Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-20
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western piains--he had that spirit
Of mastery which q horse instantly
recognizes, and held his seat where
many more graceful rider might
have wavered.
He rode at life as though he were
riding at a high hurdle. Each salient
feature seemed fashioned by the ac-
ton of tempestuous elements, like
the lsharpened hgurehead of ship
worked by wind and wave-the keen.
vulturelike nosef under the open
fight of the eyebrows, the lean.
starting cheek bones, the worn
maxillary muscles of the jaw,
the set. crooked tenacity of the
lips, while the black album
dant hair, slightly shot with sill
yer, rippled back from the thin fore
head, past the large ears, which adj
hered to the skull as though blown
against it by the rapidity Of his pro-
gress through life. The first inn
preston was Of gauntness, Of primi-
i've force, Of crude vitality, but, with
this, there was such naturalness,
such boyish zest in the lighted gray
of his glance, such resonant friend
illness in the deep bass of his voice,
such a swing of success and power
in his bearing that this OVERLOOKING
quality of good humor, confidence
and decision exerted distinct
physical exhilaration upon all per-
sons with whom he came in con-
tact. At the upper end of the reser-
voir he refined in abruptly for a
bantering discussion of the ap-
preaching base ball championship
with Corcoran, the officer on duty,
and bolted away on his return trip.
I'll put II over until tomorrow"
he said, thinking of the momentous
decision he would be called upon
to make.
Other problems were elamoring
fof immediate adjustment. This
violent racing half hour was indeed
not a relaxation, but the beginning
of his working day. The sensation
of speed gave him the sensation of
power. Under this stimulus his
mind experienced an extraordinary
clarity. He was Of that new cleo
trio business temperament which is
given to the masters of New York,
who ride the shock and fury of its
combat as the aeroplane scars
above the shock and fury of the
storm-a type which has marked
resemblance to those abnormal
masters Of the air, whose nerves,
far from breaking under the shrek
and roar of motors, the giddy rise
or sickening drop on treacherous
air currents, or faltering at the in
human spectacle of swimming earth
and unstable skies, derive, on the
contrary an intense emotion of free
dom and power, a superhuman de-
light in combat, a joy in returning
to life, where normal imaginations
would collapse. The clamor and
shock of the city, the SCATTERING
iron beating against the ear of
train, trolley, truck and steam riv-
eter, of all the hideous uplifted
scream of the day which fatigues
the ears of the New Yorker and
leaves its straining lines across his
eyes and lips, was to Forester a
nervous, combustibIe chemistry. It
awoke every mental faculty. 1t
surrounded his intellect with a pro-
tecting wall of noise and permitted
it steady concentration.
"Peters is not the man for the OPP
Grating department" he said to him
self rapidly. Ideas but no order
No economy. Fromme's my man.
The overhead expenses can be cut
another hundred thousand. By the
way, Dickson can dispense with a
third stenographer," he added, his
mind leaping from big to trivial
details. Il must shave down my
bid on that Argentine contract.
Wonder if Argues is straight. /
must have that contract"
ITO Be Continued Tomorrow