It sometimes seemed to Mary that the whole dike was beginning to crack....

Even Jove must have felt a sense of awe when he saw the effect of his first thunderbolt....
"If they would only go slowly," she uneasily told herself, "it would be all right.

But if they go too fast..." She made a helpless gesture--again the gesture of those who have started something which they can't stop--but just before she went home that evening she received a telegram which relieved the tension.
"May we confer with you Monday at your office regarding situation at New Bethel ?" That was the telegram.

It was signed by three leaders of labour--the same men, Mary remembered, whom Judge Cutler had seen when he had visited headquarters.
"Splendid men, all of them," she remembered him reporting.

"I'm sure you'd like them, Mary." "Perhaps they'll be able to help," she told herself.