“They say you’ve carried some districts on the North Side.”
“Which ones?” asked the colonel.
“Don’t remember.”
“Anything else?”
“Well, they say Warner has carried some North Side districts, too—and some West Side districts.”
“Warner?”
“Well, whatever his name is.”
Then Foerder was silent, and the colonel lay a long time thinking.
“Did you learn how it’s going in the Ninth, or the Second, or the Seventeenth?”
“They say it’s about an even break everywhere.”