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It was an unfortunate word for the success of the interview. "'Must, eh?" repeated Mr. Maitland with rising wrath. "I'd have you know, McNish, that the man doesn't live that says 'must' to me in regard to the men I choose to manage my business." "Then you refuse to remove yere foreman?" "Most emphatically, I do," said Mr. Maitland with glints of fire in his blue eyes.
And those who led ye are worse, for they have lost us the strike, if that is any satisfaction tae ye. And now ye want to do another fule thing. Ye're mad just because ye didn't know enough to keep out of the wet." But at this point, a man fighting his way from the rear of the crowd, once more raised the cry "Scabs!" "Keep that fool quiet," said McNish sharply.
I suggest you proceed regularly and call the meeting to order," said McNish quietly. Simmons, recognising that it was Greek meeting Greek, agreed to this. Clumsily and hesitatingly Brother Phillips began stating the business of the Committee. He had not gone far before Simmons interrupted. "Mr. Brother Simmons' tone suggested infinite pity for the lumbering efforts of the chairman.
But that union of yours, Maitland, with both parties represented in it, is a big idea. It is worth considering. What do you think about it, McNish?" "What do I think of it? It is sheer idealistic nonsense." "It is a noble idea, laddie, and no to be sneered at, but A doot it needs a better world for it than we hae at the present." "I am afraid that is true," said the minister.
McNish alone was prepared for this dramatic announcement, although they all knew that Maitland sooner or later would assume a position which would link him up with the management of the business. But the suddenness of the change and the dramatic setting of the announcement created an impression so profound as to neutralise completely the effect of McNish's masterly speech.
After a moment's hesitation he shrugged his shoulders and followed. The move caught the eye and apparently the approval of the audience, for it broke into cheers which gathered in volume till by the time that McNish and Captain Jack stood on the platform the great majority were wildly yelling their enthusiastic approval of their action. McNish stood with his hand raised for a hearing.
"It is easy for you to make men mad about you." "Not many," said the girl, still softly smiling. McNish went toward the door of the sick room as if approaching a holy shrine, walking softly and reverently. "Go in, lucky man," said Adrien. "Go in, and thank God for your good fortune." He paused at the door, turned about and looked at her with grave eyes.
The word passed from lip to lip among the crowd, which still held motionless and silent. "We'll get her into the office," said Maitland. "A'll tak her," said McNish, and, stopping down, he lifted her tenderly in his arms, stood for a moment facing the crowd, and then in a voice of unutterable sadness that told of a broken heart, he said: "Ye've killed her. Ye've killed the puir lassie.
"There is more than the cost of living to be considered. There is the question of the standard of living. Why should it be considered right that the standard of living for the working man should be lower than that for the professional man or the capitalist?" "There you are again, McNish," said the minister. "You are not up to your usual to-night.
By this time it had fully been borne in upon Captain Jack's mind, somewhat dazed by the unexpected attack, that he was the occasion of the uproar. Rising from his place he tried vainly to catch the Chairman's attention. "Come up to the platform," said a voice in his ear. He turned and saw McNish shouldering his way through the excited crowd toward the front.
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