Evening star., 1897-02-06

)SER, L SUPPOSE"
spot, 1T was the last thing that went before
Jessie died. We pawned it, thinking we d
get it back again, but Ah'il never take it
back. Ah'm glad it's gone. All couldn't
WHAT'S VIVA away, but O. what's here Ye'rc
still thir kim ye can do somcthin' for the
workln' man by organization"
I'm sure of it."
Braunt shook his head
o. re won't. my lad, but Ahll do my best
70 get We the chance ia try. Just look at
Wnat has happened. They let Gibbons 20
without word; he was a fool, perhaps,
dont even say thankee. An they'll do the
one." "" oily
NJ 1T all depends on how they are led.
When men are fooIishly led, they soon find
out and lose confidence. Think what a
man like Napoleon might have accom-
piished If he had led workingmen instead
OF soldiers. and had turned his talents to
Detterlng ms fellow men instead of butcher
ing them!" " ''V'
Napoleon could have done nothin'. He
couid have done nothin wi soldiers, even.
II ~ II mad not been for one power which ye
can never have"
What Is that?"
The power O. orderin a man out O. the
ranks. an havin him shot If Ah'd that
them anythin' they wanted The state viii
let you slowly starve a hundred men to
oeath ana never interfere. but If ye shot
even Gibbons there'd be a row about it.
An yet we think we're civilized All saw
we're savages."
oh, that's wrong. Brauntr' cried Mar
sten, rising. We're long past that stage.
Il! II get the reorganizing of the union, I'll
!ry ran with Sartwell some day. and will
down him without shooting anybody
very well, lad. Ahll do ma best for We,
an wish We luck.
Pro,, III
Marsten was unanimously made secretary
o! the union by men who had looked upon
MIN as a traitor only few weeks before
Chapter xxi.
Marsten made no move to communicate
with Sartwell. If the manager expected
the young man to propose a compromise he
was disappointed, and when he heard Mars
ten had been elected secretary of the union
he smiled grimly, but made no comment.
1t was to be war to the knife, and Sartwell
always admired an able antagonist. He
made no motion against the union, although
at that time he could probably have forced
20 per cent of his employees to withdraw
from 1t, had he been SO minded. Marsten
gave him due credit for declining to use the
weapon or coercion against the men, know
ing Sartwe!l too well to believe that the
thought had not occurred to him. Yet there
ness about the manager, as his wife had
with truth often pointed out to him: he
pursued an enemy to the bitter end Glib
bons metaphorically prostrated himself be-
the works from which Marsten had been
e1ected. He was starving. he said. Sart-
we'll replied that he was glad to hear IT.
and hoped Gibbons would now appreciate
the sunerings OF the men he had so jauat-
lily led astray; SO Gibbons had again hu-
inflated himself for nothing.
To do Sartwell justice however, 1t must
be admitted that the attempted manage
ment OF Marsten had slipped out of his
hands in way he had never anticfpated
He did not dislike the young man; in truth
quite the opposite; still, he had higher, am
billions for his only daughter thap ID see
her marry one Of his own workuiaI The
Incident Of finding Marsten witfrS Edna in
the garden had dis. .urbed him morcsI than he
cared to admit, even to himself. If this
persistent young fellow managed when
half starved, in the turmoil of the strike,
to attend so successfully to his love affair,
what might not happen when he was at
peace with the world and had money In his
pocket? Sartwell could have forbidden his
daughter to see Marsten, and doubtless she
would have obeyed; but he was loath to
pique her curiosity regarding the reason for
the prohibition, and he could not BADLY tell
her the young man craVed permission to
pay his addresses to her; that might set
her fancy afire, with disastrous results to
her fathers hopes. Sartwell only half ex-
pected MarSten would appeal to him against
his discharge, but he knew that before the
young fellow got another situation he must
refer his new masters to his old manager,
and when that time came, or If Marsten
made q move on his own account, Sartwell
stood ready to make terms with him. If
Marsten promised not to see the girl for
two years the manager would reinstate
him, or would help him to secure another
place.
All these plans went to pieces when the
men Unexpectedly chose Marsten as secre-
tary of their union. 1t was a contingency
the manager had not counted upon, but he
faced the new position of affairs without a
murmur against fate.
Marsten thought his dismissal harsh and
unjust, but he felt that it freed him from
all consideration toward Sartwell. He
now determined to meet the girl whenever
and wherever he could; SO, with this pur-
pose strong in his heart, he went to VIM
bledon, boldly presented himself at the
front door, and asked to see Miss Sartwell
He knew her father did not dare tell her
the true state Of the case. and, If it came
to that, permission to visit the house had
already been given in Edna's own pres
probably not withdrawn when Marsten
left them together In the garden as such
withdrawal would necessitate explanations
which Sartwell would not believe it wise
to make.
Therefore the young man resolved to see
the girl, tell her frankly why he came, and
plead his cause with her Even II she re-
fused to listen to him, he would at least