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As to the incidents which had happened during the fortnight Louis Craven's return, and the scandal of the "People's Banking Company" they had troubled and distressed her; but it would not be true to say that they had had any part in shaping her slow determination. Louis Craven was sore and bitter. She was very sorry for him; and his reports of the Damesley strikers made her miserable.
Wharton, on the subject of the Damesley strike. You give me leave?" Whereupon, in less than ten minutes, the speaker had executed an important commission, and, in offering Wharton a bribe of the most bare-faced kind, had also found time for supplying him with a number of the most delicate and sufficient excuses for taking it. The masters, in fact, sent an embassy.
"I know you admired him that he had given you cause. But my mind has been on fire ever since I came back from those Damesley scenes!" She offered no reply. Silence fell upon all three for a minute or two; and in the twilight each could hardly distinguish the others. Every now and then the passionate tears rose in Marcella's eyes; her heart contracted.
At night he went down to the Clarion office, and produced a leader on the position of affairs at Damesley which, to the practised eye, contained one paragraph but one only wherein the dawn of a new policy might have been discerned. Naturally the juxtaposition of events at the moment gave him considerable anxiety. He knew very well that the Damesley bargain could not be kept waiting.
For what made the whole thing the more annoying was that the Clarion had never been so important politically, never so much read by the persons on whom Wharton's parliamentary future depended, as it was at this moment. The advocacy of the Damesley strike had been so far a stroke of business for Wharton as a Labour Member.
But for her presence in his life he would probably have gone heiress-hunting with the least possible delay. As it was, his growing determination to win her, together with his advocacy of the Damesley workers amply sufficed, during the days that followed his evening talk with Lady Selina, to maintain his own illusions about himself and so to keep up the zest of life.
Surrender on the Damesley question would give great offence to many of the Labour members. It would have to be very carefully managed very carefully thought out. By eleven o'clock on Monday he was in Mr. Pearson's office.
Put briefly, they amount to this: that during the recent strike at Damesley the support of the Clarion newspaper, of which Mr. Wharton is owner and practically editor, was bought by the employers in return for certain shares in the new Syndicate; that the money for these shares which is put as high as 20,000 l. had already gone into Mr.
He was thankful, at any rate, that Louis in this two years' interval had finally transferred his heart elsewhere. After watching his three companions for a while, he broke in upon their chat with an abrupt "What is this job, Louis?" "I told you. I am to investigate, report, and back up the Damesley strike, or rather the strike that begins at Damesley next week."
"All right!" said Louis, whose manner had entirely changed since Wharton had left the room. "I am to go down on Monday to report the Damesley strike that is to be. A month's trial, and then a salary two hundred a year. Oh! it'll do." He fidgeted and looked away from his brother, as though trying to hide his pleasure. But in spite of him it transformed every line of the pinched and worn face.
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