"I wish they would leave us alone," she said one day.
"I don't," said the judge seriously. "I'm glad they have turned the spotlight on."
"Why?"
"Because with so much publicity, there's very little chance of rough work. Of course the men here at home wouldn't do anything against their own women folks, but quite a few outsiders are coming in, and if they could work in the dark, they might start a whisper, 'Anything to win!'"
Mary thought that over, and somehow the sun didn't shine so brightly for the next few minutes. Ma'm Maynard's old saying arose to her mind:
"I tell you, Miss Mary, it has halways been so and it halways will: Everything that lives has its own natural enemy—and a woman's natural enemy: eet is man!"
"No, sir, I don't believe it!" Mary told herself. "And I never shall believe it, either!"
The next afternoon Judge Cutler brought her an editorial entitled, "We
Shall See."
"The women of New Bethel (it read) are trying an experiment which, carried to its logical conclusion, may change industrial history.
"Perhaps industrial history needs a change. It has many dark pages where none but man has written.