So
now here were the pamphlets seized by the Federal government, and
all the members of the Anti-conscription League under arrest,
including Sadie Todd and little Ada Ruth and Donald Gordon! Peter
was sorry about Sadie Todd, in spite of the fact that she had called
him names. He couldn't be very sorry about Ada Ruth, because she was
obviously a fanatic, bent on getting herself into trouble. As for
Donald Gordon, if he hadn't learned his lesson from that whipping,
he surely had nobody to blame but himself.
Peter was a member of this Anti-conscription League, so he pretended
to be in hiding, and carried on a little comedy with Ada Ruth's
cousin, an Englishwoman, who hid him out in her place in the
country. Peter had an uncomfortable quarter of an hour when Donald
Gordon was released on bail, because the Quaker boy insisted that
the crucial phrase which had got them all into trouble had been
stricken out of the manuscript before he handed it to Peter Gudge to
take to the printer. But Peter insisted that Donald was mistaken,
and apparently he succeeded in satisfying the others, and after they
were all out on bail, he made bold to come out of his hiding place
and to attend one or two protest meetings in private homes.
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