Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-03-14

a great speech. aud he has asked me
30 make IT,"
For n moment Eve waited. She look.
ed at him in silence, and in that silence
he read in her eyes the reflection of
his own expression.
And your she asked in a suppress
ed voice. What answer did you
giveT
He watched her for an instsnt tax
ing strange pleasure in her flushed
face and brilliantly eager eyes; then
the JOY of conscious strength, the sense
of opportunity reganed, swept all 9th
er considerations out of sight
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any man who was merely human have
done othcrwiseY
That was Loder's attitude and action
on the night Of his jeopardy and his
success. and the following day found
his mood unchanged. He was one of
those rare individuals who never give
promise overnight and regret 1t in the
morning. lie was slow to move. but
when he did the movement brushed all
obstacles aside. In the first days of his
usrrpation he had gone cautiously, half
fascinated, half dstrustful Then the
reality the extraord mary tsngibility OF
the position had gripped HIM when,
matching him self for the first time with
men of his own caliber, he had learned
his real weight on the day of his pro-
test against the Easter adjournment
With that knowledge had been born the
dominant factor in his whole scheme
the overwhelming, insistent desire to
manifest his power; that desire that
is the salvation or the ruin of every
strong man who has once realized his
strength. Supremacy was the note to
which his ambition reached. To tram
pie ont Chilcote's footmarks with his
own hand had been his tacit instinct
from the first. Now it rose paramount
1t was the whole theory of creation
the survival OF the fittest-the deep,
egotstical certainty that he was the
better map.
And it was with this conviction that
he entered on the vital period of his
dual career. The imminent crisis and
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