I had been working double tides for a month: at night on my morning paper, as usual; and in the morning on an evening paper as _locum tenens_ for another man who was taking a holiday. This was an exhausting plan of work, although it only actually involved some six hours' attendance a day, or less, at the two offices. I turned up at the headquarters of my own paper at ten in the evening, and by the time I had seen the editor, selected a subject, written my leader, corrected the slips, chatted, smoked, and so on, and cleared off, it was very usually one o'clock. This meant bed at two, or even three, after supper at the club. This was all very well at ordinary periods, when any time in the mor…
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