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Bunny came out into the sunshine with a fresh impulse of desperation. His father was half sick, but even so, his father must have this burden of pain dumped onto him! The last time they had discussed the matter, Dad had said to wait, Vernon Roscoe would "see what he could do. " But now Bunny would wait no longer; Dad must compel Verne to act, or Bunny would take up the job himself.
He drove his father back to Angel City, and learned that the radicals had organized a "defense committee," and there was to be a mass-meeting of protest, at which funds would be raised for the approaching trial. Paul was to be the principal speaker -- despite the fact that it might cause his bail privilege to be cancelled. When Bunny got that news, he served an ultimatum on his father; the meeting was to take place the following week, and unless Verne had acted in the meantime, Bunny was going to be one of the speakers, and say his full say about the case.