Manufacturers who have been struggling to
keep their places open at all are planning extensions already. The
wages bill throughout the country will be the largest next week that has
been paid for years. Travellers are off to the Colonies with cases of
samples--every manufacturing centre is suddenly alive once more. The
terrible struggle for existence is lightened. Next week," Brooks
continued, with an almost boyish twinkle in his eyes, "I shall go down
to Medchester and walk through the streets where it used to make our
hearts ache to see the unemployed waiting about like dumb suffering
cattle. It will be a holiday--a glorious holiday."
"And yet behind it all," she remarked, watching him closely, "there is
something on your mind. What is it?"
He looked at her quickly.
"What an observation."
"Won't you tell me?"
He shook his head.
"It is only one of the smallest cupboards," he said. "The ghost will
very soon be stifled."
She sighed.
"Did you see Lord Arranmore this evening?"
"Yes. He was talking to the duke just now. What of him?"
"I have been watching him.
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