"Are you going to write it up?"
"I'll have to report for instructions. They'll probably send some one else up to the station to follow matters up, but perhaps the city editor will let me write up this part of it."
"You have a good deal of responsibility," said Lawrence.
"Responsibility?"
"I mean in the way of influencing public opinion."
"I have nothing to do but to tell the facts, and there aren't many of them yet."
"You have to select the facts to speak of," Lawrence said. He was keeping up with Lyon's quick pace, but his voice was so deliberate that it made Lyon unconsciously pull up.
"I suppose so."
"If you wanted to make a sensational report, for instance, you could work in the peaceful night and the deserted street and other things that really have no relation to the facts in such a way as to connect them in the public mind."
"Yes, I suppose so."