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What a mysterious labyrinth was this Trade confederacy, into which he had put his foot so rashly, and shown his game, like a novice, to the subtle and crafty Grotait. He now collected all his powers, not to injure Little, but to slip out of his own blunder.
But of course she could not go without talking. She met an acquaintance not far from the door, and told her Ned was near his end, and she was going to tell the gentlemen. Dan Tucker stepped up to this woman, and she was as open-mouthed to him as Eliza had been to her. Dan went directly with the news to Grotait.
Grotait. At noon the next day, all the grinders aforesaid in Mr. Cheetham's employ walked into the office, and left, each of them, a signed paper to this effect: "This is to give you notice that I will leave your service a week after the date thereof." Cheetham asked several of them what was up. Some replied civilly, it was a trade matter. Others suggested Mr.
"I have been to your friend Grotait, and asked him to pay you for what you call time lost in hanging and racing a new stone. He won't do it. That's your FRIEND. Now I'm your ENEMY; so the Union says. Well, enemy or not, I'll do what Grotait won't. I'll pay you the four shillings for lost time, if you will stop that stone at once, and hang another." "Why, what's wrong with the stone?"
There is no society, however distinguished, in which Grotait would not have been accepted as a polished and admirable converser. Add to this that he had an art, which was never quite common, but is now becoming rare, of making his guests feel his friends for the time, at all events.
That gentleman was much pleased at the discovery, and said, "Ah, but who employed him? That is what you must discover." "I will try," said Henry. "The poor fellow had half a mind to make a clean breast; but I didn't like to worry him over it." Returning home he fell in with Grotait and Parkin.
Then they chaffered about the price, and at last Grotait agreed to give him L20. Cole went to Coventry, and told how far Grotait would allow him to go: "But," said he, "L20 is not enough. I run an even chance of being hung or lagged." "Go a step beyond your instructions, and I'll give you a hundred pounds."
Thus instructed, Tucker went to the other men, and soon reported to Grotait that he had got Cole all right, but that Simmons looked coldly on the job. He was in full work, for one thing, and said Little had had his squeak already, and he didn't see following him eleven miles off; he had, however, asked him whether Little had a wife and children, which question he, Tucker, could not answer.
His terms were accepted, and then he made some tremendous revelations and, with these in his possession, Holdfast wrote leader upon leader, to prove that the Unions must have been guilty of every Trade outrage that had taken place for years in the district; but adroitly concealing that he had positive information. Grotait replied incautiously, and got worsted before the public.
They lingered on, however, and still Grotait sat at the foot of the bed, with his glittering eye fixed on the dying man. Presently Simmons became silent, and reflected. "Who offered me the job to do Little?" said he, in a clear rational voice. "Yes," said Mr. Holdfast. "And who paid you to blow up the forge?" Simmons made no reply.
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