Kennedy? She is the head of our press
bureau." Then a heightened look of determination set his fine face
in hard lines, and he brought his fist down on the desk. "No, not
a cent," he thundered.
Bennett shrugged his shoulders hopelessly and looked at Kennedy in
mock resignation as if to say, "What can you do with such a fellow?"
Travis was excitedly pacing the floor and waving his arms as if he
were addressing a meeting in the enemy's country. "Hanford comes
at us in this way," he continued, growing more excited as he paced
up and down. "He says plainly that the pictures will of course be
accepted as among those stolen from me, and in that, I suppose, he
is right. The public will swallow it. When Bennett told him I
would prosecute he laughed and said, 'Go ahead. I didn't steal the
pictures. That would be a great joke for Travis to seek redress
from the courts he is criticising. I guess he'd want to recall the
decision if it went against him hey?' Hanford says that a hundred
copies have been made of each of the photographs and that this
person, whom we do not know, has them ready to drop into the mail to
the one hundred leading papers of the state in time for them to
appear in the Monday editions just before Election Day.
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