"You don't suspect how close we are to revolution.

Yet that glorious rising of our comrades in Russia might have warned you.

But your class, of course, never is warned." "Dear me!" broke in Harvey D."You don't mean to say that conditions are as bad here as they were in Russia ?" "Worse--a thousand times worse," replied Merle.

"We have here an autocracy more hateful, more hideous in its injustices, than ever the Romanoffs dreamed of.

And how much longer do you think these serfs of ours will suffer it?
I tell you they are roused this instant! They await only a word!" "Are you going to speak it ?" demanded Sharon.
"Now, now!" soothed Harvey D.as Merle turned heatedly upon Sharon, who thus escaped blasting.
"I am not here to be baited," protested Merle.
"Of course not, my boy," said the distressed Harvey D.
Merle faced the latter.
"I need not say that this decision of yours--this abrupt withdrawal, of your cooperation--must make a profound difference in our relations.