"Do you approve its methods in, let us say, the political articles?"
"I have no control over the news columns."
"Don't answer my question," said the lawyer with a fine effect of
patience, long-suffering and milky-mild, "if it in any way discommodes
you."
"It all comes to this," disclosed Banneker. "If the mayor turns on us,
we can't lie down under the whip and we won't. We'll hit back."
"Of course."
"Editorially, I mean."
"I understand. At least the editorials will be a direct method of
attack, and an honest one. I may assume that much?"
"Have you ever seen anything in the editorial columns of The Patriot
that would lead you to assume otherwise?"
"Answering categorically I would have to say 'No.'
"Answer as you please."
"Then I will say," observed the other, speaking with marked
deliberation, "that on one occasion I have failed to see matter which I
thought might logically appear there and the absence of which afforded
me food for thought. Do you know Peter McClintick?"
"Yes. Has he been talking to you about the Veridian killings?"
Enderby nodded. "One could not but contrast your silence on that subject
with your eloquence against the Steel Trust persecutions, consisting, if
I recall, in putting agitators in jail for six months.
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