woful byway near Old Street.
It was one room only, but larger than she had hoped to come upon; fortunately
her own furniture had been preserved, and would now suffice.
    Kate remained sullen, but proved by her actions that she had surrendered;
she began to pack her possessions. Emma wrote to Alice, announcing that the
house was tenantless; she took the note to Highbury herself, and left it at the
door, together with the house key. The removal was effected after nightfall.
 

                                  Chapter XVII

Movements which appeal to the reason and virtue of humanity, and are
consequently doomed to remain long in the speculative stage, prove their
vitality by enduring the tests of schism. A Socialistic propaganda in times such
as our own, an insistence upon the principles of Christianity in a modern
Christian state, the advocacy of peace and good-will in an age when falsehood is
the foundation of the social structure, and internecine warfare is presupposed
in every compact between man and man, might anticipate that the test would come
soon, and be of a stringent nature. Accordingly it did not surprise Mr.
Westlake, when he discerned the beginnings of commotion in the Union of which he
represented the cultured and leading elements. A comrade named Roodhouse had of
late been coming into prominence by addressing himself in fiery eloquence to
open-air meetings, and at length had taken upon himself to more than hint that
the movement was at a standstill owing to the luke-warmness (in guise of
practical moderation) of those to whom its guidance had been entrusted. The
reports of Comrade Roodhouse's lectures were of a nature that made it difficult
for Mr. Westlake to print them in the Fiery Cross; one such report arrived at
length, that of a meeting held on Clerkenwell Green on the first Sunday of the
new year, to which the editor refused admission. The comrade who made it his
business to pen notes of the new apostle's glowing words, had represented him as
referring to the recognised leader in such very uncompromising terms, that to
publish the report in the official columns would have been stultifying. In the
lecture in question Roodhouse declared his adherence to the principles of
assassination; he pronounced them the sole working principles; to deny to
Socialists the right of assassination was to rob them of the very sinews of war.
Men who affected to be revolutionists, but were in reality nothing more than
rose-water romancers, would of course object to anything which looked like
business; they liked to sit in their comfortable studies and pen daintily worded
articles, thus earning for themselves a humanitarian reputation at a very