If you will come there in a
couple of hours, we will give you an interview."
"But I must have a story for our first edition, that goes to press
before that."
I had Carpenter by the arm, and kept him firmly walking. I could not
get rid of the reporter, but I was resolved to get my warning
spoken, regardless of anything. Said I: "This is a matter extremely
urgent for you to understand, Mr. Carpenter. This young man
represents a newspaper, and anything you say to him will be read in
the course of a few hours by perhaps a hundred thousand people. If
it is found especially senational, the Continental Press may put it
on its wires, and it will go to several hundred papers all over the
country--"
"Twelve hundred and thirty-seven papers," corrected the young man.
"So you see, it is necessary that you should be careful what you
say--far more so than if you were speaking to a handful of Mexican
laborers or Jewish housewives."
Said Carpenter: "I don't understand what you mean. When I speak, I
speak the truth.
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