"Give me till to-morrow to think it over."
"All right."
Ellis put down the hat and cane which he had picked up preparatory to his departure.
"Not going out after those hundred drinks, eh, Mac?" laughed Sterne.
"Indefinitely postponed," replied the other.
"The first thing to do," said Hal decisively, "is to make amends. Mr. Sterne, the 'Clarion' is to print a full retraction of the attacks upon my father, at once."
"Yes, sir," assented Sterne, slavishly responsive to the new authority.
Not so McGuire Ellis. "If you do that you'll make a fool of your own paper," he said bluntly.
"Make a fool of the paper by righting a rank injustice?"
"Just the point. It isn't a rank injustice."