THE GREAT WAR || T. SHELBY (3)

TEN

CHAPTER TEN: Advances

LINDA SURVIVED THE SHOT TO HER ARM CAUSED BY POLLY'S GUN.

Linda threatened to kill Arthur and the rest of the family but was stopped before she was able to pull the trigger. The bullet landed in her arm and she fell to the floor. Thomas and Arthur grabbed her and carried her to the dining room.

Thomas cleared off most of the table and laid Linda on the table on her black. Tabitha, being a nurse, in the war, went to go grab iodine as Oswald tried entering the room, but Thomas sent him away. They successfully removed the bullet from Linda's arm when Tabitha came back with the iodine, and Linda passed out from the pain. While Linda passed out, Polly decided to announce her and Aberama's engagement, showing Tabitha the ring on her left ring finger.

As soon as Thomas and Tabitha returned to the tent, Oswald room the stage and tried to end the silence. Tabitha knew it wasn't going to be good, as her parents decided to go home, and Ocean and his wife went with them. Theodore and Lizzie stayed though, listening to why Oswald had to say as it freaked both of them out.

"Ladies and gentlemen. I would like to extend our gratitude to the musicians and the dance company for your wonderful performance," Oswald started as everyone applauded. "This has been a wonderful evening. And not only for the music and the dancing. It is also because of us, the people gathered here. English people in the very heart of England. There are no people I would rather be among, no place I would rather be and no time I would rather be alive."

"Well said!" A man said.

"Because ever since the terrible events of October, when the money markets betrayed us all...I have known that change is coming."

Tabitha crossed her arms as her and Thomas continued to listen to Oswald's words. Theo held Lizzie close, trying to get away without anyone noticing, which they were successful.

"Away for a couple minutes and he's doing this," Tabitha mumbled in annoyance.

"The human species has never faced such immense possibilities such choices," Oswald said. "In lives of Great nations, there are moments of destiny which have swept aside small men of convention and discovered men of the moment. And our host...is such a man."

The guests applauded as Oswald pointed at Thomas.

"For him...for him, the little calculator of little men mean nothing. He is a man well suited to the mighty mood that England is now in."

"Hear hear," another man said.

"The only reason I say this now, at this moment on this stage, is because I have some news. Good news, I think," Oswald said, making the guests laugh. "I'm sure out host will forgive me if I use this platform, this gathering of friends and like minds, to give you, his trusted allies, an early announcement of a long-overdue event. I want to tell you good folk first that with the dawn of a new decade, I will be setting a new course, setting up a new political movement here in the heart off England. And Mr Shelby will be with me, shoulder to shoulder."

The crowd applauded once more as Thomas and Tabitha kept stoic expressions.

"It will offer a new conception of politics in which the great character of the British, our true character, will be reborn. Many of you lost fortunes in the recent stock market crash. The men of money, the capitalist in New York, the Jews, the money-power, they...They run an international system in which the infinite mobility of money it's capacity to create financial and panic, can bring down any government that dares, for one moment, to oppose it. For generations, the efforts of hard-working men like you have equipped our competitors against us. The cotton mills of India, the cotton mills of Asia, created with British money but used for the destruction of Lancashire and Yorkshire."