The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-13

He did not seem to have a vice or a
failing. though when he had appeared
at OtrantO he was a sorry enough fell
low. He had brought a letter from
Bronson, himself one Of the principal
directors, recommending him TO Della
fields good gTaces.
I don't want any favoritism 71n &C
count Of Mr.. BronsOn's letter." he mad
said. All l want is a chance to begin IN
the mills-at the very lowest rung Of
the ladder. [ am strong enough, or shall
be when 1 am myself again"
Delafield had looked him over, putting
him down as a man who had gone to
pieces, and thinking that he would wear
out. But ne did not wear out, and Della
field, watching him curiOusly, mad seen
him day by day, his face growing
strong, his slight, compact, muscular
figure gaining grace that rough clothes
could no. hide. He was a gentleman,
certainly, DeIafield decided. But he had
no mail. no one inquired for him;
whether his real name was DENLY or
not, nobody knew. He never accepted
Delafelds invitation to dine-that came
after q year. He was a curious, isolat-
ed figure, with. directly the manager
saw, the power TO command men. The
engineers, with their mechanical school
experience. men who brought a touch
Of the city to OtrantO, some men from
the sophisticated world, too, began -
defer to him; and Delafield, watchful
Of everything, saw it all Directly be
was advising with this man of so, of
whose past he knew so little. but who
was certainly an educated man.
Once his curiosity led him 10 ask Che
had asked no questions when DENLY
had aDDeared):
You are a connection of Mr.. Bron-
son's?"
"No."
cor, excuse me, won't you; you were
sent here to learn the business?''
I came here. because 1 had to have
work. That was al. My maaters are
Of no consequence to anyOne.N
But Delafield still had a private the
DRY that this was some one from the
powers who might suddenly develop
into a director, and, outside of his ad-
mi.ation for Denbys pluck and apti-
tuqe. he gave him further Difference.
But DENLY required nothing; nor books
save those bearing on his trade; nor
cOmpanionship; only his thoughts and
his work, for when he had q Berserker
rage. And now, after three years, dur
ing which he had not stirred from
OtrantO, he was the new suDarintend-
emit
OtFantO is twenty miles from Byfield.
among the wooded northwestern Penn
sylvanian hills. For twenty miles about
there is nothing but rough hill country.
The place has 5000 miners and steel
workers. There is no one else there,
save the local merchants and the grog
shop keepers, nothing but the high, des-
olate hills, that DENLY had grown TO
like.
Now, after this hard day, out of sheer
exhaustion, he had sunk his face on
hands on his desk in the suDeTintend
ents Office and slept. Fifteen hundred
of the steel workers were out. and all
day a sheTiff's posse of thirty men, the
superintendent, few clerks, d few
others who had not gone out, had pro
tected the company's property. Della
field was IN Pittsburg. This morning
militia company would arrive. The
matter would be knocked into order of
course. But DENLY must hold out. For
a week he had scarcely slept.
He was dreaming Of places far away,
of events long past, when the sheriff
touched him on the shoulder.
They are out there-everyWher ere
sWarming, Mr.. DENLY, and here is a
man to speak to you"
DENLY, his blonde hair in disorder
around a high forehead, wheeled about.
Well, Lynch, what's the matter
now?"
Lynch shuffled from side to side, his
burly hands bulging his pockets.
II am not for burnin' and pullin' TO
pieces It can't Go no good
only hurt yourself, Of course. But
you made US fight--to keep you from
yourselves
you have worked among US"
81 work among you now"
"But for the company"
$50 do you, Lynch. Well, what is it?'
81 have been talkin' this among the
men, but they are mad"
Il ought to know that"
And they are nader about the sher-
if. and madden about the soldiers.
Why, if it hadn't been for YOU
Don't mind me-"
''If it hadn't been because many
knew you and respected you, they'd had
this thing over your heads long ago"
They'd burn the company's houses,
I suppose, if they had anywhere else
to put their families" DENLY remarked.
yes" said Lynch, with a grim smile,
'sthey would. But now it's come TO the
pass where they can't be held back
nothin' can hold them back. Those Of
us that has stood up can't any longer"
Poor devils, poor devus-Why can't