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"Do you know who the Sewing Aid Association is?" "No." "It's John M. Gibbs! That's who it is!" "Yell louder, Shearson. It may save you from apoplexy," advised McGuire Ellis with tender solicitude. "And we lose every line of the Boston Store advertising, that I worked so hard to get back." "That'll hurt," allowed Ellis. "Hurt! It draws blood, that does.
Daniel Burton to take charge of it?" "Oh, Miss Dorothy, if we only could!" "It would be so fine for Mr. Keith, and for all the others. I've been hearing everywhere how wonderfully he got hold of John McGuire." "He did, he did," cried Susan, "an' he was like a different man all the time he was doin' it. He hain't had no use for his paintin' lately, an' he's been so uneasy.
"Well, I am damned!" was McGuire Ellis's astounded and none too low-voiced comment upon this bold perversion of the "Clarion" enterprise. Stretching upward from his seat he looked about for Hal. The young editor sat in a far corner, his regard somberly intent upon the speaker. "Alarm there has undoubtedly been, and is," pursued Dr. Surtaine.
Susan's instantly alert attention was most flattering. "Sho! You don't say! Poems?" "I don't know." Mrs. McGuire drew back and spoke a little coldly. Now that the secret was out, Mrs. McGuire was troubled evidently with qualms of conscience. "He never said much. He didn't want it talked about." Susan drew a long breath. "Yes, I know. 'Tain't so pleasant if folks know when you can't sell 'em.
The runabout turned and slipped along cautiously to the rear, watchful for byways. At the cross-road McGuire was out again. His match, held close to the mud and gravel, revealed the tread of familiar tires. "All right, sir," he briefly reported. "The other edition went this track." With a twist of the wheel Benton was again on the trail.
These "sections," with a maximum membership which probably never exceeded a thousand, nearly all foreigners, became a preparatory school in trade union leadership for many of the later organizers and leaders of the American Federation of Labor: for example, Adolph Strasser, the German cigar maker, whose organization became the new model in trade unionism, and P.J. McGuire, the American-born carpenter, who founded the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and who was for many years the secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor.
"Have they?" said Pat. "Then they'll go back, I'm thinkin'. Where are they?" But there was no need of a reply, as their voices were already audible from below, talking with Mrs. McGuire. The distance was so trifling that they had seen Phil enter the house, and the padrone, having a contempt for the physical powers of woman, followed boldly. They met Mrs. McGuire at the door.
"What's the use of bein' a widower," he continued, "if you can't even have your own way in your own house, I'd just like to know? I have to eat odds and ends of cold victuals out here in the woodshed, or anywhere Mary McGuire happens to drop 'em." "That's tough luck, Mr. Jackson. You just come over to dinner with Donald and me and have a square meal." "I'd like to awful well, Mrs.
"I'm going to beat it for my bunk," he announced. "Let me know when the sheriff is gone." "Sit where you are, Denver. McGuire ain't going to lay hands on you." "Sure he ain't," agreed Denver. "But I ain't partial to having guys lay eyes on me, neither. Some of you can go out and beat up trouble. I like to stay put." And he glided out of the room with no more noise than a sliding shadow.
My gracious, Susan, if you had four children same as I have, instead of one, I guess you wouldn't do no worryin' jest because a boy didn't read a book. Though, as for my John, he " Susan lifted her chin. "I wasn't talkin' about your children, Mis' McGuire," she interrupted. "An' I reckon nobody'd do no worryin' if they didn't read. But Master Keith is a different supposition entirely.
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