I was a reporter of an evening paper in London. One day I was asked to write a few articles on  (  (1)  ) in London. It was then that all my   (2)  started.

   I decided that the best way of   (3)   facts for my articles was that I would become a beggar myself for just one day. When I was an (  (4)  ), of course, I had learned all the   (5)  ) of makeup and I now made good use of them. I (  (6)  ) my face and fixed my upper lip in an ugly twist. Red hair and worn clothes were the only things (  (7)  ). Then I placed myself in one of the busiest streets,   (8)  to be a beggar.

   At home that night I was   (9)  to find that I had received more than a pound. Well, you can imagine how  (10)   it was to settle down to work on the newspaper at two pounds a week,   (11)  ) I knew that I could earn as   (12)  as that in a single day! I stuck to my new post, though my   (13)  ). was hurt. My experience of makeup   (14)  me a great deal and my clever answers soon made me almost a (  (15)  ) character. I had unusual advantages. All day and every day, the money  (16)   into my cap. I usually received   (17)   two pounds in a day. Eventually, I was (  (18)  ) to make a large house in the country, and later to marry. Nobody had any (  (19)   where my money really came from and my wife just "knew I had business in London—that was (20).