Godd about the new plan of the Anti-conscription League, to
prepare a set of instructions for young conscientious objectors.
Peter represented the purpose of these instructions to be the
advising of young men as to their legal and constitutional rights.
But it was McGivney's idea that Peter should slip into the
instructions some phrase advising the young men to refuse military
duty; if this were printed and circulated, it would render every
member of the Anti-conscription League liable to a sentence of ten
or twenty years in jail. McGivney had warned Peter to be very
cautious about this, but again Peter found that there was no need of
caution. Mrs. Godd was perfectly willing to advise young men to
refuse military service. She had advised many such, she said,
including her own sons, who unfortunately agreed with their father
in being blood-thirsty.
It came to be lunch-time, and Mrs. Godd asked if Peter could sit at
table--and Peter's curiosity got the better of all caution. He
wanted to see the Godd family sipping their nectar out of golden
cups. He wondered, would the disapproving husband and the
blood-thirsty sons be present?
There was nobody present but an elderly woman companion, and Peter
did not see any golden cups.
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