CHAPTER V. I TAKE A PARTNER

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CHAPTER V. I TAKE A PARTNER That meeting with Lumley scared me badly, but it also clinched my resolution. The most pacific fellow on earth can be gingered into pugnacity. I had now more than my friendship for Tommy and my sympathy with Pitt-Heron to urge me on. A man had tried to bully me, and that roused all the worst stubbornness of my soul. I was determined to see the game through at any cost. But I must have an ally if my nerves were to hold out, and my mind turned at once to Tommy's friend Chapman. I thought with comfort of the bluff independence of the Labour member. So that night at the House I hunted him out in the smoking-room. He had been having a row with the young bloods of my party that afternoon and received me ungraciously. "I'm about sick of you fellows," he growled.

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