But he had never
reported anybody who hadn't really broken the law, and he had never
told McGivney anything but the truth.
Then Andrews proceeded to examine him. Peter denied that he had ever
reported anything about the Goober case. He denied most strenuously
that he had ever had anything to do with the McCormick "frame-up."
When they tried to pin him down on this case and that, he suddenly
summoned his dignity and declared that Andrews had no right to
cross-question him, he was a 100%, red-blooded American patriot, and
had been saving his country and his God from German agents and
Bolshevik traitors.
Donald Gordon almost went wild at that. "What you've been doing was
to slip stuff into our pamphlet about conscientious objectors, so as
to get us all indicted!"
"That's a lie!" cried Peter. "I never done nothing of the kind!"
"You know perfectly well you rubbed out those pencil marks that I
drew through that sentence in the pamphlet."
"I never done it!" cried Peter, again and again.
And suddenly big John Durand clenched his hands, and his face became
terrible with his pent-up rage. "You white-livered little sneak!" he
hissed. "What we ought to do with you is to pull the lying tongue
out of you!" He took a step forward, as if he really meant to do it.
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