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''Who has been associated with Mr. Hearst since he first took hold of the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. McEwen is now the chief editorial writer on the Nav York American''

and the middle of two more days. And he answered all my questions.

That was all, however. He volunteered nothing, absolutely nothing; neither a fact, nor an amplification, nor an idea. While I pumped, he made response. When I stopped, he stopped. And if, perchance, I put a question in some other form, he wouldn't answer it even if it was a charge.

"Here's another count they make against you, Mr. Hearst," I'd say, and I would state the allegation.

Listening, he would nod his head affirmatively, as if to say he had heard it before, but when the statement was concluded he did 7