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Yet when, at the end of the week, a meeting of the executive committee was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, the founder, John Crondall, was able to submit a list of close upon six hundred sworn members of The Citizens; and, of these, I suppose fully five hundred were men of high standing in the world of politics, the Services, commerce, and the professions.
John Crondall interviewed the editors of most of the leading London newspapers during that week, and thereby earned a discreet measure of journalistic support for his campaign. There was a great need of discretion here, for our papers were carefully studied in Berlin, as well as by the German Generals commanding the various English towns now occupied by the Kaiser's troops.
I know that the very outline of her figure and the loose hair of her head seemed at once intimately familiar and inexpressibly sacred and beautiful to me. Looking down upon them caused a kind of mist to rise before my eyes. It was as though I feared to lose possession of my faculties. That must end, I felt, or an end would come to all reserve and loyalty to John Crondall.
Stairs assured us that his fainting was of no consequence, and that he felt perfectly fit and well again. "You see it was something of an ordeal for me, a nobody from nowhere, to face such an assembly." "Well," said John Crondall, "I suppose that at this moment there is not a man in London who is much more a somebody, and less a nobody from nowhere." "You think we succeeded, then?"
Crondall for every one part due to us." "And to his secretary," said Stairs. "It really is no more than bare truth. Without you, Crondall, there would have been no Albert Hall for us." "And no Bishop," added Reynolds. "And no great personages." "And no columns and columns of newspaper announcements."
Of course, England's wealth is still great, and her recuperative powers are wonderful; but John Crondall holds that, in spite of that, submission to nine years of German occupation and German tribute-paying will mean the end of the British Empire." "And he feels that the people must be stirred into seeing that and acting on it?"
I suffered no change so far as Constance Grey's demeanour to me was concerned; but certainly John Crondall had altered since the day upon which I had so inopportunely entered his room when Constance was with him. At times I fancied his change was toward me personally, and I thought it curiously unlike the man to cherish any sort of unkindness over an accident.
She did not look at me, and her voice was very low; but there was some quality in it which thrilled me through and through, as I stood at her side. "But now, of course, I know But why have you never told me, Constance?" "I am just as free now as then, Dick." "Why, Constance! But, John Crondall?" "He is my friend, just as he is yours." "But I but he "
But the Canadian preachers taught a far more practical faith than that; and, behind them, John Crondall and his workers opened the door upon a path more urgent and direct than that of any pilgrimage; the path to be trodden by all British citizens who respected the white hairs of their fathers, and the innocent trust of their children; the path of Duty to God and King and Empire; the path for all who could hear and understand the call of our own blood.
The attendance will depend to some extent on the success of this afternoon, but, to judge from the newspapers and the talk one hears, I should say it would be enormous." Just before we left the flat Crondall told us a secret. "You know they have a volunteer choir of fifty voices?" he said. "It was Stairs's idea, and he has carried it out alone.
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