22/38 I have something to say to you." The something was said. It amounted to this--"Stand by me and I'll stand by you." "Well, sir," said Henry, "I think I must leave you if the committees refuse my offer. It is hard for one man to fight a couple of trades in such a place as this. But I'm firm in one thing: until those that govern the unions say 'no' to my offer, I shall go on working, and the scum of the trades sha'n't frighten me away from my forge." "That's right; let the blackguards bluster. |