The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30
CHAPTER xxxvI.
The God IN the Machine.

Uncle Peter next morning was up to q
late breakfast with the stricken family.
Percival found him a trif1e less bitter:
but not less convinced in his despair.
The young man himself had recovered his
spirits wonderfully The utter collapse of
the old man, always so reliant before,
had served to fire all his latent energy. He
was now voluble with plans for the fu-
ture; not only determined to reassure
Uncle Peter that the family would be pro-
vided for, but not a little anxious to
Justly g@ the old mans earlier h praise and
Mrs. Btnes, SO complacent overnight,
was the most disconsolate one of the
group. With her low tastes she was now
regarding the loss Of the fortune as a
calamity to the worthy infants Of her
own chosen field.
"And there, I'd promised to give $4,000
dollars to the new home for crippled chill
'dren, and S., 600 to st. John, s Guild for the
floating hospitals this summer-just. yes
terday-and T. dol@declare, I just couldn't
stay in In New York without money, and
see those poor babies suffer. .
GU couldn't stay in New York without
money, Mrs. Good thing, ''EGsaid her son.
mot even If you couldn't see q thing but
don't you welsh on any Of your plays
we'll make that ten thousand good if
have to get a sandbag and lay out a few
of these lads around here some dark
night
But anyway you can't do much to re-
lieve Them don't know but what it. s
honester to be poor while the authorities
allow such goings on.
II. 'sY on have the makings of a; very dan
gerous anarchist in you, ma. We seen that
for some time. But we're honest fam
lily all right now. with the exception of a
few properties that I'll have to sit up
with nights-sit right by their sick-beds
and wake them UP to take their neddy
every half hour
Nov, my son, don't you get to going
without your Sleep" began his mother.
"And wasn't 1t lucky about my send
ing that rcte to George" said Psyche.
Here in this mornings paper we find he
isn't going to be Lord Casselthorpe, after
ALL What could Ifave done If we hadn't
inferred that certain people who had de-
clared Miss Biness to be very hard headed
We're not SO far@wrong as@the notorious
casual observer lis. very apt to be.
Never you mind, sis" said her brother
cheerfully, we'll be all right yet. You
wait a little, and hear Uncle Peter take
back what he's said about me. Uncle
Peter. I'll have you taking OFF that. hat
Of yours every time you get sight Of me
in about a year.
He went again over the plans The in
come from the One Girl was to be used
in developing the other properties; the
stock ranch up on the Bitter Root, the
other mines that had been worked but lit
tie and with crude appliances; the irri
cation and land improvement enterprises
and the big timber tracts.
Il got something of an idea Of It wher
Uncle Peter took me around summer be.
fore last, and learned a lot more get.
| ting the stuff together with Coplen. Now
I'm ready to buckle down to it, He
l 81 Do%o l,1,.,~
Of encouragement to soothe the hurts the
old man had put upon him.
| But all Uncle Peter would say wa.
That sounds very we'll" compelling the
Inference that he regarded sound and sub
stance as phenomena not necessarily re
1 lated. s55 9, U @ sESs
But give me a chance, Uncle Peter
Just don't jump on me too hard for
year
We'll. know that country There
1 big chances for a young man,with brains
understand THAT has got all the high
/ living nonsense blasted out Of his suppe
levels-7but it takes work. You may d,
something-there are white blackbirds-
/ but you re on a. nasty piece Of roadbed-
i curves all down on the oltside-whee1
i fatted under every truck. and you've ha,
her down in the: corner so long doubt /
4 you can ever slow up, say nothin' o
i reversin'. And think of me gettin. foole
that way. at my time Of life,,', he con
tinued, as If in confidence to fimsel1
4 But then. always was terrible poo
\ judge OF human nature
Well, have your own way: but TIL fot
you again. while you're coppering N,
i You watch: that's all ask. Just S
around and talk wise about me all 70
want to. but watch. Now, ] must 60 dow
and get to work with Fouts Thank til
4 Lord, we didn't have to welsh either, an
more than Mrs. Giye-up there did. z
You won't touch any more stock; 70
won't get that money from Shepler r.
I won't; won't go near Shepler,
promise you. Now you'll believe me
one thing, know you will. Uncle Peter.
4 He went over to the old man.
4 II want to thank you for pulling me u
lon that play as you did last rigt 70
saved me, and I'm more grateful to yo
than Lean say. But for YOU I'd have gon
in and dug the hole deeper He mad
4 the old man shake hands with him-tf
i Uncle Peters hand remained limp an
cherries. You can shake on that, q
Eleast. You saved me, and II thank go
for it, sss
Il well, I'm glad you got some sense,
i answered the old man, grudgingly. sit
Railways the way I'M that stock gam
slThere's always goir to be a big KILN
made in Wall street to morrow, only t.
morrow never comes. Reminds, me Z
II Holdings that keeps the Little Gem res
taurant. He's got an enormous big turf
y in his cellar that he's kept to my know
ledge for fifteen years. Every time he sci