Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-23


| the suicidal process of turning his
available assets into ammunition fo4'
the nght1ng Of battle which could
nave but one possible outcome.
Strlke- breakers were imported at
fabulous expense. Armed guards under
| pay sWarmed at the valley foot, and
/ around the company's property else
| Wnere. BY hook or crook the foundries
| were kept going, turning out water
| pipe Tor which there was no market,
| and which. owing to the disturbances
which were promptly made an excuse
| oy the railway company, could not be
| moved out of the Chiawassee yard.
Later, when the striking Workmen
began to grow hungry, riot, arson and
oloodshed were nightly occurrences. A
| charging of coal, mined under the
greatest difficulties, was conveyed to
| the coke yards, only to be destroyed
| and half Of the ovens with it-by dy-
Mantle cunningly blackened and drop
| ped into the chargings. For want Of
| ruel, the furnace went out Of blast, but
| with the small store of coke remaining
In the foundry yards, the pipe pits
were kept at work. BY this time the
| promoter president was little better
than a mailman, lighting like a be--
serker and breeding a certain awed re-
spect in the comment of those who had
hitherto held him only as a shrewd
schemer
And Thomas Jefferson: how did this
| return to primordial chaos, brought
about in no uncertain sense by his
own premeditated act, affect him? Only
| a man quite lost to all promptings Of
the grace that saves and softens could
look unmoved on the burnings and
riotings, the cruel wastings and the
bloodlettings, one would say.
When he was not galloping Saladin
afar in the country roads to the land
ward side of Paradise, Tom Gordon
was idling purposefully in the Leban III
forests, with the fowling-pece under
his arm and Japhets Petttgrass'
dog trotting soberly at heel, as care
free, to all appearances, as a school-
boy home for a holiday.
1t was on an evening a fortnight
after the furnace had gone out of blast
for lack of fuel that Caleb followed his
son out on the veranda The Indian
summer was still at its best, and since
the early frosts there had been a re-
turn of dry weather and mild tempera-
lures, with warm, soft nights when the
blue haze seemed to hold all objects in
suspension.
Tom had pushed out a chair for his
father, when he suddenly became aware
that the still air was once more thrum-
ming and murmuring to the familiar
orb and sigh Of the great furnace
blowing engines. He started up quick
ly.
whats that?" he demanded Sure
ly they haven't blown in again?"
Caleb nodded assent.
Il reckon so. Colonel Duxbury al
lowed to me this mornin' that he was
about out O. the woods-in spite Of
you, he said; as if you'd been the one
that was dom him up"
But he can't bel" exclaimed Tom
so earnestly and definitely that the
mask fell away and the father was no
longer deceived.
I'm only tellin' you what he allowed
to me, son. 1 reckoned he was about
all in, quite a spell ago; but you can't
tell nothing by what you see-when
it's Colonel Duxbury. He got two car
loads O. new men to-day, and he's
shippin' Pocahontas coke, and gettin'
it here, TOO"
you feazed me little at first; but
L THINK hllO" 1IO" "AA1I AAcAo ia pC1A-
ed"
Calet, took time to let the remark
sink in. 1t carried differences.
Buddy, I been suspectin' for good
while back that you know more about
This sudden smash-up than you've let
on Do you?"
81 know all about it," was the quiet
rejoinder
..x-o,,
Tom held up his hand for silence. A
man had let himself in at the roadway
cate and was walking rapidly up the
Da1h to the house. 1t was Norman:
ana after a few hurried words in pri-
waite with Tom, he went as he had
come declining Calebs invitation to
stay.
When the gate latch clicked at Nor
mans outgoing, Tom had risen and
was knocking the ash from his pipe
and buttoning his coat.
at was admitting that I knew" he
said. II can tell you more now that I
could a moment ago, because the time
for which I have been waiting has
come. You remarked that you thought
the FarIeys were at the end of their
roDe. They were not until to-day, but
to-day they are. Every piece of prop
erty they have. including Warwick
Lodge, is mortgaged to the hilt, and
this afternoon Colonel Duxbury put
his Chiawassee stock into Henniker's
hands as security for a final loan--so
Norman tells me. Perhaps it would in
terest you a trifie to know something
about the figure at which Henniker
accepted it,
1T would. for fact, Buddy"
We'll, he took it for less than the
annual dividend that it earned the year
we ran the plant; and between us two,
he's scared to death, at that"
why, Buddy. son! were plum ruin
ed-and SOS old Major Dabney
Don't you worry, pappy. Our part
since Colonel Duxbury saw fit to freeze
us out. is to say nothing and saw wood.
If the Major comes to yon you can tell
him that my word to him holds good:
he can have par for Ardea's stock any
time he wants it. and he could have II
lust the same If Chiawassee We're
wiped off the map-as It's gong 10
be-"