the proportions of a problem in everyone of the West Indian Islands -- was very different in Trinidad than in Barbados .