If I acceded to all the others, what would your position be?
The railway strike is of little consequence to a foreign nation.

The coal strike, and the iron and steel works of Sheffield and Leeds closed--that's where English trade would suffer most, especially if the cotton people came out." Mr.Beldeman shook his head slowly.

"My conditions," he said, "embrace the railways." "Somehow, I fancied that they would," Maraton remarked.

"Tell me why ?" Beldeman rose slowly to his feet.
"Are you an Englishman ?" he asked.
"I can't deny it," Maraton replied.

"I was born abroad.