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Accordingly, it was with no thought of interference with his privacy that I blundered into my chief's sitting-room to announce the number of new members we had enrolled after the meeting. John Crondall was standing on the hearth-rug, his right hand was resting on Constance Grey's shoulder, his lips were touching her forehead. For an instant I thought of retreat. But the thing seemed too clumsy.
"And ours," said Crondall, sharp as steel, "is to ram home your teaching, and to show them that the nearest duty to their hand is their duty to the State, to the Race, to their children the duty of freeing England and throwing over German dominion." "To render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's," said Reynolds. And Stairs nodded agreement.
I said to Constance, after running through the two-column telegram from Washington, of which this passage formed part. "I don't know about that; but you see, Dick, this thing clearly comes from the American people, not her politicians and diplomatists only. That is what gives it its tremendous importance, I think." "Yes; to be sure. And why does John Crondall want the offer declined?"
Her expression had changed instantly, and I told myself I had no sort of business to be thrilled by a look which was obviously born of reverie, of thoughts about John Crondall. Such a sweet light of love her eyes held!
"Things you can do! By George, I should think so!" said Crondall. "I shall look to you to capture the women; and if we get the women, it will surprise me if we don't get the men as well. Besides, don't you fancy I have forgotten your prowess as a speaker in Cape Town and Pretoria. You remember that meeting of your father's, when you saved him from the wrath of Vrow Bischoff?
There are so many in England who have neither seen nor felt anything of the blow we have had." And here I told them something of what I had seen and heard in Dorset; how remote and unreal the whole thing was to folk there. "That's it, exactly," continued Crondall. "That's one difficulty which has just got to be overcome.
Several doctors had volunteered their services, and from one of them I learned that the fainting fit was no more than the momentary result of an exceptional strain of excitement. Within half an hour, Stairs and Reynolds were both resting comfortably in a private sitting-room at a neighbouring hotel, and there I visited them, with Constance Grey and Mrs. Van Homrey, and John Crondall.
I have no words to tell you how glad I am about this. I see John Crondall's hand here, don't you?" "Yes," I said; and thought: "Naturally! You see John Crondall everywhere." "He was dead against any sort of an Alliance while we were under a cloud. And he was right. The British people couldn't afford to enter any compact upon terms of less than perfect equality and independence.
John Crondall had gone thoroughly into the matter at the beginning with the editor of this journal, and the key-note thus given was taken by the Press of the whole country.
John Crondall was able to announce a credit balance of ten thousand pounds, with powers to overdraw under guarantee at the Bank of England. A simple code of membership rules and objects was drawn up for publication, and a short code of secret rules was formed, by which every sworn member was to be bound.
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