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`` No hurry -- the newspaper office is only a few blocks from here . '' `` But you want this advertisement to go in tomorrow , do n't you ? '' `` They take 'em up to ten o'clock , and maybe later . '' Presently the crowd began to thin out , and by nine o'clock only half-a-dozen customers remained . Mrs. Linyard and the old man waited upon these , and Doc Linyard drew up to the table and motioned Richard to go ahead . `` Here is the paper I 'm going to put the notice in , '' he said . `` Guess you better follow the style of the other advertisements . ''