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<v Speaker 1>This is section fifty eight. This LibriVox recording is in

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<v Speaker 1>the public domain. The Gilded Age, A Tale of to

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<v Speaker 1>Day by Mark Twain and C. D. Warner, Chapter fifty eight.

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<v Speaker 1>The court room was packed on the morning on which

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<v Speaker 1>the verdict of the jury was expected, as it had

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<v Speaker 1>been every day of the trial, and by the same

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<v Speaker 1>spectators who had followed its progress with such intense interest.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a delicious moment of excitement which the frequenter

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<v Speaker 1>of trials well knows, and which he would not miss

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<v Speaker 1>for the world. It is that instant when the foreman

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<v Speaker 1>of the jury stands up to give the verdict, and

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<v Speaker 1>before he has opened his fateful lips, the court assembled

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<v Speaker 1>and waited. It was an obstinate jury. It even had

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<v Speaker 1>another question, this intelligent jury, to ask the judge this morning.

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<v Speaker 1>The question was this, were the doctors clear that the

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<v Speaker 1>deceased had no disease which might soon have carried him

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<v Speaker 1>off if he had not been shot. There was evidently

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<v Speaker 1>one juryman who didn't want to waste life and was

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<v Speaker 1>willing to stake a general average, as the jury always

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<v Speaker 1>does in a civil case, deciding not according to the evidence,

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<v Speaker 1>but reaching the verdict by some occult mental process. During

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<v Speaker 1>the delay, these spectators exhibited unexampled patients, finding amusement and

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<v Speaker 1>relief in the slightest movements of the court. The prisoner

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<v Speaker 1>and the lawyers, Mister Braham divided with Laura the attention

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<v Speaker 1>of the house. Bets were made by the Sheriff's deputies

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<v Speaker 1>on the verdict, with large odds in favor of a disagreement.

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<v Speaker 1>It was afternoon when it was announced that the jury

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<v Speaker 1>was coming in. The reporters took their places and were

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<v Speaker 1>all attention. The judge and lawyers were in their seats.

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<v Speaker 1>The crowd swayed and pushed in eager expectancy as the

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<v Speaker 1>jury walked in and stood up in silence. Judge, gentlemen,

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<v Speaker 1>have you agreed upon your verdict? Foreman? We have judge?

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<v Speaker 1>What is it? Foreman? Not guilty? A shout went up

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<v Speaker 1>from the entire room, and a tumult of cheering, which

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<v Speaker 1>the court in vain attempted to quell. For a few moments,

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<v Speaker 1>all order was lost. The spectators crowded within the bar

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<v Speaker 1>and surrounded Laura, who, calmer than any one else, was

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<v Speaker 1>supporting her aged mother, who had almost fainted from excess

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<v Speaker 1>of joy and now occurred one of those beautiful incidents

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<v Speaker 1>which no fiction writer would dare to imagine, a scene

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<v Speaker 1>of touching pathos, creditable to our fallen humanity. In the

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<v Speaker 1>eyes of the women of the audience, mister Braham was

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<v Speaker 1>the hero of the occasion. He had saved the life

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<v Speaker 1>of the prisoner, and besides he was such a handsome man.

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<v Speaker 1>The women could not restrain their long pent up emotions.

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<v Speaker 1>They threw themselves upon mister Brahm in a transport of gratitude.

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<v Speaker 1>They kissed him again and again, the young as well

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<v Speaker 1>as the advanced in years, the married as well as

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<v Speaker 1>the ardent single women. They improved the opportunity with a

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<v Speaker 1>touching self sacrifice. In the words of a newspaper, the

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<v Speaker 1>day they lavished him with kisses, it was something sweet

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<v Speaker 1>to do, and it would be sweet for a woman

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<v Speaker 1>to remember in after years that she had kissed Braham.

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<v Speaker 1>Mister Braham himself received these fond assaults with the gallantry

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<v Speaker 1>of his nation, enduring the ugly and heartily paying back

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<v Speaker 1>beauty in its own coin. This beautiful scene is still

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<v Speaker 1>known in New York as the Kissing of Braham. When

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<v Speaker 1>the tumult of congratulation had little spent itself. An order

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<v Speaker 1>was restored. Judge O'Shaughnessy said that it now became his

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<v Speaker 1>duty to provide for the proper custody and treatment of

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<v Speaker 1>the acquitted. The verdict of the jury having left no

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<v Speaker 1>doubt that the woman was of an unsound mind, with

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<v Speaker 1>a kind of insanity dangerous to the safety of the community,

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<v Speaker 1>she could not be permitted to go at large. In

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<v Speaker 1>accordance with the directions of the law in such cases,

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<v Speaker 1>said the Judge, and in obedience to the dictates of

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<v Speaker 1>a wise humanity, I hereby commit Laura Hawkins to the

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<v Speaker 1>care of the Superintendent of the State Hospital for Insane Criminals,

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<v Speaker 1>to be held in confinement until the State Commissioners on

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<v Speaker 1>Insanity shall order her discharge. Mister Sheriff, you will attend

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<v Speaker 1>at once to the execution of this decree. Laura was

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<v Speaker 1>overwhelmed and terror stricken. She had expected to walk forth

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<v Speaker 1>in freedom in a few moments. The revulsion was terrible.

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<v Speaker 1>Her mother appeared like one shaken with an egg. You

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<v Speaker 1>fit Laura insane and about to be locked up with madmen.

