secretaries, and on a stated day the Whirlwind Campaign would begin.

Each day the crowd would all agree to meet at some stated place and
each lunch together,--say at a restaurant or at a club or at some
eating place. This would go on every day with the interest getting
keener and keener, and everybody getting more and more excited, till
presently the chairman would announce that the campaign had succeeded
and there would be the kind of scene that Mullins had described.

So that was the plan that they set in motion in Mariposa.


I don't wish to say too much about the Whirlwind Campaign itself. I
don't mean to say that it was a failure. On the contrary, in many
ways it couldn't have been a greater success, and yet somehow it
didn't seem to work out just as Henry Mullins had said it would. It
may be that there are differences between Mariposa and the larger
cities that one doesn't appreciate at first sight. Perhaps it would
have been better to try some other plan.

Yet they followed along the usual line of things closely enough. They
began with the regular system of some of the business men getting
together in a quiet way.

First of all, for example, Henry Mullins came over quietly to Duff's
rooms, over the Commercial Bank, with a bottle of rye whiskey, and
they talked things over. And the night after that George Duff came
over quietly to Mullins's rooms, over the Exchange Bank, with a
bottle of Scotch whiskey. A few evenings after that Mullins and Duff
went together, in a very unostentatious way, with perhaps a couple of