His companion shuffled after him.

Kurt stared at them, thinking the while that if he had needed any proof of the crookedness of the I.W.W.he had seen it in Glidden's guilty face.
The man had been suddenly frightened, and surprise, too, had been prominent in his countenance.

Then Kurt remembered how Anderson had intimated that the secrets of the I.W.W.had been long hidden.

Kurt, keen and quick in his sensibilities, divined that there was something powerful back of this Glidden's cunning and assurance.

Could it be only the power of a new labor organization?
That might well be great, but the idea did not convince Kurt.