Arizona republican., 1895-02-01
BOOMERANG VENGEANCE.
BY LUKE SHARP.

London IS a city so vast that many | curious things happen therein, and not day passes but vengeance is had by some one inhabitant upon another. Revenge in London is different in form from revenge in Corsica, but it is generally quite as effective, even though it keeps within the law. This is the story of two men, each of whom revenged himself upon the other: the first stealthily while pre- tending to be his friends friend, the second openly as an avowed enemy of the first, returning revenge for re- venge. Yet in both cases the revenge had an effect exactly contrary to what the aggressor intended.
 Every man living is what we call a genius if he but knew it. As the math ematical chances are against the right man ever meeting the right woman and marrying her, so, in a lesser de- gree, the chances are against man finding exactly the occupation that is fitted for him. The round pegs are eternally getting into the square holes When a square peg gets into square hole and fits, we say in our blindness that the peg is genius.
 Human perversity helps the mathe- nautical chance to prevent the pegs getting into the right places. The sue eessful tragedian invariably thinks that his forte is low comedy, and the renowned comedian imagines that if he but had the chance he could play Hamlet.
 Frederick Trigg wanted to be suc- eessful novelist, vocation for which he was utterly unsuited. Writing was his forte, but not the writing of novels. He had the critical faculty strongly de- geloped, and had style of his own winch ultimately led him, as every one knows, into the very front rank of Eng fish critics. But the circumstances, seemingly adverse at the time, and the result of the meanest treachery, which guided the square Trigg's footsteps to- ward the squared hole, are not s well known.
 Alfred Denton, on the other hand, was a born novelist, yet all his hopes were centered into becoming a great editor-a position for which he was conspicuously unftted.
 When young Trigg met young Den ton by chance at a semi literary club to which both belonged, Trigg congrat ulated himself. Denton at that time was the inefficient sub-editor of we'll known magazine, and Trigg, whose MSS, were invariably rejected, was convinced that the magazine editors of London formed sort of close corpora tion- whose chief object in life was to keep the outsider eternally outside. Trigg felt certain that if one of his stories. but got chance, it would be sure to succeed, and he felt that his Eipening friendship with Denton would, when the proper time came, give him his chance.
 There is no doubt but Denton intui- lively disliked Trigg from the begin hing. This, of course, he had a perfect right to do, but it is questionable if he was justified in pretending friend ship he did not feel, and in leading the other on to confde his woes and his MSS to him. Perhaps the dislike arose from the unfortunate habit Trigg had of reading selections from his stories to anyone who would listen, and there is 10 doubt that in those days Denton got more than his share.
 Any man has right to resent this sort of thing, but he should resist it openly and boldly, and not revenge himself in a snealzy manner.
 Denton praised the MSS highly, took them to the magazine office readily, and kept them for long time. Then they were returned to the unfortunate Trigg with note saying that the edi- tor, in spite of the warnest commenda- tions on the part of Denton, had reject ed them.
 This was very disappointing as far as Trigg was concerned, and he conceived violent hatred of the unknown editor who barred his way to publicity.
 No man can live on rejected MSS alone, and Trigg, embittered by lack of success, secured subordinate posi- tion upon the Acadaneum, a grea1 weekly critical journal. His own try ing experience had added just the requisite touch of virulence to his per which the Acadaneum delighted in, an6 Yrigg speedily rose in the estimation 9f his superiors on the paper.
 Trigg naturally hated successful men.
 One night at large literary dinner he found himself next an old man who was introduced to him as the editor o. the magazine of which his friend Den ton was the sub. Trigg had by thi: time become known as a rising man 1T what may be termed the cruel schoo of criticism, and the aged editor wa very gracious to him.
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