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They almost tumbled over one another now in their haste to reach where their tongues could play freely. Kilshaw and Perry, the Treasurer and the waverers, all slipped out, and Norburn, knowing nothing but simply wearied of Puttock, followed them. Scarce twenty were left in the House, and the galleries had poured half their contents into the great room which served for a lobby outside.
"You refused it?" he was asked. "Yes, I refused it. I spoke to him once again, when we met on a social occasion. We had a sort of dispute then. I never saw him again to speak to." "It was all done," said Mr. Duncombe, describing the scene, "in a repressed way that was very effective to a house that knew the circumstances most effective. And the other fellow Kilshaw he gave some sport too.
Almost every one has one or two matters which he would rather not discuss with his own conscience; and his bargain with Benham was one of these tabooed topics to Kilshaw. For, in spite of what he had done in this instance, he belonged to a class which some righteous and superior people will have it does not exist.
She could never be subject to the degradation the dead man had once hinted at; and when he thought of what the man had threatened, pity for him died out of Medland's heart. More although Kilshaw no doubt knew something there was a chance that Benham had kept his own counsel, and that his employer would be helpless without his aid.
Shorn of him, as it had been shorn of Puttock, the Government would stand revealed as the organ and expression of the Labour Party and nothing else, and Perry and Kilshaw doubted not that six or eight members of the House would be found to enter the "cave," if Coxon showed them the way. Then, "Why then," said Mr. Kilshaw to his conscience, "we need not use that brute Benham at all!
I tell you what it is, Coxon, and you must stop me if you don't like to hear it I shall always consider Medland got your support on false pretences." Coxon did not stop him. He sat and bit his finger-nail while Kilshaw pointed out the discrepancies between what Medland had foreshadowed and what he was doing.
In the Park he met Captain Heseltine, also mounted and looking very hot. The Captain mopped his face, and waved an accusing arm towards an inhospitable eucalyptus. "Call that a tree!" he said. "The beastly thing doesn't give a ha'porth of shade." "It's the best we've got," replied Kilshaw, in ironical apology for his country.
Large concerns are delicate concerns." "Come, Kilshaw, Puttock's a capitalist; he'll see Capital isn't wronged." "Puttock is all very well in his way; but what do you say to Jewell and Norburn?" "Jewell's an old-style Radical: he won't do you much harm. You hit the nail on the head when you mention Norburn.
The evening papers announced the resignation and its impending acceptance, and further stated that the rumour was that the Premier had convened a meeting of his remaining followers to consider their position. "They may consider all night," said Mr. Kilshaw, "but they can't change a minority into a majority," and he hailed a cab to take him home. Suddenly he was touched on the shoulder.
"And they call this free speech!" cried Big Todd. "Get on with you," said the officer. "Now's your time," remarked the Captain. "Slip in between the two lines and you'll get through." Kilshaw and his volunteer escort accepted the suggestion, and, linking arms, walked down-stairs. The Captain, after a brief inward struggle, followed them.
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