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"He has followed me here uninvited for reasons of his own. I asked for Mr. Bixby, whom I know. I would have asked for Mr. Wallingham, my personal friend, but that I had already learned of his being at Arradale." "There's funny business here somewhere," exclaimed Alcatrante, with great earnestness.
I expect it's an outside figure and it covers all sorts of qualifying circumstances; but it's the one the Free Fooders quote, and it's the one Wallingham will have to handle. They've muddled along until they've GOT twelve million people in that condition, and now they have to carry on with the handicap. We ask them to put a tax on foreign food to develop our wheat areas and cattle ranges.
It will be thus, no doubt, that the workingman will explain in the future his eminent usefulness to the government of his country, and it will be in these terms that the cost of educating him by means of the ballot will be demonstrated. Meanwhile we may look on and cultivate philosophy; or we may make war upon the gods with Mr Wallingham which is, perhaps, the better part.
But Orme had no ears for what the sympathetic German said. One word had made his heart leap. "Arradale!" There he was to have dined with Tom and Bessie Wallingham! He had forgotten them utterly. Were they still at the golf club? Possibly, and, in any event, if he could reach the club, he would be near a railroad. "How far is Arradale?" he asked. "Halb-miles. Und vere did you say der hurt man vas?"
Wallingham and explain everything. I will pay for a new thermometer, too, if he will let me." "I don't think he will let you do that," said the clerk. "He will be grateful that nothing worse happened." "Yes, I believe he will," replied Orme. He glanced at the clock. It was a quarter after seven.
Circumstances may arise any day, however, to stir up that latent bitterness which is so potential in him: and then I fear there will be no restraining him from again attacking Wallingham in the papers.
Pacific communications the home Government was more chary of; there were matters to be fought out with Australia. The Pacific was further away, as Cruickshank said, and you naturally can't get fellows who have never been there to see the country under the Selkirks and south of the Bay any of them except Wallingham, who had never been there either, but whose imagination took views of the falcon.
There had been Wallingham meetings of remarkable enthusiasm; his supporters called them epoch-making, as if epochs were made of cheers. But the workingman of Great Britain was declaring stolidly in the by-elections against any favour to colonial produce at his expense, thereby showing himself one of those humble instruments that Providence uses for the downfall of arrogant empires.
As Orme walked away, he stopped now and then to look back. Poritol did not move, and Orme long carried the picture of that kneeling figure. "Who was it?" asked Bessie Wallingham, as he climbed back over the fence. "A puppy with sharp teeth," he replied, thinking of what the girl had said. "We might as well forget him."
Politics and love are thought of at opposite poles, and Wallingham perhaps would have laughed to know that he owed an exalted allegiance in part to a half-broken heart.
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