"You will not go as a journalist," continued Mrs. Denton; "but as a
personal friend of mine, whose discretion I shall vouch for. I want you
to find out what the people I am sending you among are thinking
themselves, and what they consider ought to be done. If we are not very
careful on both sides we shall have the newspapers whipping us into war."
The perpetual Egyptian trouble had cropped up again and the Carleton
papers, in particular, were already sounding the tocsin. Carleton's
argument was that we ought to fall upon France and crush her, before she
could develop her supposed submarine menace. His flaming posters were at
every corner. Every obscure French newspaper was being ransacked for
"Insults and Pinpricks."
"A section of the Paris Press is doing all it can to help him, of
course," explained Mrs. Denton. "It doesn't seem to matter to them that
Germany is only waiting her opportunity, and that, if Russia comes in, it
is bound to bring Austria. Europe will pay dearly one day for the luxury
of a free Press."
"But you're surely not suggesting any other kind of Press, at this period
of the world's history?" exclaimed Joan.
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