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From the connoisseur's point of view the 'Early News' was not an attractive sheet. The first page boasted a drawing usually depicting some repellent crime, the details and local colour being left to the artist. The mere fact that a murder scene was frequently portrayed long before the police had a clue to the assassins counted for nothing. The paper itself was atrocious, the articles were vulgar and personal, and in the worst of taste. If Lawson Waddy could have raised his circulation by making the 'Early News' still more vulgar he would not have hesitated to do it. The thing paid, and the rest mattered nothing.
-"Beautifully adapted to a public-house isn't it?" Reggie asked as he opened the sheet. "It's all here on page five. 'The Grande Dame and her Treasures! The missing Dirk Bouts' triptych comes to light! Purchased for £14,000 by the Proprietor of the 'Early News!' The Trustees of the Caradoc Estate Intervene! Proceedings in the Chancery Court to-day!' You can imagine the rest."