lock, and I shall expect every one of you to be in place; I have
agreed to your terms."

Hugh looked at the superintendent a moment and then asked a singular
question:

"Is it because I found Dollie that you agree to our terms?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"Because, if that is the reason, I will not accept the terms, for you
would be doing out of gratitude an act which your judgment condemned."

Harvey Bradley felt his respect for this man increase tenfold. Such
manliness was worthy of all admiration. He hastened to add:

"There's where, I am glad to say, you are in error. Now you know as
well as I do that in order to keep discipline the employer must insist
upon his rights. If he were to give all that is asked his business
would be destroyed. But, on the other hand, labor has rights as well
as capital, and the two can never get along together until this truth
is respected by both. In all disputes, there should be an interchange
of views, a full statement of grievances by those who are dissatisfied,
and a fair consideration of them by the party against whom they exist."

O'Hara was not afraid to look his employer in the face and say:

"That has been my opinion all along, Mr. Bradley, and had it been yours
this lock-out would never have come."

"I admit it. You came to me from the employes and asked for a
discussion of the differences between us. I thought you insolent, and
refused to listen to you. Therein I did you all an injustice, for
which I apologize."

"It gives me joy to hear you speak thus, Mr. Bradley."

"Seeing now my mistake, there is but the one course before me. I am
convinced that in all cases of trouble like ours the court of first
resort should be arbitration. The wish to be just is natural to every
one, or at least to the majority of mankind. If the parties concerned
cannot agree, they should appeal to those in whom both have confidence
to bring about an agreement between them; that is according to the
golden rule. Employer and employed, labor and capital, should be
friends, and arbitration is the agent that shall bring about that happy
state of things."

"But I do not see that there has been any arbitration in this dispute."

"But there has been all the same."

"Where is the arbitrator?"

"She sits on your knee wondering what all this talk means. I tell you,
Hugh, there is a good deal more in those little heads than most people
think. Yesterday morning, when Dollie sat in