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“You must get that way. You must march shoulder to shoulder. You must
march so that you yourselves shall come to know what a giant you are.
If one of your number whines or complains or stands upon a box throwing
words about knock him down and keep marching.
“When you have marched until you are one giant body then will happen a
miracle. A brain will grow in the giant you have made.
“Will you march with me?”
Like a volley from a battery of guns came the sharp reply from the eager
upturned faces of the audience. “We will! Let us march!” they shouted.
Margaret Ormsby went out at the door and into the crowds on Madison
Street. As she walked in the press she lifted her head in pride that
a man possessed of such a brain and of the simple courage to try to
express such magnificent ideas through human beings had ever shown
favour toward her. Humbleness swept over her and she blamed herself for
the petty thoughts concerning him that had been in her mind. “It does
not matter,” she whispered to herself. “Now I know that nothing matters,
nothing but his success. He must do this thing he has set out to do. He
must not be denied. I would give the blood out of my body or expose my
body to shame if that could bring him success.”
Margaret became exalted in her humbleness. When her carriage had taken
her to her house she ran quickly upstairs to her own room and knelt by
her bed. She started to pray but presently stopped and sprang to her
feet. Running to the window she looked off across the city. “He must
succeed,” she cried again. “I shall myself be one of his marchers. I
will do anything for him. He is tearing the veil from my eyes, from all
men's eyes. We are children in the hands of this giant and he must not
meet defeat at the hands of children.”
CHAPTER II
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