"Good-by, Mr. Bannister."
"What? you're not going yet? What? Does this stuff bore you?"
"It does not bore me. But I must add—excuse an old-fashioned fellow—that it does something worse."
"What? Oh, you're on the other side? Of course you are!"
"Whatever side I was, I could not listen to that. As an older man, let me give you a word of advice."
Dale lifted his hands in good-humored protest.
"Sorry you don't like it," he said. "Shut up, Roberts! If I'd known, we wouldn't have had it. But it's true—true—true."
The Doctor listened with sparkling eyes.
"I must differ utterly; I must indeed. Good-by, Mr. Bannister. Hedger?"
The Mayor started.