Ordinarily, he would have taken part in the work and volunteered as a speaker, but now, anxious to keep out of sight, he counted merely on forming one of the crowd.

There could be little danger, thought he, in such a mass.

Despite the recent stringent censorship and military rule of the district by the new Mounted Police, a huge gathering was expected.

The big railway and lake-traffic strikes, both recently lost, had produced keen resentment, and, as political and economic power had been narrowed here, as all over the country, in these last few months of on-sweeping capitalist domination, the Socialist movement had been growing ever more and more swiftly.
"It will be worth seeing," thought Gabriel, as he stood outside the lodging-house where he had taken a room for the night.

The workers are surely awakening, at last.