There is really no ground, or little ground, for anxiety or alarm.

Let me give you the other side." Then he proceeded to set forth the resources of the business, the extent of his credit, his plans to meet the present situation and to prepare for possible emergencies.

"We are not at the wall yet, by any means, Jack," he said, his voice ringing out with a resolute courage.

"But I am bound to say that if any sudden or untoward combination of circumstances, a strike, for instance, should arise, disaster might follow." Jack's heart sank still lower.

He was practically certain that a strike was imminent.