Chapter 16

It was not precisely untruthful, yet it was far from candid. Call it a superb piece of special pleadings. Mr. Mappin led his readers just the way he wished them to go. He seemed to prove that the murder was the result of a feud amongst foreign communists. As such it scarcely concerned good Americans. It was his judicious use of the term Bolshevist that did the trick. Nothing can stand against that. Let the Bolshevists do each other in, he seemed to say. Of course there was nobody clever enough to cross lances with …