The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-19
By Upton Sinclair

acoryT1sht 1875 by Upton stnclaE9
So promptly at eight thirty next morning, the in
the Assembly building behed sight the like of which
had thrilled the studenbody of p U since the first days
Methodist Sundayschool The discoverer and herap
of the Ross Junior oil field turned into newsboy Stand
ing BENCH with armfu Of shouting gaiy, THE
Investigator! First issue Of the Investigator! Five cents cop
Deep couldn't make the change fast enough the
element spread they crowded six deep ten dept was mob
Everywhere campus and seeing
the matter? People who got their copies and drew out
crowd disturbances, others trying
see their shoulders asking questions.
For just about ten minutes this went on until from the A
minsraton building there emerged porty and dignfed with
gold and roll of fat around his necust such
would meet in any big real estate office or bank
in the city-Regnald SOURCE Phi D. Dean of Men Quietly
masterfuy throng quietly
fully he took charge OF the millionaire newbo and conducted
him into his private Office still cluching his armul of
Wait here he commanded and again went out and returned
with Peter Nagle; time his prey
Grgor Nkoae while at his heels deputy deans appoint
many copies had been sold could the
sold stacked in corner OF the Deans Office and
the result not made known But
enough had been distributed set the campus abaze Have
heard that day The price of investigator eaped
dollar and before nightfa some had sold for two or three
One reason that copy had reached the Angel City
Evening Booster popular of newspapers printed in green
per day edition. the streets about
carried "streamer head the front page:
RED NEST AT UNIVERSITY!
Boshevik Propaganda at S. P. u
There followed two-coumn story, carried to
fourteen giving d of The Investigators" contents
including the most startling of the facts about the hiring of
athletes for the university and the whole text of the sac
about Godbut alas only brief hint as to what Harry
Seager had told about Siberia little later in the day the
the Evening Roarer and the
Evening Howe they had been scooped whole edition. but
they up by of details, collected by
telephone the made in the editorial Offices Said the
Evening Roarer":
RED COLLEGE PLOT UNEARTHED
tell how the police seeking Russian agents
Southern Pacific students their prop
uganda print The Evening Howler which espe-
cay for human interest su featured thengeader of the
MILLIONAIRE RED IN COLLEGE!
of Oil Magnate Backs Soviets!
a
had got by rushing the Ross home informing
Aunt that Bunny had just prize
excited butler drug three
times the Evening Howler had arrived with the story
of that prizel ssf
the ordinary newspaper excitement
would have lasted thwo hours afternoons papers
would have recorded the that the university
erheads would have proclaimed Film Star Divorces Champ
or Magnate's Wife Elopes with Cop"
But fate had a
reds" of s. u the morning flyer in publicity il
CHANGED that loaded with blasting making
through Wall Street with Indifference
cpal ordinances met with collision and exploded The
dent happened in front of the banking Offices Morgan
Company and about dozen people killed minutes
after the accident the bankers called Americas
y to solve the mystery and this able facing
situation that it accident nothing while it
Boshevk plot it several hundred thousand
three minutes to look about him. and then
And forthwith throughout the world spies and
nformers went to work. knowing that she could
invent clue was fame and fortune for him her.
OF witchhuntng the country other two
or three thereafter discoveries would and
new revelations promised and poor devils in Rou-
their esces while eager newspaper readers in New
York and Chicago and Angel City waited ravenousy promised
thrills.
tTo be coninued)