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Updated: June 10, 2025
"If you think there's any libel in what the 'Clarion' has said, ask your lawyer. What do you want, anyway?" Thus recalled to the more pacific phase of his errand, Hal produced his document. "If you've got an iota of decency or fairness about you, you'll print that," he said. Sterne glanced through it swiftly. "Nothing doing," he stated succinctly. "Did Dr. Surtaine send you here with that thing?"
Surtaine may have lacked in scrupulosity of method, his intentions were good. He honestly believed that he was doing well by his city in veiling the nature of the contagion.
Surtaine was made the basis of a shrewd attempt to extract from the beneficiary an indorsement of Certina's virtues, or, if not that, of the personal character and professional probity of its proprietor. This is what had happened in the instance of the check to Mr. Hale's church, Smithson being the medium through whom the attempt was made.
The Great American Pumess, looking much more like a very innocent, soft, and demurely playful kitten, accepted this ingenuous tribute to her charms with a smile. "Good-morning," she said. "Is Mr. Surtaine in?" "Same t'you," responded the courteous Mr. Currier. "Sure he is. Walk this way, maddim!" They found the editor at his desk.
That the girl had killed herself was generally understood: that there had been a shooting, previous to her death, was also current. Eager report recalled and exaggerated the fact that she had been seen with Hal Surtaine at a dubious road-house some months previous.
Since the younger man's return, the old relations had been resumed, though there were still, of necessity, difficult restraints and reservations in their talk. The "Clarion," however, had ceased to be one of the tabooed subjects. Since the publication of the President's letter and the saving of Old Home Week, Dr. Surtaine had become an avowed Clarionite.
Embodied in the form of a motion this was passed, and the chair appointed as that committee three merchants, all of whom were members of the Publication Committee of the Retail Union; and, as such, exercised the most powerful advertising control in Worthington. Dr. Surtaine still pinned his hopes to the dollar and its editorial potency.
I suppose you can afford it." As if responding to the touch of a concealed spring, the Surtaine chest protruded. "You find me something I can't afford, and I'll buy it!" he declared. "But this won't even cost me anything in the long run. Esmé, did I ever tell you my creed?" "'Certina Cures," suggested the girl mischievously. "That's for business. I mean for everyday life.
One such instance as the running-down of Miss Cleary bears within it far more than the extremest demagoguery the potentialities of an unleashed hate. It is a lesson in lawlessness." Still in the afterglow of composition, Hal, tinkering lightly with the proofs, felt a hand on his shoulder. "Well, Boy-ee," said the voice of Dr. Surtaine. "Hello, father," returned Hal. "Sit down. What's up?"
Is it, oh, is it, the Great American Pumess that I have the honor to address?" She made him a sweeping bow. "In a good cause." "About which I shall doubtless hear to-morrow?" "Don't I always confess my good actions?" "At what hour does the victim's dying shriek rend the quivering air?" "Mr. Surtaine is due here at half past eight." "Humph! Young Surtaine, eh?
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