The first part of your duty, Orden, is finished.

What else have you to say ?" "I am instructed," Julian announced, "to appeal to you to sue at once, through the Spanish Ambassador, for an armistice while these terms are considered and arrangements made for discussing them." "And if I refuse ?" "I will not evade even that question.

Of the twenty-three members of the new Council of Labour, twenty represent the Trades Unions of the great industries of the kingdom.

Those twenty will unanimously proclaim a general strike, if you should refuse the proposed armistice." "In other words," Mr.Stenson observed drily, "they will scuttle the ship themselves.

Do you approve of these tactics ?" "I decline to answer that question," Julian said, "but I would point out to you that when you acknowledged yourself defeated by the miners of South Wales, you pointed the way to some such crisis as this." "That may be true," Mr.Stenson acknowledged.