"No, I do not. If a lifetime of honesty and faithful service is not a sufficient answer to these false and malicious reports, then nothing I can say at this time would have any effect with the people of Cleverly."
Conway looked at him with genuine admiration.
"You've got splendid courage, anyhow," he admitted, "and if you won't answer these reports, I suppose there's nothing for me to do but go back and get out my nightly grind."
"No, Felix," said the other, with an air of finality, "there is nothing else that you can do."
"But," insisted Conway, "if you won't talk for publication, I suppose you will act for your own satisfaction. You will go after these fellows, won't you?"
"No," was the response, "I won't!"
"Well, what in the world are you going to do?"
"Do," smiled the other, "I am going to do nothing. I am going to let events take their natural course!"