to marry him she bowed firmly after knowing you less than two weeks yes what kind of a fellow is he � a rough mill i suppose he is a christian she answered simply by which you mean a roman catholic it is the only true church said she he would make fun of religion as you do he was growing very uneasy but � you do not love him tell me that you do not i do not love him she repeated aad he caught in his arms and you do love me tou a � aiid i do love you he could hardly contain himself for joy b� it why do you say such disagreeable things v she laughed and seemed quite contented again it is you who are cross she said you looked as if you were going to bite me when i said the ceiling was low in my bedroom do you think i am to blame for it i have done exactly as you told me i surely did not tell you to sleep with miss he smiled nor to with her brother she laughed again i had to sleep with somebody and i couldn t take my choice there are rats in the house so i wouldn t sleep alone anyway one jumped out of my shoe this morning as i was going to put it on as for i didn t with him at all i couldn t help him asking me though it was rather sudden then he got her to talking about and she told him again what a wonderful woman she was and how everybody obeyed her as if she were a queen she spoke of also and of converse the when he spoke of you as a he almost frightened me she said i could not bear to think of you as one of those men who get rich by the poor you ll never do that will you if you do i could never love you again and now what do you say about the strike he asked will they hold out long do you think the question seemed to her of course they will she cried they will never up � i heard them say so over and over in the great meeting last night the mill owners will have to pay the old wages or keep their mills closed speaking of what makes your friend do their dirty for them i thought him a nice sort of man here was news worth having from undoubtedly honest sources what do they say about he they don t say very much about him � won t let them she likes him and that is what nobody seems to understand he is the agent who has locked us all out but tries to stop all talk against him i think that will make trouble before we get through converse is the worst about it it was when he was talking on that subject that he used your name what did he say he was standing on the with a big crowd and he said something like this i ain t going to have a woman s love affair spoil this strike without a protest then the people around him said hush and looked frightened i don t care he went on he s brought a young with him too that s you and got him up at the big house along with a lady who has got a fortune made out of poor like us but he can do anything he likes of course and w mustn t say a word because he s s lover ther some of the men offered to strike him � they were mad � and do you know came up just in time when they told what converse had said he looked as black as any of them for a minute but finally he told us to go off as quietly as we could and not say a � about it to any one we all promised and � there � i ve been and told you another secret s face which had grown rather at the ir allusion to himself grew brighter as it encountered the look on hers it will no though the girl continued von a t you are on our side against the even if you do live in the house with the agent i you would join our society they couldn t say any more against you after that what society the sons and daughters of toil she replied with absolute sincerity i fear i am hardly eligible he replied his smile i have never labored very much you know they took m said she i joined a week ago and t know they would be glad to have you let me take your name in i would be delighted if i might had the greatest difficulty to preserve his at all not quite yet he said i want to look into the matter a little before i apply for admission but tell me what said to you you didn t tell her about � of course grew serious i told her there was � somebody she said couldn t help it she got it out of me before i knew it you can t keep anything from supposing she should ask you if you were in on false the girl s color deepened if i came here that way she said it is over now am with as fully as any of them not a will hold out longer than i i have never been happier than since i began to earn an honest living his face grew very long again and where does all this leave me oh she cried i wish you were � very poor � that you had to work and that we speaking of like these people i see about me i 