Carter sat for an hour after her departure scratching his chin. He crossed his legs, shook his elevated foot, showed every sign of profound concentration. He was making up his mind to become a decimal point in the Woman Suffrage Movement. It was like making up his mind to be born again, and not so well born at that!
But "promptly at nine o'clock" the following morning he appeared at Susan's office in the Woman's Building, accepted the nominal editorship of the Signal, and submitted to the indignity of taking down the editorial which she dictated.
On Saturday the Signal appeared. It was a wonder. The entire front page was taken up with an advertisement of the Women's Coöperative Store. The quality of everything was the best. The prices quoted were far below what they had ever been before in Jordantown.
But that which paralyzed the whole male population in the square was this announcement at the top of the editorial page:
Owned and Controlled
By the Co-Citizens' Foundation.
Susan Walton,
Managing Editor.
Magnis Carter,
Assistant Editor.