Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-02-18


from full breathed prosperity to life
less failure.
His view was the inverse of his mas
tcrs TO Thorpe it had suddenly be-
come a very little thing in contrast to
the great, sweet elemental truth that
the dream girl had enunclated. 10
Collins the affair was miles vnster than
the widest scope OF his own narrow
life.
The firm could not take up its notes
when they came due; it could not pay
the interest on the mortgages. which
would now be fOreclosed, it could not
even pay in full the men who had
worked for it--that would come under
a courts adjudication.
He had therefore watched Thorpc's
desperate sally to mend the weakened
chain in sll the suspense of man
whose entire universe is in the keeping
of the chance moment. 1t must be re-
membered that at bottom. below the
outer consciousness. Thorpe's final de-
cision had already grown to maturity.
On the other hand. no other thought
than that Of accomplishment had even
entered the little bookkeepers head.
The rescue and all That it had meant
had hit him like "A stroke Of apoplcxy.
and his thin emotions had curdled 10
hysteria Full of the idea he appeared
before the men.
With rapid. almost incohcrent speech
he poured 1t out to them. Professional
caution and secrecy were forgotten
Wallace Carpenter attempted 70 push
through the ring for the purpose OF
stopping him. 4 gigantic river man
kindly but firmly held him back.
Il guess it's Just as well we hears
this said the latter.
1t all came out--the loan to Carpcn.
ter, with hint at the motivc-thc
Vaccinations Of the rival firm on the
board of trade; the notes, the mort
cages. the necessity Of n big seasons
cut: the reasons the rival firm had for
wishing to prevent that cut from ar
irving at tho market: the desperate and
varied means they had employed. Tho
men listened silent. Hamilton, his
eyes glowing like Goals drank in every
word Here was the master motive he
had sought: here was the story great
to his hand.
That's what zee ought TO get" cried
Collins. almost weeping. And now
we're gone and bust just because that
Internal river hog had TO fall off
! boom. It's shame Those scalawags
/ have done us after an
| out from the shadows of the woods
stole Injun Charley. The Whole bear
! ing and aspect Of the man had chang
ed His eye cleaned with q distant.
| farseeing tire of its own, which took
| no account Of anything but some re-
| mote vision He stole along almost
| furtively. but with n proud. upright
! carriage of his neck, a backward tilt
Of his fine head distension of his
nostrils. that lent to his appearance a
panther-like pride and stealthincss. No
one saw him. Suddenly he broke
through the group and mounted tie
steps beside Collins.
The enemy Of my brother is gone
said he simply in his native tongue.
and with a sudden gesture held out be-
/ fore then--a scalp.
Tho medieval barbarity of thc thing
anpalled them for n moment. The DAYS
of scalping were long since past. had
been closed away between the pages
Of forgotten histories, ana yet here
again before them was TIE thing in all
its living horror. Then Il growi arose.
The human animal had tasted blood.
NJ mt once. like wine. their wrongs
mounted to their head. they remem-
bercd their dead comrades. They re-
mombcrcd ,Lc heart breaking DAYS and
NIGHTS of toll they had endured on a.
count of this man and his associates.
Tlay remembered the words Of Collins.
the Uftlc Looi.kpenor ILrv hated.
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