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"Not they, or else they are not men of this countryside. How is Harry? I
heard a queer story about him and others yesterday."
"Queer it might be, but it was queer in a good way if it is set against
Harry. What did you hear?"
"That Harry had trained a quartette of singers and that they had given
two concerts in Harrow-gate and three in Scarborough and Halifax, and
come back with nearly five hundred pounds for the starving mill-hands in
Hatton District."
"That is so--and I'm thankful to say it! People were glad to give. Many
were not satisfied with buying tickets; they added a few pounds or
shillings as they could spare them. Lord Thirsk went with the company
as finance manager. People like a lord at the head of anything, and
Thirsk is Yorkshire, well known and trusted."
"No more known and trusted than is Hatton. I think Harry might have
asked me. It is a pity they did not think of this plan earlier."
"There may be time enough for the plan to wear itself out yet."
"No. We shall have peace and cotton in three months.
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