"And won't the outside papers have the same stuff?"
"Sure," agreed Curtis promptly, "but what isn't in the city press
doesn't get to the mass of the public; that's a cinch. There will be
some thousands or even tens of thousands who will leave; there'll be
rumors a-plenty; there'll be the damnedest row since the Crusades--but
the people will stick. I'm taking your word for the danger."
"Well, I'm the hostage," Darrow reminded him.
"Correct," said Curtis, reaching for the desk telephone.
Hallowell followed the visitors to the narrow hall.
"Now," said Darrow in parting, "remember what I have said. Don't mention
my name nor indicate that there is anywhere an idea that the identity or
whereabouts of Monsieur X is by anybody suspected."
CHAPTER XV
THE MASTER SPEAKS AGAIN
Having thus detailed rather minutely the situation in which the city and
the actors in its drama found themselves, it now becomes necessary to move
the action forward to the point where the moneyed interests took a hand in
the game.
That was brought about in somewhat more than fifty hours.
In the meantime the facts as to vibrations were published in all the
papers; the despatches and the relations between McCarthy and Monsieur X
exclusively in the _Despatch_--to that organ's vast satisfaction and
credit; and the possibilities of tragedy in none. This latter fact was
greatly to the credit of a maligned class of men.
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