They read, with a gasp, that he was dead; that his successful opponent had proclaimed himself to be his son.

They had the dramatic value of cumulative effect.

If Paul had ever sought notoriety he had it now.

His name rang through the length and breadth of the land.

The early editions of the London afternoon papers swelled the chorus of amazed comment and conjecture.
Some had even routed out a fact or two, Heaven knows whence, concerning father and son.