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No
lights
burned
in
the
upper
hall
,
but
Brissenden
threaded
the
utter
blackness
like
a
familiar
ghost
.
He
stopped
to
speak
to
Martin
.
"
There
’
s
one
fellow
—
Stevens
—
a
theosophist
.
Makes
a
pretty
tangle
when
he
gets
going
.
Just
now
he
’
s
dish
-
washer
in
a
restaurant
.
Likes
a
good
cigar
.
I
’
ve
seen
him
eat
in
a
ten
-
cent
hash
-
house
and
pay
fifty
cents
for
the
cigar
he
smoked
afterward
.
I
’
ve
got
a
couple
in
my
pocket
for
him
,
if
he
shows
up
.
"
"
And
there
’
s
another
fellow
—
Parry
—
an
Australian
,
a
statistician
and
a
sporting
encyclopaedia
.
Ask
him
the
grain
output
of
Paraguay
for
1903
,
or
the
English
importation
of
sheetings
into
China
for
1890
,
or
at
what
weight
Jimmy
Britt
fought
Battling
Nelson
,
or
who
was
welter
-
weight
champion
of
the
United
States
in
’
68
,
and
you
’
ll
get
the
correct
answer
with
the
automatic
celerity
of
a
slot
-
machine
.
And
there
’
s
Andy
,
a
stone
-
mason
,
has
ideas
on
everything
,
a
good
chess
-
player
;
and
another
fellow
,
Harry
,
a
baker
,
red
hot
socialist
and
strong
union
man
.
By
the
way
,
you
remember
Cooks
’
and
Waiters
’
strike
—
Hamilton
was
the
chap
who
organized
that
union
and
precipitated
the
strike
—
planned
it
all
out
in
advance
,
right
here
in
Kreis
’
s
rooms
.
Did
it
just
for
the
fun
of
it
,
but
was
too
lazy
to
stay
by
the
union
.
Yet
he
could
have
risen
high
if
he
wanted
to
.
There
’
s
no
end
to
the
possibilities
in
that
man
—
if
he
weren
’
t
so
insuperably
lazy
.
"
Brissenden
advanced
through
the
darkness
till
a
thread
of
light
marked
the
threshold
of
a
door
.
A
knock
and
an
answer
opened
it
,
and
Martin
found
himself
shaking
hands
with
Kreis
,
a
handsome
brunette
man
,
with
dazzling
white
teeth
,
a
drooping
black
mustache
,
and
large
,
flashing
black
eyes
.
Mary
,
a
matronly
young
blonde
,
was
washing
dishes
in
the
little
back
room
that
served
for
kitchen
and
dining
room
.
The
front
room
served
as
bedchamber
and
living
room
.
Overhead
was
the
week
’
s
washing
,
hanging
in
festoons
so
low
that
Martin
did
not
see
at
first
the
two
men
talking
in
a
corner
.
They
hailed
Brissenden
and
his
demijohns
with
acclamation
,
and
,
on
being
introduced
,
Martin
learned
they
were
Andy
and
Parry
.
He
joined
them
and
listened
attentively
to
the
description
of
a
prize
-
fight
Parry
had
seen
the
night
before
;
while
Brissenden
,
in
his
glory
,
plunged
into
the
manufacture
of
a
toddy
and
the
serving
of
wine
and
whiskey
-
and
-
sodas
.
At
his
command
,
"
Bring
in
the
clan
,
"
Andy
departed
to
go
the
round
of
the
rooms
for
the
lodgers
.
"
We
’
re
lucky
that
most
of
them
are
here
,
"
Brissenden
whispered
to
Martin
.
"
There
’
s
Norton
and
Hamilton
;
come
on
and
meet
them
.
Stevens
isn
’
t
around
,
I
hear
.
I
’
m
going
to
get
them
started
on
monism
if
I
can
.
Wait
till
they
get
a
few
jolts
in
them
and
they
’
ll
warm
up
.
"
At
first
the
conversation
was
desultory
.
Nevertheless
Martin
could
not
fail
to
appreciate
the
keen
play
of
their
minds
.
They
were
men
with
opinions
,
though
the
opinions
often
clashed
,
and
,
though
they
were
witty
and
clever
,
they
were
not
superficial
.
He
swiftly
saw
,
no
matter
upon
what
they
talked
,
that
each
man
applied
the
correlation
of
knowledge
and
had
also
a
deep
-
seated
and
unified
conception
of
society
and
the
Cosmos
.
Nobody
manufactured
their
opinions
for
them
;
they
were
all
rebels
of
one
variety
or
another
,
and
their
lips
were
strangers
to
platitudes
.
Never
had
Martin
,
at
the
Morses
’
,
heard
so
amazing
a
range
of
topics
discussed
.
There
seemed
no
limit
save
time
to
the
things
they
were
alive
to
.
The
talk
wandered
from
Mrs
.
Humphry
Ward
’
s
new
book
to
Shaw
’
s
latest
play
,
through
the
future
of
the
drama
to
reminiscences
of
Mansfield
.
They
appreciated
or
sneered
at
the
morning
editorials
,
jumped
from
labor
conditions
in
New
Zealand
to
Henry
James
and
Brander
Matthews
,
passed
on
to
the
German
designs
in
the
Far
East
and
the
economic
aspect
of
the
Yellow
Peril
,
wrangled
over
the
German
elections
and
Bebel
’
s
last
speech
,
and
settled
down
to
local
politics
,
the
latest
plans
and
scandals
in
the
union
labor
party
administration
,
and
the
wires
that
were
pulled
to
bring
about
the
Coast
Seamen
’
s
strike
.
Martin
was
struck
by
the
inside
knowledge
they
possessed
.
They
knew
what
was
never
printed
in
the
newspapers
—
the
wires
and
strings
and
the
hidden
hands
that
made
the
puppets
dance
.
To
Martin
’
s
surprise
,
the
girl
,
Mary
,
joined
in
the
conversation
,
displaying
an
intelligence
he
had
never
encountered
in
the
few
women
he
had
met
.
They
talked
together
on
Swinburne
and
Rossetti
,
after
which
she
led
him
beyond
his
depth
into
the
by
-
paths
of
French
literature
.
His
revenge
came
when
she
defended
Maeterlinck
and
he
brought
into
action
the
carefully
-
thought
-
out
thesis
of
"
The
Shame
of
the
Sun
.
"
Several
other
men
had
dropped
in
,
and
the
air
was
thick
with
tobacco
smoke
,
when
Brissenden
waved
the
red
flag
.
"
Here
’
s
fresh
meat
for
your
axe
,
Kreis
,
"
he
said
;
"
a
rose
-
white
youth
with
the
ardor
of
a
lover
for
Herbert
Spencer
.
Make
a
Haeckelite
of
him
—
if
you
can
.
"
