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From the point of view of the state's good name, I doubt which is worst, her present attitude or the interference of federal force." "Will it come to the latter in any event?" "Undoubtedly. They've already tried to prevent the delivery of Mr. Rathbawne's mail, both at the mills and at his house. You know what that means, don't you?
Considering that the difficulty would be due entirely to the obstinacy of one man er one might not feel justified" He hesitated briefly under the Lieutenant-Governor's keen glance, and then swerved from this line of suggestion. "What I wanted to say was this: You are a friend of Mr. Rathbawne's, something more than a friend, indeed. No doubt he has a respect for your opinion, as you have for his.
In detail, his voice ringing with enthusiasm and confidence, he described the interview of that morning, his statement of Rathbawne's position, his passage at arms with McGrath, finally, the Governor's announcement that the strike was to be supervised by his lieutenant in his stead. "I had almost lost hope," he concluded.
He stumbled forward, and would have fallen, but that his daughter caught him. To his dying day Barclay remembered how, as he sprang to aid her, her hands gleamed, white and slender, against the black of Peter Rathbawne's coat. The hush that followed was broken presently by the sound of the old man's choking sobs, and the low, soothing tones of Natalie, murmuring against his ear.
The Lieutenant-Governor straightened himself instinctively, as, for the first time, he addressed himself to the agitator. "Mr. McGrath," he said, "my confidence in Mr. Rathbawne's fairness and integrity would have led me to approve any course which he might have seen fit to take. As you have already heard me say, I had absolutely no intention of endeavoring to influence his judgment.
"What I did come to say," went on Cavendish, more steadily, "is that your life and Mr. Rathbawne's are in danger. You're to be put out of the way, both of you, before twelve to-night. McGrath's determined on it, and there's no lack of men to carry out his orders. The strikers are desperate. I overheard their talk, while well, while I was getting drunk! What's that?"
"I should think it was quite time. Dad, you remember Mr. Cavendish, don't you?" "Yes," answered her father. "Oh, yes!" Rathbawne's voice was without life, his face almost wholly void of expression.
A man in Peter Rathbawne's position has a responsibility to fulfill toward the community. He cannot beggar men for a caprice because his horse has gone lame, or his breakfast has not agreed with him. He must show reasons give an accounting. He must be fair." "Oh, when it comes to fairness," laughed the other, "I assure you, Governor Abbott, you won't find Mr.
Reduced to its lowest terms, the struggle was one between Rathbawne and McGrath, and that, not as representatives the one of a great industrial, the other of a great socialistic organization, but as individuals. The source of the stream which had thus reached its rapids, and was plunging on toward its annihilating cataract, lay far back in the early days of Rathbawne's commercial career.
Thenceforward, Alleghenia meant much to Colonel Broadcastle, and Colonel Broadcastle considerably more than much to Alleghenia. Something of all this went through the Lieutenant-Governor's mind during the progress of the dinner. He sat at Mrs. Rathbawne's right, than which nothing in the world could have been more cheerless, unless it was sitting at Mrs. Rathbawne's left.
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