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"Let him," returned Banneker comfortably, his long-bred habit of un-self-consciousness standing him in good stead. "They'll all forget it soon enough." As he glanced over at the group around the table, the man who was apparently acting as host caught his eye and nodded in friendly fashion. "Oh, you know Marrineal, do you?" asked Cressey in surprise. "I've seen him, but I've never spoken to him.
More likely he's making himself attractive and useful to Marrineal just to find out what he's up to with his paper." "I'll show him something interesting if I get hold of that editorial page." "Son, are you up to it, d'you think?" asked Edmonds with affectionate solicitude. "It takes a lot of experience to handle policies." "I'll have you with me, won't I, Pop?
Banneker's skillful and vehement preachments against Wall Street, money domination of the masses, and the like, went far to wipe out the inherent anti-labor record of the paper and its owner. Hardly a day passed that some working-man's union or club did not pass resolutions of confidence and esteem for Tertius C. Marrineal and The Patriot. It amused Marrineal almost as much as it gratified him.
Marrineal, sitting with inscrutable face turned half away from his visitor, was beginning, "If I meet you on the salary," when Banneker broke in: "Wait until you hear the rest. I'm asking that for six months only. Thereafter I propose to drop the non-editorial work and with it the salary." "With what substitute?"
"Precisely my own humble opinion if a layman may speak," put in Marrineal. "Mr. Banneker, shall I have the contract drawn up?" "Not on my account. I don't need any. If I haven't made myself so essential after the six months that you have to keep me on, I'll want to quit." "Still in the gambling mood," smiled Marrineal.
Opportunity was not lacking to Marrineal for objections to a policy which made powerful enemies for the paper; Banneker, once assured of his following, had hit out right and left. From being a weak-kneed and rather apologetic defender of the "common people," The Patriot had become, logically, under Banneker's vigorous and outspoken policy, a proponent of the side of labor against capital.
"Put a woman's good name on trial and sentence it on hearsay without appeal or recourse." "There is always the danger of going too far along those lines," pointed out Marrineal judicially. "Pardon me, all-wise Proprietor. The d-danger lies in not going far enough. The frightful p-peril of being found dull." "The Territon story assays too thin in facts, as we've put it out. If Mrs.
Banneker stated the case of the Veridian Mills strike simply and fairly. "Could I turn the columns of his own paper on Marrineal for what was not even his fault?" "Impossible. Absurd, as well," acknowledged the other "Can you even criticize Marrineal?"
It isn't my responsibility.... It's an omen, Io; I was waiting for it. Marrineal and I are at a deadlock on the question of my control of the editorial page. This ought to furnish a fighting issue. I'm glad it came from you." "Oh, but if it's going to make trouble for you, I shall be sorry. And I was going to propose that we write one every Saturday." "Io!" he cried. "Does that mean "
Or, rather, that, while it remained static, the rest of the paper, under the stimulus of Severance, Capron, Sheffer, and, in the background but increasingly though subtly assertive, Marrineal, had raised its level of excitation. Change his editorials he would not.
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