[Better Dead by J. M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookBetter Dead CHAPTER IV 4/12
We speak in deeds.
The Brotherhood do not recognise the possibility of treachery; but they are prepared to cope with it if it comes.
Better far, Andrew Riach, to be in your grave, dead and rotten and forgotten, than a traitor to the cause." The president's voice trembled with solemnity. He stretched forth his hands, slowly repeating the words, "dead and rotten and forgotten," until his wandering eyes came to rest on the young man's neck. Andrew drew back a step and bowed silently, as he had seen many a father do at a christening in the kirk at Wheens. "You will shortly," continued the president, with a return to his ordinary manner, "hear an address on female suffrage from one of the noblest women in the land.
It will be your part to listen.
To-night you will both hear and see strange things.
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