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Show -361- his copy and saw that i t xas a warrant for his a r r e s t . He was to appear before a magistrate within forty-eight hours. "What do we do now?" he asked the young picket captain, xrho xas today marching xrith him. She shrugged. "We appear," she said, "xrith the attorney for the Union. He'll do xrhat needs to be done." "Of course," the Professor said, "I knoxr that, but we could be a r r e s t e d ." "Could be," the g i r l replied, "but in that case, I imagine the attorney xrould arrange for bail and the Union xrould pay i t ." She spoke contempuously, as though the xarrant were a mere formality, and perhaps i t xas. The Professor knexr i t as an old strike-breaking technique, but s t i l l the expensive paper, a l most as heavy as parchment, carried a certain authority xrith i t, and i t xas, a f t e r a l l , a xarrant for his a r r e s t . He t r i ed to imagine himself standing before the judge and being told he had no right to s t r i k e , that he would be put in j a i l if he pers i s t e d . Could he say to the judge, if he had no right to strike then he had no means of expressing his grievances except through civl disobedience? He could, but he knexr he wouldn't. Fortunately, that xas xrhat the attorney xas for. But xrhat if the attorney didn't appear? He t r i e d to stop thinking about i t , as the young picket captain apparantly had. He saw that there was much more a c t i v i ty around him today than there had been yesterday. Croxrds |