m in generous, worshipful
admiration. She would not have dared let him see; she would not have
dared speak the phrases of adoration of his genius that crowded to her
lips. How he would have laughed at her--he who thought about himself
as a personality not at all, but only as an instrument.

"Here's the rest of it," said he, throwing himself back in his chair
and relighting his pipe.

She finished a moment later, said as she laid the manuscript on the
table: "That's the best you've ever done."

"I think so," agreed he. "It seems to me I've got a new grip on
things. I needed a turn such as your friend Davy Hull gave me.
Nothing like rivalry to spur a man on. The old crowd was so
stupid--cunning, but stupid. But Hull injects a new element into the
struggle. To beat him we've got to use our best brains."

"We've got to attack him," said Selma. "After all, he is the enemy.
We can't let him disarm us by an act of justice."

"No, indeed," said Victor. "But we'll have to be careful. Here's what
I'm going to carry on the first page."

He held up a sheet of paper on which he had written with a view to
effective display the names of the four most offensive local
corporations with their contribution--$25,000 each--to the campaign
fund of the Citizens' Alliance. "Under it, in big type," proceeded he,
"we'll carry a line asking, 'Is the Citizens' Alliance fooling these
four corporations or is it fooling the people?' I think that will be
more effective than columns of attack."

"We ought to get that out on wall-bills and dodgers," suggested Selma,
"and deluge the town with it once or twice a week until election."

"Splendid!" exclaimed Victor. "I'll make a practical politician of you
yet."

Colman and Harbinger and Jocelyn and several others of the League
leaders came in one at a time, and the plan of campaign was developed
in detail. But the force they chiefly relied upon was the influence of
their twelve hundred men, their four or five thousand women and young
men and girls, talking every day and evening, each man or woman or
youth with those with whom he came into contact. This "army of
education" was disciplined, was educated, knew just what arguments to
use, had been cautioned against disputes, against arousing foolish
antagonisms. The League had nothing to conceal, no object to gain but
the government of Remsen City by and for its citizens--well paved, well
lighted, clean streets, sanitary houses, good