Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London


The wedding was two weeks off, when, one afternoon, in San
Francisco, Catherine Van Vorst picked him up and whisked him away
to see a Boys' Club, recently instituted by the settlement workers
in whom she was interested. It was her brother's machine, but they
were alone with the exception of the chauffeur. At the junction
with Kearny Street, Market and Geary Streets intersect like the
sides of a sharp-angled letter "V." They, in the auto, were coming
down Market with the intention of negotiating the sharp apex and
going up Geary. But they did not know what was coming down Geary,
timed by fate to meet them at the apex. While aware from the
papers that the Meat Strike was on and that it was an exceedingly
bitter one, all thought of it at that moment was farthest from
Freddie Drummond's mind. Was he not seated beside Catherine? And
besides, he was carefully expositing to her his views on settlement
work--views that Bill Totts' adventures had played a part in
formulating.

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