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-had an undefined feeling that Philip was
-a young aristocrat, who was growing fat
upon the good things that ought to be
divided among them. Philip had re-
sented this criticism. He had come to
regard the workmen’s sons as so many
young anarchists, who were conspiring
against men industrious enough to save
money.-
_ There was at least one boy in the vil-
-lage whose friendship Philip had valued.
That was Grant Murray. He and Philip
had been much together, although their
positions in life had been very different.
Grant’s father was a “steam engine
tender.” He had worked in the mill for
twenty years, and had been the last man
to join the strikers. Mr. Kelsey had
spoken to him when he was going. -

“So you are against me, too, Ethan,”
he had said,