Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-31

!! days and nights had
i...s been busy.
The men were out in
the steel mills, and they were as rough
and mixed lot as you could find.
The new superintendent had started
in as one of the steel workers and had
mastered his trade so well that now,
with little previous mechanical train
ing, Delafield had thought him the man
for the position at Otranto. The cause
of the trouble had been due in great
measure to the old superintendent
RillingsO lack of tact and Delafield,
who had watched DENLY from the first,
had considered him the man.
For three years he had worked among
the men-knew them from A to Z-and
had gone his way up mastering details.
He did not seem to have vice or a
failing, though when lie had appeared
at Otranto he was a sorry enough fell
low. He had brought letter from
Bronson, himself one of the principal
directors, recommending him to Della
fields good graces.
II don't want any favoritism on ac-
count of Mr.. Bronson's letter." he had
said. "All 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, put
ting him down as man who had gone
to pieces and thinking that he would
wear out. But he did not wear out,
and Delafield, watching him curiously,
had seen him day by day, his face
growing strong, his slight, compact,
muscular figure gaining grace that
rough clothes could not hide. He was
gentleman, certainly, Delafield de-
cided. But he had no mail; no one in
CURED for him. Whether his real
name were DENLY OF not nobody knew.
He never accepted Delafeld's invita-
tion to dine-that came after a year.
He was curious, isolated 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 So
phisticated world, too-began to defer
to him, and Delafield, watchful of ev-
erything, saw 1t all. Directly he was
advising with this man of 80, of whose
past he knew SO little, but who was
certainly an educated man.
Once his curiosity led him to ask (he
had asked no questions when DENLY
had appeareO:
you are connection OF Mr.. Bron-
son'sW
NO"
"Or-excuse me, won't you-you were
sent here to learn the business?"
II came here because had to have
work. That was all. My matters are
of no consequence to any one"
But Delafield still had private the
DRY that this was some one from the
powers who. might suddenly develop
into director, and, outside of his adj
miration for Denby's pluck and apti-
tude, he gave him further Difference.
But DENLY required nothing, nor books
save those bearing on his trade, nor
companionship-o his thoughts and
his work, for which he had Ber-
/
serker rage. And now, after three
years. uuriiis whicii ne iiau hoC stlrrea
from o,ialto' ne WIS tle new super
iii u.l
otranto is ~ mlies from byheld,
among the wooded northwestern Penn
sylvanian hills. For 20 miles about
there is nothing but rough hill coun-
| try, The place has 5000 miners and
steer workers. Ihere is no one else
there save the local merchants and the
grogshop Keepers, nothing but the
mgn' desoiate nils that DENLY had
grown TO IKE.
now after TINS hard day, out of sheer
exhaustion he mad sunk his face In his
MINUS Oh MS aesk IN tue supefintend.
ents Office and slept Fifteen hundred
VI the steei workers We're out ana all
Jay shefi1ts posse OIL ~ men, the SUI
pefihtehdeht, rev clerks ana few
othefs VINO had not gone out had pro
.ecteu the company's property. aDela
Ieio was III flttsDurg. inns morning
hiiitia company would arrive. The
matter would be knocked into order, Of
course. But Denny must hold out. Fol
u week ne had scarcely slept.
ne was dreaming OF places far away
Oh events long past, when the sheriff
toucned MN on the>shoulder.
Ihey are out there : everywhere
sWarming, Mr.. DENLY, and here is q
man TO speak to you"
Denny, MS blond hair in disorder
around high forehead, wheeled about
| We'll Lynch, what's the matter
howT
Lynch snuitied from side to side, his
purly hands pulglng his pockets.
4 Il am not for burnin and pullin to
pieces. II can't do no good"
+oniy hurt yourselves, of course. But
you made us light to Keep you from
yourselves"
uI rou nase Molheu among u.s.
.n MorA a,iions you now.
| ur nu. LUZ 'ne eonlpalS
u 81 uo YOU nSicn. wen Whae is W
h ,' ., peen taiNih TINS among the
'n eI o ua, t4ey , ale naa a.
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