"Why, everybody is in ecstasies.
The gloom of yesterday has vanished like the mist from a cheap cigar.

You're suspected of writing the article, too, Len.

If the High School students can find any proof that you did you'll get a rouser in the way of handsome treatment." The two had stepped down just off the street into the alleyway.
"Does everyone seem to believe that the job was put up at the Business Men's Club ?" Dick asked.
"Sure thing," nodded Len Spencer.

"And no member of the Club will deny it, either, for the thing has struck the popular side of the town.

Why, by tonight, there'll be at least a dozen of the members, each confidentially telling his friends that _he_ conceived the whole trick." "That'll make it all the stronger," nodded Dick.