Section 48They dismissed Peter for the present, sending him back to hiscell. He stayed there for two days with no one to advise him, andno hint as to his fate. They did not allow newspapers in the jail,but they had left Peter his money, and so on the second day hesucceeded in bribing one of his keepers and obtaining a copy of theAmerican City “Times,” with all the details of theamazing sensation spread out on the front page.
For thirty years the “Times” had been standing forlaw and order against all the forces of red riot and revolution;for thirty years the “Times” had been declaring thatlabor leaders and walkingdelegates and Socialists and Anarchistswere all one and the same thing, and all placed their reliancefundamentally upon one instrument, the dynamite bomb. Here at lastthe “Times”
