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The quaker librarian springhalted near. I should like to know, he said, which brother you... I understand you to suggest there was misconduct with one of the brothers... But perhaps I am anticipating? He caught himself in the act: looked at all: refrained. An attendant from the doorway called: Mr Lyster! Father Dineen wants... O, Father Dineen! Directly.
I was pushing something back, back, back over the footlights. I did not stop pushing till it had reached the topmost galleries.... I had them.... The applause after the first act was wonderful. "Great! You're great ... you've vindicated my belief in you entirely!" Dineen was shouting, as he clapped me on the back, beside himself. "Oh, I knew I'd do it!... I want a drink!"
"That way we'll net him three or four hundred dollars." It was Dineen who spoke. We chanced to be walking up the Hill together.
"But how about Dineen? He'd go nearly crazy!" "There's where a lot of the fun would come in. And to see the way Gertie Black, the elocution teacher, would carry on!..." But after a long pause of temptation I shook my head in negation of the suggestion.... It would be a lark, but I had pledged Dineen that I would give him no more trouble with my vagaries....
When that clock-governed functionary was missing something indeed must be going wrong. Presently the orderly came running back. "Sergeant Dineen isn't home, sir, and his wife says he hasn't been back since the lieutenant sent him in town with the last dispatch." "Tell the first sergeant of "B" Company, then, to act as sergeant-major at once," said the adjutant, and hurried over to his colonel.
They had now, for the first time, a fighting chance to secure the restoration of their shortened work day. The women of fifteen organized trades in the city of Chicago determined to take that chance. The women first appealed to the Industrial Commission, appointed early in 1908 by Governor Dineen, to investigate the need of protective legislation for workers, men and women alike.
I know that Dineen, in his European fashion, was free with his hands, when he meant no harm. He had merely laid his hand on the girl's leg, in friendly fashion, and asked if she was hurt. But the nasty Puritan mind of the community went to work, and the story was hawked about that Professor Dineen, taking advantage of the cyclone, had tried to "feel the girl up."
But whether it was his winning way or his foreign reputation, he was accepted gravely, and ideas won consideration, enunciated by him, that would have been looked on as mad, coming from me.... Again the faculty were nonplussed ... puzzled.... Dineen, Van Maarden and I were together much.
Before my arrival our executives had been greeted by Monsignor Dineen, secretary of Archbishop Hayes, of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, who informed them that the meeting would be prohibited on the ground that it was contrary to public morals. The police had closed the doors. When they opened them to permit the exit of the large audience which had gathered, Mr. Cox and I entered.
Then: "Who's speaking you, Monty? . . . Know who this is, at this end? . . . Yes, that's right. Say, is the Kid there Kid Dineen? . . . Good! Call him to the phone, will you, Monty? And tell him to hurry it's devilish important." A short pause followed and when Trencher spoke again he had dropped his voice to a cautious half-whisper, vibrant and tense with urgency.
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