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They're listening to Wallingham just now because they admire him, but they won't listen to you. I doubt whether it will ever come to an issue over there. This time next year Wallingham will be sucking his thumbs and thinking of something else. No, it's not a thing to worry about politically, for it won't come through."
They were saying in the suburbs that they wanted it explained; at Hatfield they were saying, some of them, with folded arms, that it was self evident; other members of that great house, swinging their arms, called it blackness of darkness and ruin, so had a prophet divided it against itself. Wallingham, still in the Cabinet, was going up and down the country trying not to explain too much.
As nearly as he could determine by the sense of touch, it was seven o'clock. Bessie Wallingham would be wondering by this time why he had broken an engagement with her for the second time that day. "There is one thing more to do," he said.
She had the advantage of a free mind, only subconsciously occupied with her white wool and agile needles; and John had frequently to choose between her observations and the politics of the day. "You saw Lorne's letter this morning, Father?" John took his pipe out of his mouth. "Yes," he said. "He seems tremendously taken up with Wallingham. It was all Wallingham, from one end to the other."
"You'll find," said John Murchison, removing his pipe, "that protection'll have to come first over there. They'll put up a fence and save their trade in their own good time, not next week or next year and when they've done that they'll talk to us about our big ideas not before. And if Wallingham hadn't frightened them with the imperial job, he never would have got them to take up the other.
It was designed to show the sanitary construction of the Wallingham refrigerator. Orme remembered how Tom had explained it all to him on a previous visit to Chicago. This was merely a storage chamber. There was no connection with an ice-chamber, and there were none of the hooks and shelves which would make it complete for its purpose.
No, they had gone to Arradale and would probably remain until the last evening train. He rang off. It remained to try Arradale. After some delay, he got the clubhouse. Mrs. Wallingham? Yes, she had just come in. Would Mr. Orme hold the wire? Mr. Orme certainly would, and presently he was rewarded for the delay by hearing Bessie's brisk little voice. "Hello?" "Who?" "Bob?"
Lord Selkirk, who took them to Wallingham, dined them too, and invited them to one of those garden parties for the sumptuous scale of which he was so justly famed; the occasion we have already heard about, upon which royalty was present in two generations. They travelled to it by special train, a circumstance which made them grave, receptive, and even slightly ceremonious with one another.
The day Wallingham went his defiant furthest in the House and every colonial newspaper set it up in acclaiming headlines, Horace Williams, enterprising fellow, remembered that Lorne had seen the great man under circumstances that would probably pan out, and send round Rawlins.
The hour was close to five, and he must discover quickly where he could find the girl. He called up the Père Marquette. "This is Mr. Orme," he explained to the clerk. "Have there been any calls or messages for me?" "Yes, sir, Mr. and Mrs. Wallingham called up at twelve-thirty to know if you were going to Arradale with them." The golfing engagement!
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