If the movement
continue we shall see miserable examples of weakness led astray by
popularity, of despicable qualities aping greatness.'
He paused somewhat abruptly, for he was thinking of Mutimer, and did
not wish to make the application too obvious. Hubert restrained a
smile.
They parted shortly after, but not till Hubert had put one more
question.
'Do you, or do you not, approve of what I am doing down in the
valley?'
Mr. Wyvern thought a moment, and replied gravely:
'You being yourself, I approve it heartily. It will gladden my eyes
to see the grass growing when spring comes round.'
He shook Hubert's hand affectionately and left him.
CHAPTER XXX
We must concern ourselves for a little with the affairs of our old
acquaintance, Daniel Dabbs.
Daniel's disillusionment with regard to Richard Mutimer did not
affect his regularity of attendance at the Socialist lectures, in
most things a typical English mechanic, be was especially so in his
relation to the extreme politics of which he declared himself a
supporter. He became a Socialist because his friend Dick was one;
when that was no longer a reason, he numbered himself among the
followers of Comrade Roodhouse--first as a sort of angry protest,
against Mutimer's private treachery, then again because he had got
into the habit of listening to inflammatory discourses every Sunday
night, and on the whole found it a pleasant way of passing the
evening.
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