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Crossan actually scowled at Clithering. I expected that he would arrest him at once. There might have been, for all I knew, a Committee of Public Safety sitting in the Town Hall. I could imagine Crossan hauling the unfortunate Clithering before it on a charge of communicating with the Prime Minister.
Crossan having been taught the Church Catechism in his youth, admits this respect as theoretical duty; but gets out of performing it in practice by denying that Godfrey, or for the matter of that any one else, is his better. Godfrey's constant complaints about Crossan are the thorns which remind me that I must not regard my lot in life as altogether pleasant.
On my way back to my hotel I ran into a congregation which had just got out of some church or other. In the first rank they were marching in very fair order was Crossan. He saluted me and stopped. "I'm thinking," he said, "that you won't have seen them." He pointed to a small group of men who were bringing up the rear of the congregation's march.
I could scarcely suppose that they were full of gorgets for distribution among Orangemen, defensive armour proof against the particular kind of stabs which Crossan anticipated. Godfrey called on me the next morning in a white heat of righteous indignation. He had received an answer to the letter which he wrote to Conroy.
I am the principal shareholder, and nothing pleases me better than to see the store succeeding." I knew, as a matter of fact, that Crossan had no coal. I also knew that the Finola was not coaling. The carts were loaded when they were going up the hill. They would have been empty if they had been going to get coal for the Finola.
I could imagine Clithering, heroic to the last, waving his incriminating telegram in the faces of his judges. Bland saved the situation. "Come along, Colonel," he said. "Show me where that court martial of yours is sitting. Lord Kilmore will restrain this lunatic till we get back." Crossan may have been pleased at being addressed as Colonel.
If a body of "Papishes" of the bloodiest kind were to come upon Crossan and capture him; if they were to condemn him to death and, being God-fearing men, were to allow him half an hour in which to make his soul; he would spend the time, not in saying his prayers, not even in cursing the Pope, but in balancing the accounts of the co-operative store, so that any auditor who took over the books afterwards might find everything in order.
He is managing these different enterprises in such a way that they earn fair interest on the capital I put into them. "I've been looking into things a bit, Excellency," said Godfrey. I quite believed that. The deputation of carters said the same thing in other words. "And you'll find yourself in an awkward place one of these days if that fellow Crossan is allowed to go on as he's going."
I met Crossan, who saluted me gravely. "The provisional Government," he said, "desires your lordship's presence in the City Hall." "I'm glad there's a provisional Government," I said. "We want something of the sort. Do you happen to know if I'm a member of it?" "I've been looking for you, my lord," said Crossan, severely, "for over an hour, and there's no time to waste." I hurried off.
"I hope, Excellency," he said, "that you will take the first chance you get of speaking to Crossan." In sudden gratitude for escaping a wrangle about Marion and Bob Power I promised hurriedly that I would speak to Crossan. I was sorry afterwards that I did promise. Still, I very much wished to know what was in the packing-cases. I did not really believe it was artificial manure.
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