She brought the money to the fund for the
babies of the strikers; nor did she ask anyone else to hand it in
for her. It was Mary's fashion to look the world in the eye and say
what she was doing.
T-S was still hanging about, and at first he tried to check this
insane extravagance, but then he thought it over and grinned,
saying, "I git my tousand dollars back in advertising!" When I
pointed out to him what would be the interpretation placed by
newspaper gossip on Mary's intervention in the affairs of Carpenter,
he grinned still more widely. "Ain't he got a right to be in love
vit Mary? All de vorld's in love vit Mary!" And of course, there was
a newspaper reporter standing by his side, so that this remark went
out to the world as semi-official comment!
You understand that by this time the second edition of the papers
was on the streets, and it was known that the new prophet was at the
Labor Temple. Curiosity seekers came filtering in, among them half a
dozen more reporters, and as many camera men.
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