lessness.

'I think we might save that,' Adela said. 'If I had the necessary
things--I should like to try, if you will let me.'

'Just as you please. I don't suppose the stuff they send us up will ever
be very eatable. But it's too bad to ask you to do work of that kind.'

'Oh, I shan't mind it in the least! It will be far better, better in
every way.'

Mutimer brightened up.

'In that case we'll only get them to do the housemaid work. You can
explain that to the woman; her name is Mrs. Gulliman.'

He paused.

'Think you can make yourself at home, here?'

'Yes, certainly.'

'That's all right. I shall go out now for an hour or so. You can unpack
your boxes and get things in order a bit.'

Adela had her interview with Mrs. Gulliman in the course of the
evening, and fresh arrangements were made, not perhaps to the landlady's
satisfaction, though she made a show of absorbing interest and vast
approval. She was ready to lend her pots and pans till Adela should have
made purchase of those articles.

Adela had the satisfaction of saving four shillings a week.

Two days later Mutimer sought eagerly in the 'Fiery Gross' for a report
of the proceedings at New Wanley. Only half a column was given to the
subject, the speeches being summarised. He had fully expected that the
week's 'leader' would be concerned with his affairs, but there was no
mention of him.

He bought the 'Tocsin.' Foremost stood an article headed, 'The Bursting
of a Soap Bubble.' It was a satirical review of the history of New
Wanley, signed by Comrade Roodhouse. He read in one place: 'Undertakings
of this kind, even if pursued with genuine enthusiasm, are worse than
useless; they are positively pernicious. They are half measures, and can
only result in delaying the Revolution. It is assumed that working-men
can be kept in a good temper with a little better housing and a little
more money. That is to aid the capitalists, to smooth over huge wrongs
with petty concessions, to cry peace where there is no peace. We know
this kind of thing of old. It is the whole system of wage-earning that
must be overthrown--the ideas which rule the relations of employers
and employed. Away with these palliatives; let us rejoice when we see
working men starving and ill-clad, for in that way their eyes will be
opened. The brute who gets the uttermost farthing out of the toil of his
wage-slaves is more a friend to us and our cause than any namby-pamby
Socialist, such