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And, anyhow, as he maintained now, Pethick had been both eavesdropping and lying about him. Incidentally, the latter was protesting to others that he had done the only thing which an honorable friend could do. It was a nine days' wonder in the club, and was only kept out of the newspapers by the most strenuous efforts on the part of the friends of both parties.
He should demand and exact proper satisfaction in some form or other by blows very likely if his honor had been in any way impugned. "What is it he says about my sister? What right has he to mention her name here, anyhow? He doesn't know her." Pethick affected to be greatly concerned lest he cause trouble between Callum and Hibbs.
Or indecorum would be hinted in the relations between this enigmatic woman, so prone seemingly to don male costume, and the burly clerk who attended her so faithfully and had brought her home on the night of Mrs. Pethick Lawrence's spirited raid.
Votes for Women returned to the control of the Pethick Lawrences, and the Pankhurst party to which Vivie belonged were to start a new press organ, The Suffragette. The Panks, it seemed, had a more acute fore-knowledge than the Peths.
"What's the matter?" "Well, you know," said the young individual, whose name was Richard Pethick, looking at Callum with a look of almost strained affection, "I wouldn't come to you with any story that I thought would hurt your feelings or that you oughtn't to know about, but I do think you ought to know about this." He pulled at a high white collar which was choking his neck.
"I know you wouldn't, Pethick," replied Callum; very much interested. "What is it? What's the point?" "Well, I don't like to say anything," replied Pethick, "but that fellow Hibbs is saying things around here about your sister." "What's that?" exclaimed Callum, straightening up in the most dynamic way and bethinking him of the approved social procedure in all such cases. He should be very angry.
But of course living all your life with a man like Joe Samson wouldn't be exactly cheering." "It is a very strange thing to think that she married Joe Samson after all her chances," remarked Susan. "She was much sought after when she was a girl. She used to boast to me that she had twenty-one beaus and Mr. Pethick." "What was Mr. Pethick?" "Well, he was a sort of hanger-on, Mrs.
Pethick, having evoked the storm, was not a little nervous as to its results in his own case. He, too, as well as Callum, himself as the tale-bearer, might now be involved. But Callum by now was not so easily restrained. His face was quite pale, and he was moving toward the old English grill-room, where Hibbs happened to be, consuming a brandy-and-soda with a friend of about his own age.
He looked at Pethick, whom he knew to be the tale-bearer, and the latter exclaimed, excitedly: "Now don't you try to deny it, Hibbs. You know I heard you?" "Well, what did I say?" asked Hibbs, defiantly. "Well, what did you say?" interrupted Callum, grimly, transferring the conversation to himself. "That's just what I want to know."
It was decided in the innermost arcana of the Home Office that an example should be made of Vivie. They had evidently in her got hold of something far more dangerous than a Pankhurst or a Pethick Lawrence, a Constance Lytton or an Emily Davison.
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