... Sometimes I think," he added, whimsically,
"that Maizie is partly Chinese."
The girl flushed. Jeanne made haste to change the subject. "How is your
friend, Dennis Kearney?" she asked Francisco.
"Oh, he's left the agitator business ... he's a grain broker now. But
Dennis started something. Capital is a little more willing to listen to
labor. And Chinese immigration will be restricted, perhaps stopped
altogether. The Geary Exclusion Act is before Congress now, and more or
less certain to pass."
"He's a strange fellow," said Jeanne, reminiscently. "I wonder if he
still hates everyone who disagrees with him. Loring Pickering was one of
his pet enemies."
"Oh, Dennis is forgiving, like all Irishmen," said Robert. Impulsively
he laid a hand on Maizie's.
"Maizie is part Irish, too," he added, meaningly. The girl smiled at him
star-eyed. For she understood.
CHAPTER LXXI
THE BLIND BOSS
Francisco met the erstwhile agitator on the street one day. He had made
his peace with many former foes, including Pickering."
"Politics is a rotten game, me b'y," he said, by way of explanation.
"And I've a family, two little girruls at home. I want thim to remimber
their father as something besides a blatherskite phin they grow up.
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