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`` Is she as bad as that ? '' he asked anxiously . `` She wo n't be any the better for seeing people , '' replied Miss Van Arsdale firmly , and with that the caller was forced to be content as he went back to his own place . The morning train of the nineteenth , which should have been the noon train of the eighteenth , deposited upon the platform Gardner of the Angelica City Herald , and a suitcase . The thin and bespectacled reporter shook hands with Banneker . `` Well , Mr. Man , '' he observed . `` You 've made a hit with that story of yours even before it 's got into print . ''