"I helped set it, with
him pretending to be all worked up, for the doctor to see. He got
rid of me all right. He's got one of his spies there now, a
Bolshevik like himself. You can ask the neighbors."
Howard was out, and when the woman had gone Anthony ordered his
car. Lily, frightened by the look on his face, made only one
protest.
"You mustn't go alone," she said. "Let me go, too. Or take
Grayson--anybody."
But he went alone; in the hall he picked up his hat and stick, and
drew on his gloves.
"What is the house number?"
Lily told him and he went out, moving deliberately, like a man who
has made up his mind to follow a certain course, but to keep himself
well in hand.
CHAPTER XXXIII
Acting on Willy Cameron's suggestion, Dan Boyd retained his
membership in the union and frequented the meetings. He learned
various things, that the strike vote had been padded, for instance,
and that the Radicals had taken advantage of the absence of some
of the conservative leaders to secure such support as they had
received. He found the better class of workmen dissatisfied and
unhappy. Some of them, men who loved their tools, had resented
the order to put them down where they were and walk out, and this
resentment, childish as it seemed, was an expression of their
general dissatisfaction with the autocracy they had themselves
built up.
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