We could paralyse trade from the Clyde to the Thames, if we thought it would do any good.
What's your text to-night, Mr.Maraton ?" "I haven't thought," Maraton replied.

"I have plenty to say to the people though." "You gave 'em what for in Chicago," Preston remarked, with a grin.
"I haven't been used to mince words," Maraton admitted.
"There's four thousand policemen told off to look after you," Henneford informed him.

"By-the-bye, is it true that Dale and all of them are coming up to-night ?" Maraton nodded.
"I wired for some of them," he assented.

"So long as I am going to make a definite pronouncement, they may as well hear it." "Been spending the week-end with Foley, haven't you ?" Preston enquired, closing his eyes a little.
Maraton nodded.

"Yes," he confessed, "I have been there." "There are many that don't think much of Foley," Henneford remarked.
"Myself I am not sure what to make of him.