"About some kinds certainly. You know a lot of people it's difficult to
get at unless one takes some extraordinary measures, as you've done."
"What do you mean? What measures have I done?"
"Well, THEY have--to get right hold of you--and its the same thing.
Pouncing on you, to secure you first--I call that energetic, and don't
you think I ought to know?" smiled Mr. Flack with much meaning. "I
thought _I_ was energetic, but they got in ahead of me. They're a
society apart, and they must be very curious."
"Yes, they're very curious," Francie admitted with a resigned sigh. Then
she said: "Do you want to put them in the paper?"
George Flack cast about--the air of the question was so candid,
suggested so complete an exemption From prejudice. "Oh I'm very careful
about what I put in the paper. I want everything, as I told you; Don't
you remember the sketch I gave you of my ideals? But I want it in the
right way and of the right brand. If I can't get it in the shape I like
it I don't want it at all; first-rate first-hand information, straight
from the tap, is what I'm after. I don't want to hear what some one or
other thinks that some one or other was told that some one or other
believed or said; and above all I don't want to print it.
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