At the first opportunity Samson
came to the business of his call--the mischievous lie regarding Harry's
death which had appeared in _The Democrat_. Mr. Wentworth went to the
proof room and found the manuscript of the article.
"We kept it because we didn't know and do not now know the writer," said
Wentworth.
Samson told of the evil it had wrought and conveyed his suspicions to the
editor.
"Davis is rather unscrupulous," said Wentworth. "We know a lot about him
in this office."
Samson looked at the article and presently said: "Here is a note that he
gave to a friend of mine. It looks to me as if the note and the article
were written by the same hand."
Mr. Wentworth compared the two and said: "You are right. The same person
wrote them. But it was not Davis."
When Samson left the office of _The Democrat_ he had accomplished little
save the confirmation of his suspicions. There was nothing he could do
about it.
He went to Eli Fredenberg. Eli, having sold out at the height of the boom
in Springfield, had been back to Germany to visit his friends.
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