"Certainly," Mr. Cameron nodded. "There are always firms that are glad to get extra work if paid satisfactorily for it." There was a pause. "The pay is just the rub," Paul confessed frankly. "You see we haven't any class treasury to draw on; at least we have one, but there's nothing in it." The two exchanged a smile. "But you would plan to take subscriptions," said the elder man. "Surely you are not going to give your literary efforts away free of charge." "N--o," came slowly from Paul. Then he continued more positively. "Oh, of course we should try to make what we wrote worth selling. We'd make people pay for it. But we couldn't charge much. Most of us have been paying for our Liberty Bonds and haven't a great deal to spare. I know I haven't." "About what price do you think you could get for a school paper?" "I don't know. I haven't thought much about it. Perhaps a dollar, or a dollar and a quarter a year. Not more than that." "And how many members would be likely to take it?" Paul meditated. "There are about fifty seniors," he said. "But of course the other three classes would subscribe--at least some of them would. We shouldn't confine the thing simply to the doings of the seniors. We should put in not only general school news but items about the lower classes as well so that the paper would interest everybody. It ought to bring us in quite a little money. Shouldn't you think we could buy a press and run it for two hundred dollars?" "Have you considered the price of paper and of ink, son?" "No; but they can't cost much," was the sanguine response. "Alas, they not only _can_ but _do_," replied his father. "Then you think we couldn't have a school paper." "I did not say that." "Well, you mean we couldn't make it pay." "I shouldn't go so far as that, either," returned Mr. Cameron kindly. "What I mean is that you could not buy a printing press and operate it with the money you would probably have at hand. Nevertheless there are, as I said before, other ways of getting at the matter. If I were in your place I should look them up before I abandoned the project." "How?" "Make sure of your proposition. Find out how many of your schoolmates would pledge themselves to subscribe to a paper if you had one. Then, when you have made a rough estimate of about how much money you would be likely to secure, go and see some printer and put the question up to him. Tell him what you would want and find out exactly what he could do for you. You've always been in a hurry to leave school and take up business. Here is a business proposition right now. Try your hand at it and see how you like it." Mr. Cameron pushed back his chair, rose, and sauntered into his den; and Paul, familiar with his father's habits, did not follow him, for he knew that from now until late into the evening the elder man would be occupied with law books and papers.