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Updated: May 23, 2025
The old country fell into the lines of his imagination, from the towers of Westminster to the shops in the Strand; from the Right Hon. Fawcett Wallingham, who laid great issues before the public, to the man who sang melancholy hymns to the same public up and down the benevolent streets.
If you would not serve with Wallingham the greatness of Britain you were held to favour going over to the United States; there was no middle course. It became a personal matter in the ward schools and small boys pursued small boys with hateful cries of "Annexationist!" The subject even trickled about the apple-barrels and potato-bags of the market square.
Nor was it the sort of thing they got from Wallingham, the keen-eyed and probing, whose skill in adjusting conflicting interests could astonish even their expectation, and whose vision of the essentials of the future could lift even their enthusiasm. One would like to linger over their touch with Wallingham, that fusion of energy with energy, that straight, satisfying, accomplishing dart.
But he was young, with the curiosity and enterprise and impatience of dogma of youth; he belonged by temperament and situation to those plastic thousands in whom Wallingham hoped to find the leaven that should leaven the whole lump.
After getting back to the apartment, Orme's first thought was to telephone to Bessie Wallingham. He decided, however, to wait till after dinner. He did not like to appear too eager. So he went down to the public dining-room and ate what was placed before him, and returned to his apartment just at dusk. In a few moments he got Bessie Wallingham on the wire. "Why, Robert Orme!" she exclaimed.
Here the ice tinkled in cool glasses, and women laughed happily, and every one was under the spell of the velvety summer evening; but he had looked into the face of Love and the face of Death and both were still near to his heart. He found a servant and asked for the Wallinghams. "Mr. Wallingham has left, sir," said the man, "but Mrs. Wallingham is here." "Ask her if Mr. Orme may speak to her."
Wallingham, though he still supported the disabilities of a right honourable evangelist with a gospel of his own, was making astonishing conversions; the edifice of the national economic creed seemed coming over at the top. It was a question of the resistance of the base, and the world was watching. "Cruickshank says if the main question had been sprung a month ago we wouldn't have gone over.
I don't believe I shall find our men so far behind, for point of view and grasp and dispatch. Of course there's always Wallingham to make a standard for us all. But they haven't got so many Wallinghams." "Wasn't it Wallingham, Louisa, that Mr Milburn was saying at breakfast was such a dangerous man? So able, he said, but dangerous. Something to do with the tariff."
They adore Wallingham over there he's pretty nearly a god and they'd like to do as he tells them, and they're dead sick of theoretic politics; but they're afraid oh, they're afraid!" "They'll do well to ca' canny," said John Murchison. "There's two things in the way, at a glance," Lorne went on.
"I know a Tom Wallingham and a Bessie Wallingham." "They're good friends of mine. Don't you think that they might introduce us?" "They might," she vouchsafed, "if they happened to see us both at the same time." Orme returned to his task. The crowd that always gathers was now close about them, and there was little opportunity for talk. He finished his job neatly, and stowed away the old tire.
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