asy persons who had been informing one another that they wanted to be shown! Mr. Lanigan's unconventional methods in the chair were tolerated because he had displayed much alacrity in putting t

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his color at this time," he remarked. "But when I have seen it waved in times past I have known that it meant a blast going off or a train coming on, and I have n

again he ordered Mr. Wei

n Lanigan and addressed all in hearing, shaking his fist over his head: "Who tells me dis vhat I d

declared Lanigan, loyally. "That's the way we do thi

l valk into der State House und sit on his seat? He don't get it. Why don'd dey

isner! Don't stand there and be a Dutch wind

. "Lanigan, ye may not be able to reply satisfact'rily to th' questions o' the sour-krauters, but when I ask ye whether or not the Hon'rable Danyel O'Donnell, r

f a natural impulse to run with his kind, to swing the cudgel vali

ce in th' halls o' state and shout ear-rly and late, 'Whativer it is ye're about, gents, it all may be very well, but what

there, ye mean!"

blood o' yer

r questions. I ask you no questions. I'm going to tell you something-and it's so! If the kids in your family was down with the measles, and the missus was all snarled up with the tickdoolooroo and you wasn't feeling none too well yourself, what with a hold-over, a black eye, and a lot o' bumps, what would you-

rights and wrongs of

ye! My family is America, Mulcahy! It ought to be yours, first, last, and all the time. But we've got our own aches to mind, right now! And the way I'm putting it

ther men were on their feet, shouting. But a top sergeant has a voice of his

sion at the door assisted him. The crowd parted.

sle toward the platform

cheers-plen

ory hisses were threaded with the frank clamor

rm and marched to Lanigan, doffing the s

reaming down into his eyes. "It's been like hauling a seventy-fiv

g with the applause when

h the stairs. "I'm going to wade through this gras

somewhere dared to t

than a position on the floor. "We must fix that! Furthermore, it's hot up here!" He pulled off his top-coat. He realized that the full display of his formal dress only aggravated the situation. In St. Ronan's mill he mingled with men in his shirt-sleeves. He turned and saw Nicolai Krylovensky in the chair where Lanigan had thrust him. There

e engaged wi

et the garments slip to th

wn to business together

out?" Stewart in

"I've just been up against the bunch here, Mister Mayor, and they're trying to turn it into a congress-of-n

dropped down here merely in a business way to find out

half cocked twice to-day. I've been thinking it over and I realize it. In your office I grabbed in on a word or two you said and took it for granted that you were going to lift the

d not

t I'd get you down here to back up my word. I don't ask you to b

that both you and I mean all right. I did give you good reasons for jumping at conclusions as you say you di

n't allow others to shout. Most of us don't know what it means, anyway, and others don't care, so long as it gives 'em a chance to stir up riots and grab off something for themselves under cover of the trouble. There are a lot of outsiders in this country, standing

arl Trimbach gets dot se

s as to th' Hon'rable

ent M

not pr

king common, human fife of the mob spirit, persistently present and consistently cowardly in conceal

to claw a pass

nded Stewart. "Don't flatter a fo

o make trouble in this city befor

clared Mulcahy. "Ye can't get a square

up a monito

r he's a resident or comes here because it's the capital of the state. And I'll see to it that the men up at the State House end understand that they must play fair for the good of all of us. You must understand the same at this end. I'll take no sides in politics. The men who are entitled to thei

ell of assen

a contract! Min

Krylovensky. The alien leaped up and k

my friend!" expo

med the man. "I'll be a m

he frantic person. "I'm s

his narrow fanaticism were now whirling in his brain; sitting there on high before the eyes of his fellows, the men to whom he had been preaching the doctrines of soviet sovereignty-

ed to pick up the garments Krylovensky dove forward and struck the mayor's face with

restraining hands on the man who wa

ame milling tow

rtyr!" insist

d Morrison, in the tone of a father denyin

Krylovensky from him with one hand and put

n lets another man bang

n with

o be argued later by us

Stand

do it." Lanigan was showing the bitter disappointment of

tions. Stand back, all of you, I say!" He twisted the grip of hi

n this city?"

"And I shook him down this evening for a g

ing refuge from the crowd massing on the platform. Morrison caught his eye.

w the reneg

to mine. I'd like to know something about this gentlema

ess burned out of him by the fires of his martyr zeal. "I'm an

reserved hi

late! When you picked up such a good command of our language, my friend, it's too bad you didn't pick up a better under

his attendance on his controlling luminary in public places, even though the luminary issued no spec

ut him and found Re

ef. "Take him along with you, keep harm from him on the way, and see that

stated the policeman, pulling his club from

Lanigan's mumbled threa

o

he hi

inspected them, and dusted them with his palm;

sted, bellicosely. "When a

let me tell you something! Unless you put yourself in better shape there'll be a fellow some day that you'll

e feller, M

in the gl

is that what

ht to be done, you'll have the righ

a side wag of his head and

he limousine. "By reason of this people-side-partner notion of yours, you have gone to

but I had to put it strong. A mealy-mout

t they have a right to demand, to boss their betters, to call fo

contract-that's what I

t and let m

ng single-handed the political powers! You can't deliver the goods! That gan

t pocket. He was soothing himself with a s

en the night is still you