Moreton. Tomes thought he
ought to be put straight out of the house. Didn't you, Tomes?"
"No, sir," said Tomes, who was getting used to his employer, although
he did not encourage this sort of thing, particularly before the
footmen.
"Well, Moreton came in and said, very simply--"
"Has he good manners, father?"
"He has no manners at all," roared Eddie.
"Oh, how nice," said Crystal, of whom it might be asserted without
flattery that she now understood in perfection the art of irritating
Eddie.
"He is very direct and natural," her father continued. "He has a lot
more punch than your brother-in-law, my dear. In fact, I was rather
impressed with the young fellow until he and Eddie fell to quarreling.
Things did not go so well, then."
"You mean," said Crystal, the gossip rather getting the best of the
reformer in her, "that he lost his temper horribly?"
"I should say he did," said Eddie.
"Well, Eddie, you know you were not perfectly calm," answered Cord.
"Let us say that they both lost their tempers, which is strange, for
as far as I could see they were agreed on many essentials. They both
believe that one class in the community ought to govern the other.
They both believe the world is in a very bad way; only, according to
Eddie, we are going to have chaos if capital loses its control of
the situation; and according to Moreton we are going to have chaos
if labor doesn't get control.
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