In the end the
nucleus of the new Vigilance Committee was formed there.
Not immediately. The idea was of slow growth even with its
originator, and it only reached the point of speech when Mr.
Hendricks stopped in one day at the pharmacy and brought a bundle
which he slapped down on the prescription desk.
"Read that dynamite," he said, his face flushed and lowering. "A
man I know got it translated for me. Read it and then tell me
whether I'm an alarmist and a plain fool, or if it means trouble
around here."
There was no question in Willy Cameron's mind as to which it meant.
Louis Akers had by that time announced his candidacy for Mayor, and
organized labor was behind him to an alarming extent. When Willy
Cameron went with Pink to the club that afternoon, he found Akers
under discussion, and he heard some facts about that gentleman's
private life which left him silent and morose. Pink knew nothing
of Lily's friendship with Akers. Indeed, Pink did not know that
Lily was in the city, and Willy Cameron had not undeceived him. It
had pleased Anthony Cardew to announce in the press that Lily was
making a round of visits, and the secret was not his to divulge.
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