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(Continued from page 358.) publishers of the New "Somebody's put soft-soap in the boiler," International Encyclopæ explained Lanigan. "We'll have to shut down He started for the engine-room, followed dia, the most useful and limped in just before them and sat down, still practical Encyclopædia in English, invite correspondence with energetic, educated men capable of presenting this work to business and professional men. holding his stomach. "Well, by whom?" angrily urged Wells. Wells turned to Lanigan, pale with passion. "Yes, sir," answered Lanigan, dazed, Previous experience not necessary. We train and fit each man for the work assigned him. The New International Encyclopædia is new, is well and favorably known. 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To go among the mob outside the stockade meant nothing short of death in the present humor of the strikers. He was tired of it all, anyhow, and Maggie and Oh, well, suppose it did, he wearily reflected. Danny would be better off. He had the insurance policy safely in his pocket. IX While Lanigan was being accused of a double treachery, Tremont had been narrowly watching Red Coleman, and, as Wells furiously ordered the engineer off the company's property, he saw Red's eyes light up with a gleam of satisfaction. "Wait a moment," suddenly interposed Tremont. "There's something queer here." "Queer?" snorted Wells. "I should say there was! After Lanigan goes we'll investigate this thing to the bottom." Wilks, the Wilks whom Lanigan had thrashed, "If Lanigan goes I go, too!" he declared, Lanigan had not. Wilks had not. 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Lanigan raced down and brought up the padlock with the key still sticking in it. "I can't help it if Lanigan had two keys," said Red, shrugging his shoulders. He had the better of it so far. Wilks allowed him to clamber to his feet. In the tussle, the bib of Red's overalls had been torn loose. His flannel shirt had been torn open, and a bent red card protruded from an improvised inside pocket. Wilks and Red saw it at the same time, and there was a fierce struggle in which Wilks secured the card, though it was crumpled and torn in two. He hastily passed it to Underwood' while still holding Red, who was now snarling like a wild beast. Underwood pieced the card together, read it, and with a significant smile handed it to Mr. Wells. "Do not molest bearer, no matter where found," slowly read Wells, pausing to adjust his glasses. "He is acting for the good of the order-Evans." 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The plant was short-handed, and the men they had were miserable substitutes for the intelligent workmen who had grown up in the place. They were falling behind hopelessly in their contracts. Wells wanted to give up, but Tremont held on with dogged determination, though even he had moments of wavering. "It's suicidal to give up," he urged. "If we let these fellows get the whip-hand we shall never again be our own masters. The more we give them the more they will want.' There was wavering without as well as within the stockade. The winter dragged on, hard and pitiless. The relief fund was kept drained, and there was untold suffering in households that had a right to good food and warm clothing. The organization. began to show signs of disintegration. A few of the men slipped inside the stockade and went to work. More left the city to search in other fields. The balance, as time wore on, grew desperate. Down in the engine-room Lanigan was happy. Frequent letters from the country told that the wife and boy were getting along splendidly. Danny was playing outdoors, now, warmly clad and enjoying the snow like any other boy. Maggie herself had not believed it possible that she would ever be so well. If they only had him with them That was the black cloud on his horizon. When should he ever see them again? Obviously not so long as the strike held. An epidemic of intestinal grippe broke out in the city. The men in the stockade, wellfed, well-housed, leading necessarily regular lives, suffered but slightly from it, but there was terrible havoc in the homes where want. dwelt. Enthusiasm was dead. Men wanted work, and they would have it. The strike was broken. In mass-meeting the men voted to concede every point except a minor one "that the company would be glad to grant them." Desperate as they were, the men were united on making the ousting of the traitors a condition. Tremont, Wells & Tremont agreed to a conference. The committee, when they came, agreed to accept the old hours and rate of wages and explained their one condition. "But there are a few of our own deserters among the lot," Evans went on. "We must insist on those men being discharged." Tremont studied gravely over the matter. "Look here, Evans, what you really mean is Lanigan, isn't it?" "Well, yes, it's Lanigan, I suppose," Evans finally confessed. "You can't have him," curtly replied Tre"He shall have a job here as long as mont. The Sanitol Chemical Laboratory Company the plant runs, if he wants it." St. Louis, Mo. There was more than merely Lanigan behind this contention. Tremont was bound to achieve a complete mastery, Evans bound to gain some concession, no matter how slight. "Then we can't come to an agreement," declared Evans. Good-day, gentlemen," suavely remarked Tremont, and they filed from the office. 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It had come at last, this thing that he had been expecting. When Underwood had told him, the day before, that the men offered to yield every point, "with one minor exception," he knew what the exception was as well as if he had heard the words. He knew what the roar meant, too. The "minor concession" had been refused, and he felt a thrill of gratitude toward Tremont, toward all of them-they had been very kind to him. What was to be the end of it? He looked the thing squarely in the face. He, only, stood in the way. Perhaps there were half a dozen others, but he was the chief offender. What could he do for Maggie and Danny, or they for themselves? They were neither one of them strong enough to do anything but beg, and he suddenly remembered, with grim irony, that WHITELAW'S SANITARY of the body. If you want the hair to grow on every other part of the body. the scalp the blood must be made to circulate there. It is exercise which makes the blood circulate. 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