"Good morning," he said; and
then: "I thought you told me this fellow Carpenter was not a red?"
"Well," said I, taken by surprise, "is he?"
"God Almighty!" said the other. "What do you call this?" And he held
up a copy of the "Times." "Going in and shouting in the middle of a
church service, and trying to knock down a clergyman!"
I could not help laughing in the man's face. "So even you labor men
believe what you read in the 'Times'! It happens I was present in
the church myself, and I assure you that Carpenter offered no
resistance, and neither did anyone else in his group. You remember,
I told you he was a man of peace, and that was all I told you."
"Well," said the other, somewhat more mildly, "even so, we can't
stand for this kind of thing. That's no way to accomplish anything.
A whole lot of our members are Catholics, and what will they make of
carryings-on like this? We're trying to persuade people that we're a
law-abiding organization, and that our officials are men of sense."
"I see," said I.
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