The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-12-16
Copyright. 1913. BY Emerson noueh

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crime to see her cut herself all to
pieces this way We've just got to
stop and clean her up. that's all. and
az the job right. Ought to have done
It back there before we started in"
"How long will it take, Williams?
I asked.
"Oh. don't know, sir! More than
this afternoon, sure"
'"That's too bad said |. with a fair
imitation Of regret. I'VE had expected
to make Manning island by night"
dispatched L'Olonnois as messenger
to the ladies, telling them the cause of
our delay and explaining how difficult
1t was to say just when we would get
in to the island. and then betook my
self to gloomy pacing up and down
what restricted part Of the deck felt
free for my own use. wearied of it
soon and went to my cabin. trying to
read.
At first I undertook one Of the mod.
ern novels which had been recommend
ed by my bookseller. but ! found my.
self unable to get on with 1t and.
standing before my shelves, took down
one volume after another of philoso-
piers who once were wont to comfort
me-men with brains, thinking men
who had done something in the world
besides buying yachts and country
houses. Ny eye caught page which
earlier had turned down, and l read
again:
Trust thyself; every heart vibrates
to that iron string. Accept the place
the Divine Providence has found for
you-the society Of friends, the connec-
tion Of events. Great men have al
ways done so and conided themselves
childlike to the genius Of their age
- And we now are men and must
accept in the highest mind the same
transcendent destiny. and not pinched
In a corner nor towards fleeing before
revolution, but redeemers and bene~
factors, ptous aspirants to be noble
clay. under the Almighty effort let US
advance on chaos and the dark"
l read the mystic. involved, subjec.
tive words again, as most Of the Con-
cord sage's words require. and reflect
ed how well they jumped with the
note Of my heather Epictetus, who
had said. "Be natural and noble"
And, SO thinking, began to wonder
whether after all my father, whose
ruthless ways betimes had explored,
whose ruthless sins l had betimes
atoned, had not been perhaps better
man than sometimes had credited
him with being. He in accordance
with his lights had accepted the part
given him by the poet of the play.
He had confided himself childlike to
the genius Of his age, roaring, fighting.
scrambling, getting and sometimes
giving. He had trusted himself, and
In the end, bold man, he had advanc.
ed bravely on chaos and the dark.
Dear old governor! I did not regret
the million Of his money had spent
to restore his memory clear in my own
mind, for after all it had all been in
open war-that time when he unload
ed worthless mine on his friend Dan
Emory-Helena's father, Daniel EN-.
DRY. who was at first said to have left
his family penniless. until a shrewd
lawyer in some miraculous way had
managed to sell at a good price a box
full Of worthless mining stock to some
innocent victim.
Helena Emory never knew of that
sale. nor did her guardian aunt. l did
know of it. for the very good reason
that was both the shrewd lawyer
and the innocent purchaser. 1t was
the last act of my professional career
and it was this which caused the gen.
eral report that had made bad min
ing venture. had lost my fathers for
tune and retired from my career
ruined man. A few friends knew 9th
erwise, and blessed the rumor which
cost me certain friends who thought
me poor and so forsook me. Perhaps
my father would have called me quix-
otto had he known. Now as l read
and pondered l neither blamed him
for his own course in fair business
war with old Dan Emory. nor did !
censure myself for my own hidden act
of restitution. Let the world wag its
head If it liked and remain ignorant
Of other millions given to me before
my fathers death, unprotected, secret.
after the fashion of my pirate parent,
who buried his treasures and told none
but his kin how they might be found.
OF course in time it all might come
out. In time Helena would know that
this yacht which she supposed to be
Davidson's was my own; that the
farm l was supposed to have rented
really was handsome estate that !
owned: that many covert deeds in
finance had been my own. 1t was only
my silence and my absence in many
parts Of the world which had prevent
ed her, also much traveller, from
knowing the truth about me long ago.
and the truth was l was not poor
man. but rich one