"He doesn't like change, for one thing. But I don't know anything
about politics. Suzette says--"
"Will he try to keep him from being elected?"
"He won't support him. Of course I hardly think he would oppose
him. I really don't understand about those things."
"You mean you don't understand him. Well, I do, mother. He has
run everything, including father, for so long--"
"Lily!"
"I must, mother. Why, out at the camp--" She checked herself.
"All the papers say the city is badly governed, and that he is
responsible. And now he is going to fight his own son! The more I
think about it, the more I understand about Aunt Elinor. Mother,
where do they live?"
Grace looked apprehensively toward the door. "You are not allowed
to visit her."
"You do."
"That's different. And I only go once or twice a year."
"Just because she married a poor man, a man whose father--"
"Not at all. That is all dead and buried. He is a very dangerous
man. He is running a Socialist newspaper, and now he is inciting
the mill men to strike. He is preaching terrible things. I haven't
been there for months."
"What do you mean by terrible things, mother?"
"Your father says it amounts to a revolution.
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