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Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958

"Dangerous Days"


He was confused, too. Rudolph's arguments always confused him.
He was confused that night, heavy with fatigue and with Rudolph's
steady talk in his ear. He was tired of pondering great questions,
tired of hearing about the Spencers and the money they were making.
Anna's clothing was scattered about the room, and he frowned at
it. She spent too much money on her clothes. Always sewing at
something -
He stooped down to gather up his shoes, and his ear thus brought
close to the table was conscious in the silence of a faint
rhythmical sound. He stood up and looked about. Then he moved
the newspaper on the table. Underneath it, forgotten in her
anxiety and trouble, lay the little gold watch.
He picked it up, still following his train of thought. It fitted
into the evening's inflammable proceedings. So, with such
trinkets as this, capital would silence the cry of labor for its
just share in the products of its skill and strength! It would
bribe, and cheaply. Ten dollars, perhaps, that ticking insult.


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