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So she up and went to her room and took out all Thomas's letters, and sure enough it was true." Akers paused, and then very slowly extracted a fat pocket-book from his tight-fitting coat, and pulled out a letter beautifully written on thin paper.
"So it is Akers and Howard Cardew, and one's a knave and one's a poor bet." "Right," said Mr. Hendricks. "And one's Bolshevist, if I know anything, and the other is capital, and has about as much chance as a rich man to get through the eye of a needle." Which was slightly mixed, owing to a repressed excitement now making itself evident in Mr. Hendricks's voice.
When Lily had been at home for some time, and Louis Akers had made no attempt to see her, or to announce the marriage, the vigilance of the household began to relax. Howard Cardew had already consulted the family lawyer about an annulment, and that gentleman had sent a letter to Akers, which had received no reply.
Is he a pleasant man personally?" "I dare say he is pleasant enough at a dinner-table, and I'll allow that he is varry unpleasant at a piece table in the Town Hall. But webs of stuff and pieces of cloth naturally lock up a man's best self. He wouldn't hev got back to be Akers of Akerside if things wern't that way ordered." This Club news troubled John.
"Fighting?" "Per aspera ad astra," put in Louis Akers. "You cannot change a world in a day, without revolution " "But you don't believe that revolution is ever worth while, do you?" "If it would drive starvation and wretchedness from the world, yes." Lily found Louis Akers interesting. Certainly he was very handsome. And after all, why should there be misery and hunger in the world?
Don't you see that you must go home at once? You can't dine here in a private suite, like this, and not expose yourself to all sorts of talk." "Go on," said Akers, leering. "I like to hear you." "Especially," continued Willy Cameron, "with a man like this."
He remembered a night at the camp, when some of the troops had departed for over-seas, and he had found her alone and crying in her hut. "I just can't let them go," she had sobbed. "I just can't. Some of them will never come back." Wasn't there something of that spirit in her now, the feeling that she could not let Akers go, lest worse befall him? He did not know.
I understood what he meant, suddenly felt a little spark of pride, and answered: "I can't; I promised to be in Bernt Akers Street at half-past seven, and...." "Half-past seven, quite so; but it's eight now. Here I am, standing with the watch in my hand that I'm going to pawn. So, in with you, you hungry sinner! I'll get you five shillings anyhow," and he pushed me in. Part III
You try to tell us that there is an organized movement here to do heaven knows what, and by sheer terror you build up a machine which appeals to the public imagination. You don't say anything about votes, but you see that they vote for your man. Isn't that true?" "Yes. If they can keep an anarchist out of office. Akers is an anarchist.
If he'd suggest arming them with pop bottles and attacking that gang of anarchists at the cobbler's down the street, they'd do it this minute." "All right, son," he offered. "We'll combine. Anything you say goes. And we'll get the Jim Doyle-Woslosky-Louis Akers outfit first. I know a first-class brick wall " "Akers?" said Willy Cameron. "Do you know him?" "I do," said Hendricks.
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