Oh yes! It was there.

The Orb had suspended payment--the first growl of the storm faint as yet, but to the initiated the forerunner of a deluge.

As an item of news it was not indecently displayed.

It was not displayed at all in a sense.

The serious paper, the only one of the great dailies which had always maintained an attitude of reserve towards the de Barral group of banks, had its "manner." Yes! a modest item of news! But there was also, on another page, a special financial article in a hostile tone beginning with the words "We have always feared" and a guarded, half-column leader, opening with the phrase: "It is a deplorable sign of the times" what was, in effect, an austere, general rebuke to the absurd infatuations of the investing public.