I had no
end of trouble trying to sneak in unobserved."
She regarded him steadily. "Isn't it strange," she went on, "how the
bull-dog police of this town persecute us--and they _should_ be
sympathetic. They had to leave their own island because of tyranny. Yet
as soon as they step on this soil they feel themselves self-constituted
tyrants. Something of the sort happened with your own ancestors--" she
looked at him archly--"the Pilgrim Fathers were not very tolerant to the
Quakers, the Jews, Catholics, or any sect not their own. Now you do not
seem to have inherited that ear-slicing temperament--"
"Oh, stop, Yetta! Don't make any more fun of me. I confess I am
cowardly--I hate rows and scandals--"
"'What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his
liberty?'"
"Yes, I know. But this was such a nasty little affair. The newspapers
would have driven me crazy."
"But suppose, for the sake of argument," she said, "that the row would
not have appeared in the newspapers--what then?"
"What do you mean? By Jove, there was nothing in the papers, now that I
come to think of it.
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