Mexico Missouri message., 1907-10-17
CHAPTER vIII.-contInusd.
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CHAPTER vIII.-contInusd
"Jim, you gave me an awful scare"
he said brokenly. "DoEat ever do It
again. have little left TO live for.
To be sure have some feeling for
mother. Fred, and sisters. But for you
have love second only TO that
Should have felt for Beulah had been
allowed to have her. The thought.
Jim. that I had wrecked your life,
with all you have 10 live for, would
have been the last straw. My life Is
purgatory. Beulah Is only an ever.
present curse to me-a ghost that
rends my heart and soul. one minute
with a blind frenzy to revenge her
wrongs, tho next with an icy remorse
that ! have not already done 30. II
did not have her. perhaps in time
! could forget; perhaps l might lay
out some scheme to help poor devils
whose poverty makes life unendur-
able, and with the millions ! have
taken from the main shaft of hell l
might do things that would at least
bring quiet to my soul: but Il 10 i'm.
possible with the living corpse Of
Beulah Sands before me every minute
and that devil machinery whirlIng in
my brain all the time the song, Re-
venge her and her father. revenge
yourself II In impossible to give It
up. Jim. must have revenge. must
stop this machinery that is smashing
up more American hearts and souls
each year than all the rest of earth's
grinders combined. Every day de-
lay become more fiendish in my de-
sires. Jim, don't think do not know
that have literally turned into
'fiend. Whenever of late see myself
in the mirror, shudder. When I
think OF what was when your father
stood us up sn his once and started
us II this heart-shrivelllng. soul-cal-
3 IousIng business, and what am now,
cannot keep the madness down ex-
cept with rum. You know what Il
means for me TO say this, me who
started with all the pride Of Brown
ley; but It IL so. Jim. The other night
! went home with my soul frozen with
thoughts of the past and with my
brain ablaze with rum, intending to
end Il ALL / got out my revolver, and
woke BeuIah. but as said. Bob IL
going TO kill Beulah and himself she
laughed that sweet child's laugh and
ciapping her hands said. Bob Ia so
good TO play with Beulah, and then
thought OF that devil Reinhart aud
the other fiends Of the System be-
! ing left to continue their work unhin-
dered and could not do II. must
have revenge; I must smash that
heart.crushing machinery. Then !
can go. and take Beulah with me.
Now. Jim. let US have II clearly under
stood once and for all"
Remorse and. softness were past;
he was the Indian again. II am going
TO wreck that heil-annsx some day,
and that some day will be the next
time l start in. Don't argue with me,
don't misunderstood me. To-day you
stopped me. don't know whether
you meant what you threatened; !
don't care now. Il Is just as well that
I stopped, for the Systems machine
will be there whenever start In
again. II loses nothing Of rs iiend-
ishness, none OF Its destructive powers
by gFinding, but ON the contrary, as
you know. It increases its speed every
day II runs Now. Jim Randolph.
want 70 tell you that you must get
yours and the houses Affairs In such
shape that you won't be hurt when
10 into that human ratpit the next
time, for when ! come from It thu
New York Stock Exchange and the
au4fII Ama kaA A..
nnJointed Yes. aud I'm have theIi
hearts out. too. Neither win ever be-
able TO take from tho American people
their savings and their manhood and
womanhood and give them in ex-
change unadulteraied torment I an
going 20 be fair with you, Jim; this
- the last time win discuss the sub
5ect After this you must take you
chanca with the rest OF these whs
have 10 90 with the cursed business
When strike again. none win b
spared win wreck the Street. and
the innocent win 80 down with th'
guilty, Il they have any stocks OF
hand AZ that time.
my nower. Jim, is unlimited; moth
inR eof3 stay Il / am mot going H
explain any further yop have seo'
mo work. You must know that ~
powot "a greater than the sYstoma
ana YOU and and the Street have q
WAYS known hat tbs syntam % NOR
powerful Than the eofernm9nf mon
powerful thaN ARE the courts lsklslr
lures cOnzrcss and the pfealdeat Q
ihe unlt0d 6ialta comAinpd. hat
aheolnlely controls shc foundation q
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