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There was nothing you could say for var. But "Wild Bill" smiled his crooked smile. There were several things you could say. War gave the workers guns, and taught them to use them; how would it be if some day they turned these guns about and fought their own battles? Comrade Gerrity now took the chair and made an effort to get things started.
Presently came Comrades Gerrity and Mary Allen, who had got wind of the trouble, and had loaded a whole edition of the Worker into a Ford; so Jimmie turned newsboy, selling these papers, hundreds of them, until his pockets were bursting with the weight of pennies and nickels.
They came to the station-house, and Bill was carried out and laid on a bench, and the others were stood up before the desk and had their pedigrees taken. Gerrity demanded indignantly to be allowed to telephone, and this demand was granted. He routed Lawyer Norwood from a party, and set him to finding bail; and meantime the prisoners were led to cells.
President, S.S. Elson; Vice-President, R. O'Malley; Secretary, A.S. Morrison; Treasurer, P. Moran; Executive Committee, E.F. Runnison, P.S. Hade, Michael Gerrity. President, Hiram M. Chase; Vice-President, H.N. Hahn; Secretary, A.L. Amberg; Treasurer, T.T. Gurney; Executive Committee, D.W. Manchester, M. McCurdy, Joseph Hogan.
"What did Gerrity do?" "He refused to serve, and they sent a squad of men after him and dragged him away. They took him to Camp Sheridan, and tried to put him in uniform, and he refused he wouldn't work, he wouldn't have anything to do with war.
Jimmie thought of all his friends at home who had denounced the military machine; he thought of Comrade Mary Allen, of Comrade Mabel Smith, and Comrade Evelyn Baskerville and Comrade Gerrity; he had rejected their advice, and now, if they could see what he was doing, how they would spurn him!
Jimmie was still bady dazed, but he saw enough to enable him to stammer, "Yes." And Comrade Baskerville that is, Comrade Mrs. Gerrity gave him her hand again. "Comrade Higgins," she said, "you're a dear, sweet fellow, and you won't be too angry with me, will you? We'll be friends, won't we, Comrade Higgins?"
Whatever they did, said Gerrity, they must keep their neutrality in this war; the one hope of the world just now was in the Socialist movement that it would preserve the international spirit, and point a war-torn world back to peace.
The police could ask Comrade Gerrity and Comrade Mary Allen, and the other members of the local. So the questioner led Jimmie on to talk about the Germans in the movement. Schneider, the brewer, for example he was one of those who cursed the Allies most vehemently, and he had been in this bomb-conspiracy.
Jimmie gulped twice, and then began, "Comrade Baskerville " And then he gulped again, and began, "Comrade Baskerville " She stopped him. "I'm not Comrade Baskerville," she declared. He could not get the meaning of these unexpected words. "What?" he said. "Haven't you heard the news?" she said, and beamed on him. "I'm Comrade Mrs. Gerrity." He stared at her, utterly bewildered.
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