And then Mr. Edgerton says for Walter to go to dinner with us but Walter he says, “Not on your life I ast her first,” he says, “and if there is any dinner you will go with me.” So I says, “It will have to be that way Mr. Edgerton because I know this boy and he is only got one fault and that is that he is a mule.” So Mr. Edgerton says all right and we gets into the taxi and Walter’s shoulders is so broad that there is no room for mine in the seat but he puts me on his knees and you can see he is not going to let me be in Mr. Edgerton’s way. And I am telling Walter about who Mr. Edgerton is and what we are doing and gee you can see that it is a hard lump for Walter to swallow he don’t know what to make of it whether I am kidding him or not but Walter is like the Spokesman in one way when he don’t know what to say it don’t hurt him none to say nothing. Well the Greek restaurant is nearest and so we are pretty soon eating some more dinner cooked in mutton suet but gee Mom I could eat it if it was axel-grease I am so hungry. But I have got to play the social game and keep these two male animals from biting each other so I says, “Mr. Edgerton I have not had no chance to ask you but I can see that the Spokesman is in trouble because He does not know what to say about this here coal strike.” And he says, “That is right it is a very great worry to Him, and what do you think about it?” And I says, “Well Pop says you can’t make no gas without coal and what would I do if I come home to my room in the evening and there was no light in it?” And Mr. Edgerton says, “That is true, coal is a necessity of modern civilization.” “Well then,” I says, “is a lot of Hunkies and Dagoes to be allowed to get together and hold a pistol at people’s heads and get any price they please for work? No Mr. Edgerton,” I says, “it is the duty of the Spokesman to take a firm stand and say that there will not be no such strike allowed.” And he says, “I guess you are right and we will work it out on that basis.” But I says, “Mr. Edgerton He must not go and say that unless He means to act on it.” And he says, “But why not?” and I says, “Because it will not do.” And he says, “Well Miss Riggs but you cannot do business with the Spokesman that way because you would never be able to say nothing because He will never do nothing.” But I says, “If He says He won’t allow the strike and then He does allow it, what will people think of Him?” And he says, “It will be like it has always been and when the time comes people will of forgot it.” “But that is nonsense,” I says, “it will be quoted against Him what He said at the beginning.” And Mr. Edgerton says, “By who? A bunch of cranks here and there? The newspapers will not say nothing because we have got them and what else does it matter?”