The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-04-06
THE CITY OF MUM.
BERED DAYS
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counsel you, can still be your faithful
accuser. You have committed a great
sin, Brouillard, and you are still COM
hitting it. If you haven't been the
leader in the mad scramble for riches
here in this abandoned city, you have
been only step behind the leaders.
And you were the one man who should
have been like Caesars wife, the one
whose example counted for most"
Brouillard got up and thrust out his
hand across the desk.
"You are man, Castner-and that
is better than being a priest" he as
serted soberly. 'Ill take back all the
spiteful things I've been saying. I'm
down under the hoofs of the horses.
and it's only human nature to want to
pull somebody else down You are one
of the few men in Mirapolis whose
presence has been blessing instead
of a curse-who hasn't had a purely
selfish greed to satisfy"
Again Cashier shook his head
"There hasn't been much that l could
do. Brouillard, it is simply dreadful
the hard, reckless, half-demoniac spirit
of this place! There is nothing to ap-
peal to; there is no room or time for
anything but the mad money chase or
the still madden dissipation in which
the poor wretches seek to forget.
can only try here and there to drag
some poor soul out of the fire at the
last moment, and it makes me sick
sick at heart!"
you mustn't look at it that way"
said Brouillard, suddenly turning COM
forter You have been doing good
work and a lot of it-more than any
three ordinary men could stand up I'M
der. l haven't got beyond seeing and
approaching, Cashier; truly | have
not. And I'll say this: IF had only
half your courage but it's no
use, I'm in too deep. l can't see any
farther ahead than a man born blind
There is one end for which have been
striving from the very first, and it is
still unattained. I'm past help now. l
have reached a point at which I'd pull
the whole world down in ruins to see
that end accomplished"
The young missionary took another
turn up and down the room and theL
came back to the desk for his hat. At
the leave-taking he said the only help
full word he could think of.
GO to your confessor, Brouillard-
your real confessor-and go all the
more readily if that one happens to be
a good woman-whom you love and
trust. They often see more clearly
than we do-the good women. Try it;
and let me help where a man can
help"
For long hour after Cashier went
away Brouillard sat at his desk, fight
ing as those fight who see the cause
lost, and who know they only make
the ruin more complete by struggling
on
Cortwright's guess had fosnd its
mark. He was loaded to break with
front feet" and options and corners"
In the least speculative period he had
bought and mortgaged and bought
again, plunging recklessly with the
sole object of wringing another hun
bred thousand out of drying sponge |
against the time when David Masstn-
gale should need 1t. At first the under
taking seemed easily possible. But |
with the drying of the speculative
sponge it became increasingly diff
cult More and more he had Deen COM |
PEELED to buy and hold, until now the |
bare attempt to unload would have !
started the panic which was only wait |
ing for some hedging seller to fire the
train.
The sweat stood out in great drops |
on his forehead when he finally drew
a pad of telegraph blanks under his
hand and began to write a message.
Painstakingly he composed it, refer
ring often to the notes in his field
book, and printing the words neatly
IN his accurate, clearly-detined hand
writing.
NnGn II Was llulSuGu llC IAt'iiSAsNNo@ -
into the department code.
But after the copy was made and
signed he did not ring at once for a
Instead, he put the two
he original and the cipher. under a
paper weight and sat glooming at them
blindly for some alternative
o the final act of treachery which
would be consummated in the sending
If the wire.
Since, by reason of Cortwright's tam
oerings with the smelter people and
he railroad, the Little Susan" had be-
,ome a locked treasure vault, the en-
yineer. acting upon his own initiative,
lad tried the law. AS soon as he had
that David Massingale had
,een given sixty days longer to live,
ioleiy because the buccaneers chose
to take his mine rather than his
money, Brouillard had submitted the
acts in the case to trusted lawyer
riepd in the East.
This hope had pulled in two Ike
rayed cord. Massingale must pay the
,ank or lose all. Until he had OBJ
aimed possession OF the promissory
totes there would be no creylce IN
which to drive any legal wedge. Ana