"You didn't object last night," retorted Hudson, hotly.
"No," was the answer, "but at that time I had no idea that the story of this meeting was to be spread broadcast."
"Nor did I," said Hudson, drily.
Before the day was over the protests became so numerous and so insistent that Hudson was driven in a corner, so to speak. He realized that he would have to do something to save himself from the sea of unpopularity in which he threatened to be engulfed. Finally he began, in a mild sort of way, to deny the truthfulness of the report in the newspaper. He thought, vaguely, that at best, it would be simply Conway's word against his own, and in such a contest, he thought he might stand a chance to come out even.
But Felix Conway was not the man to submit to an injustice of any kind. He promptly sought the Congressman and said:
"Mr. Hudson, I understand that you have questioned the accuracy of my report. I challenge you to refute any portion of it!"
Hudson was manifestly annoyed.
"I have no time to bother with you," he said. "I think you have done enough mischief, and I am too busy to be disturbed just now."
Conway laughed joyously.