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One night in early spring, Syd. Verner sat in his tent writing in the light of a candle stuck in an empty bottle.
Con. Burke was out. He was attending an informal gathering of angry men in very muddy clothes who were discussing the advisableness of establishing a Diggers' Congress. An unsuspected aptitude for politics of the most vigorous kind had flared up in Con. Burke. He was one of the most vehement of the speakers in the advanced section of the dissatisfied diggers.