There is plenty of good material to take its place, and you know what it is." Clark hesitated.

"Are you going to say anything about the absence of the report ?" "No, let the paper go to press as if there had been no such thing as a prize fight yesterday." Clark walked out of the room to his own desk feeling as if the bottom had dropped out of everything.

He was astonished, bewildered, excited and considerably angered.

His great respect for Norman checked his rising indignation and disgust, but with it all was a feeling of growing wonder at the sudden change of motive which had entered the office of the DAILY NEWS and threatened, as he firmly believed, to destroy it.
Before noon every reporter, pressman and employee on the DAILY NEWS was informed of the remarkable fact that the paper was going to press without a word in it about the famous prize fight of Sunday.
The reporters were simply astonished beyond measure at the announcement of the fact.

Every one in the stereotyping and composing rooms had something to say about the unheard of omission.
Two or three times during the day when Mr.Norman had occasion to visit the composing rooms the men stopped their work or glanced around their cases looking at him curiously.