The Colonel would have been no such fool.
Stitz?
He would hardly accuse himself.

Who then?
One passage set the attorney thinking again as he re-read the article.
"'Thinks are seldom what they seem,' as the poet says, which is as true as that 'Honesty is the best policy.' And as Shakespeare says, 'To what base ends,' for all this disreputable graft centers around certain brilliant objects that are not what the guilty bribers and bribees suppose them to be.

While we shudder with horror at the temerity of the sinners we shake with laughter as we think of their faces as they will be when they realize that they are mortals to whom the immortal bard refers when he enunciates the truth, 'What fools these mortals be!'" "Certain brilliant objects" could mean nothing but the lung-testers.
Eliph' Hewlitt had that secret, and Eliph' Hewlitt boarded with Doc Weaver.

The attorney felt a sudden rush of anger.

It was to this intermeddling book agent, then, that he owed the premature explosion of the mine that was to have blown the Citizens' Party to fragments, and to have landed the fragments in the basket held ready by Attorney Toole?
The distribution of that week's TIMES acted like a tonic on the town streets.