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The test of love had been deceptive, the ordeal had failed, the verdict had been given against him. He went back to his chamber, where Dulac was still busily engaged in unpacking his valise, bade the astounded valet replace everything he had already taken out, and hurry at once to the Poste aux Chevaux to command horses for the return journey to The Hague.
"No, I haven't seen any signs of it yet.... And I'd be jealous if he did. I think I could manage to fall in love with him myself if " " he wasn't tied to me," interrupted Ruth, with a little whimper. "I I wish he knew about Mr. Dulac.... He wouldn't think so hard of me, maybe... if he knew I didn't never did love Mr. Dulac...."
I was enabled to shake the hands of Edgar Quinet, of Chauffour, of Clément Dulac, of Bancel, of Versigny, of Emile Péan, and I again met our energetic and honest host of the Rue Blanche, Coppens, and our courageous colleague, Pons Stande, whom we had lost sight of in the smoke of the battle.
I promised I would walk home with him." "Good night," said Bonbright. "His name is Dulac?" "Yes." Men like Dulac the work they were engaged upon had not fallen within the circle of Bonbright's experience. Bonbright's training and instincts had all been aristocratic. At Harvard he had belonged to the most exclusive clubs and had associated with youths of training similar to his.
For that she despised herself... despised herself the more because she knew now that she did not love Dulac, that she had never loved Dulac. That discovery had shocked and shaken her, and when she thought of what might have happened if she had gone with him a numbness of horror crept over her, leaving her cold and trembling. ... She would have gone, and she did not love him.
She must think, and she must talk with Dulac. Dulac was stronger than she but he saw eye to eye with her. The things she set up and worshiped in their shrines he worshiped more fervently.... She must put the boy off with evasion. She must postpone her answer until she was certain she saw her duty clearly.
Here every man was thinking as an individual; applying that five dollars a day to his own peculiar, personal affairs.... Already men were hurrying out of the hall to carry the amazing tidings home to their wives. Dulac stormed on. One thing was apparent to Bonbright. The men believed him. They believed he had spoken the truth. He had known they would believe him; somehow he had known that.
"We've stuck by you " "You've stuck by yourselves," Dulac cried. "Whatever you say.... But'tain't no use. We're licked. Hain't no use keepin' up and stretchin' out the sufferin'.... I hain't the least of the sufferers, Mr. Dulac my wife hain't with me no more." The dull voice wabbled queerly.
There was no dissenting voice. The strike was done, and Bonbright Foote, Incorporated, was victor. Men clustered about Dulac, wringing his hands, speaking words of comfort with voices that broke, and the number of those who turned away with tears was greater than of those whose eyes could remain dry. Dulac spoke. "We'll try again men.... We'll start to get ready to- day for another fight."
No fault found, either, nor could be, not if anybody was looking for it with a fine-tooth comb. Meanness, that's what I say. Nothing but meanness.... And us needing that fifteen dollars a week to keep the breath of life in us." "Don't worry about that, mother," Ruth said, quickly. "There are plenty of places " "Who fired you?" interrupted Dulac, his black eyes glowing angrily. "That young cub?"
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