"I think I'd better keep out of the movement, Dad."
"As you like. And you'll see that the 'Clarion' keeps out of it, too?"
"So that's it."
"Yes, Boy-ee: that's it. You can see, for yourself, that a newspaper sensation would ruin everything just now—and also ruin the paper that sprung it."
"So I heard from Elias M. Pierce sometime since."
"For once Pierce is right."
"Are you asking me to suppress the epidemic story?"
"To let us handle it our own way," substituted the Doctor. "We've got our campaign all figured out and ready to start. Do you know what the great danger is now?"
"Letting the infection go on without taking open measures to stop it."
"You're way wrong! Starting a panic that will scatter it all over the place is the real danger. Have you heard of a single case outside of the Rookeries district, so far?"