No one answered, and the shadow disappeared. Penny waited a moment, then impatiently arose and went to the door. The newsroom was deserted.
“Queer,” she thought. “Someone walked past my office door.”
Thinking that it might have been one of the high school boys, Penny went to the head of the stairs and called:
“Did anyone come up here a moment ago?”
“Not unless it was by way of the back entrance,” was the reply.
Decidedly puzzled, Penny returned to her desk. As she sat down a sheet of paper lying on the blotter pad drew her attention. She was certain it had not been there a few minutes earlier.
Reaching for it, she gasped in astonishment. The paper bore a message scrawled in black ink and read:
“To the Editor of the Weekly Times:
You are hereby warned to give up your newspaper which offends public taste. We give you three days to wind up your business and close doors. A word to the wise is sufficient.”