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Well, what about an article, then we'd get Neilson to do one on the whole tribe of fiction-writing fools, taking Lady Pinkerton for a peg to hang it on? ... After all, we are the organ of the Anti-Potter League. We ought to hammer at Potterite fiction as well as at Potterite journalism and politics. For two pins I'd get Johnny Potter to do it. He would, I believe. 'I'm sure he would.
'But it will be jolly awkward being married to Hobart and writing in the anti-Potter press. 'She'll write for the Daily Haste, Juke said. 'She'll make Hobart give her a job on it. Having begun to go down the steep descent, she won't stop till she gets to the bottom. Jane's thorough. But that was precisely what I didn't think Jane was.
On that Anti-Potter investigation tour I had observed and analysed her, and smiled cynically to myself at the commercial instinct of the Potter twins, the lack of the fineness that distinguished Katherine and Juke. I remembered that; but I remembered, too, how white and round Jane's chin had looked as it pressed against the thymy turf of the cliff where we lay above the sea.
That idea came a little later, after the Anti-Potter party had broken up and gone home. The young men began to enlist and get commissions. It was done; it was the correct idea. Johnny Potter, who belonged to an O.T.C., got a commission early. Jane said within herself, 'Johnny can go and I can't. She knew she was badly, incredibly left. Johnny was in the movement, doing the thing that mattered.
But it was the idea of the Anti-Potter League to keep clear of parties and labels. Once you are tied up with a party, you can only avoid second-handedness, taking over views ready-made, if you are very strong-minded indeed. Thursday was a fairly free afternoon for me, and Jane and I somehow got into a habit of going off somewhere together after lunch, or staying on at the club and talking.
The way the twins put it was, 'Our family is responsible for more than its share of the beastly thing; the least we can do is to help to do it in, which sounded chivalrous. And another way they put it was, 'We're not going to have any one connecting us with it, which sounded sensible. So they joined the Anti-Potter League, not blind to the piquant humour of their being found therein. Mr.
But as she said it she met the sharp and shrewd eyes of Mr. Potter, and knew that he knew she was referring to the Anti-Potter League. Mr. Potter would not, indeed, have been worthy of his reputation had he not been aware, from its inception, of the existence of this League. Journalists have to be aware of such things. He in no way resented the League; he brushed it aside as of no account.
So, when he could, he induced parsons to join the Anti-Potter League. We weren't all tied up, I may say, with the political party principles very commonly held by members of the 1917 Club. I certainly wasn't a Socialist, nor, wholly, I think, a Radical; neither at that time was Peacock, though he became more so as time went on; nor, certainly, was Katherine.
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