All the Board has done is to juggle with figures so that each department seems to have come out all right, whereas the truth is that some departments have been carried on at a great profit, while with others there has been a loss.

The object obviously has been to deceive the public and make it think that all the departments are economically conducted." "I am sorry money hasn't been stolen," said the editor generously, "then we would have had them on the hip; but, even as it is, the _Bugle_ will make a great sensation.

What I fear is that the opposition press will seize on those very inaccuracies, and thus try to throw doubt on the whole affair.

Don't you think that you can persuade this person to let us have the information intact, without the inclusion of those blunders he seems to insist on?
I wouldn't mind paying him a little more money, if that is what he is after." "I don't think that is his object.

The truth is, the man is frightened, and grows more and more so as the day for publication approaches.