A slight pause ensued.
"Are you done?" asked King quietly. Then leaping from the chair he burst suddenly into excitement.
"There's the door, go! And never show your face here again."
Casey had lost his advantage. At the door he gathered himself together again.
"I'll say in my paper what I please," he asserted with a show of bravado.
King was again in control of himself.
"You have a perfect right to do so," he rejoined. "I shall never notice your paper."
Casey struck himself on the breast.
"And if necessary I shall defend myself," he cried.
King bounded again from his seat, livid with anger.