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<v Speaker 1>She had never contemplated this. Mister Graham said he should

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<v Speaker 1>move at once for a writ of habeas corpus, but

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<v Speaker 1>the judge could not do less than his duty. The

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<v Speaker 1>law must have its way, as in the stupor of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden calamity, and not fully comprehending it. Missus Hawkins

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<v Speaker 1>saw Laura led away by the officer with little space

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<v Speaker 1>for thought. She was rapidly driven to the railway station

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<v Speaker 1>and conveyed to the hospital for lunatic criminals. It was

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<v Speaker 1>only when she was within this vast and grim abode

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<v Speaker 1>of madness that she realized the horror of her situation.

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<v Speaker 1>It was only when she was received by the kind

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<v Speaker 1>physician and read pity in his eyes, and saw his

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<v Speaker 1>look of hopeless incredulity when she attempted to tell him

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<v Speaker 1>that she was not insane. It was only when she

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<v Speaker 1>passed through the ward to which she was consigned, and

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<v Speaker 1>saw the horrible creatures, the victims of a double calamity,

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<v Speaker 1>whose dreadful faces she was hereafter to see daily, and

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<v Speaker 1>was locked into the small, bare room that was to

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<v Speaker 1>be her home, that all her fortitude forsook her. She

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<v Speaker 1>sank upon the bed as soon as she was left alone.

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<v Speaker 1>She had been searched by the matron and tried to think,

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<v Speaker 1>but her brain was in a whirl. She recalled Braham's speech,

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<v Speaker 1>she recalled a testimony regarding her lunacy. She wondered if

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<v Speaker 1>she were not mad. She felt that she soon should

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<v Speaker 1>be among these loathsome creatures. Better almost to have died

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<v Speaker 1>than to slowly go mad. In this confinement we beg

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<v Speaker 1>the reader's pardon. This is not history which has just

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<v Speaker 1>been written. It is really what would have occurred if

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<v Speaker 1>this were a novel. If this were a work of fiction,

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<v Speaker 1>we should not dare to dispose of Laura. Otherwise, true

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<v Speaker 1>art and any attention to dramatic proprieties required it. The

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<v Speaker 1>novelist who would turn loose upon society an insane, murderous

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<v Speaker 1>could not escape condemnation. Besides the safety of society, the

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<v Speaker 1>decencies of criminal procedure, what we call our modern civilization,

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<v Speaker 1>all would demand that Laura should be disposed of in

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<v Speaker 1>the manner we have described. Foreigners who read this sad

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<v Speaker 1>story will be unable to understand any other termination of it.

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<v Speaker 1>But this is history and not fiction. There is no

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<v Speaker 1>such law or custom as that to which his honor

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<v Speaker 1>is supposed to have deferred. Judge O. Shaughnessy would not

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<v Speaker 1>probably pay any attention to it if there were. There

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<v Speaker 1>is no hospital for insane criminals. There is no state

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<v Speaker 1>Commission of lunacy. What actually occurred when the tumult in

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<v Speaker 1>the courtroom had subsided, the sagacious reader will now learn.

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<v Speaker 1>Laura left the courtroom accompanied by her mother and other friends,

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<v Speaker 1>amid the congratulations of those assembled, and was cheered as

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<v Speaker 1>she entered a carriage and drove away. How sweet was

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<v Speaker 1>the sunlight? How exhilarating the sense of freedom? Were not

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<v Speaker 1>these following cheers the expression of popular approval and affection.

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<v Speaker 1>Was she not the heroine of the hour? It was

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<v Speaker 1>with a feeling of triumph that Laura reached her hotel,

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<v Speaker 1>a scornful feeling of victory over society with its own weapons.

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<v Speaker 1>Missus Hawkins shared not at all in this feeling. She

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<v Speaker 1>was broken with disgrace and the long anxiety. Thank god, Laura,

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<v Speaker 1>she said, it is over now. We will go away

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<v Speaker 1>from this hateful city. Let us go home at once.

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<v Speaker 1>Mother replied Laura, speaking with some tenderness, I cannot go

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<v Speaker 1>with you there. Don't cry, I cannot go back to

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<v Speaker 1>the life. Missus Hawkins was sobbing. This was more cruel

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<v Speaker 1>than anything else, for she had a dim notion of

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<v Speaker 1>what it would be to leave Laura to herself. No, mother,

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<v Speaker 1>you have been everything to me. You know how dearly

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<v Speaker 1>I love you, But I cannot go back. A boy

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<v Speaker 1>brought in a telegraphic dispatch. Laura took it and read

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<v Speaker 1>the bill is lost, dilworthy, ruined, signed Washington. For a

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<v Speaker 1>moment the words swam before her eyes. The next her

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<v Speaker 1>eyes flashed fire as she handed the despatch to her

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<v Speaker 1>mother and bitterly said, the world is against me. Well

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<v Speaker 1>let it be, let it. I am against it. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a cruel disappointment, said missus Hawkins, to whom one

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<v Speaker 1>grief more or less did not much matter now to

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<v Speaker 1>you and Washington. But we must humbly bear it. Bear it,

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<v Speaker 1>replied Laura scornfully. I've all my life borne it, and

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<v Speaker 1>fate has thwarted me at every step. A servant came

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<v Speaker 1>to the door to say that there was a gentleman

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<v Speaker 1>below who wished to speak with Miss Hawkins. J Adolph

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<v Speaker 1>Griller was the name Laura read on the card. I

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<v Speaker 1>do not know such a person. He probably comes from Washington.

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<v Speaker 1>Send him up. Mister Griller entered. He was a small man,

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<v Speaker 1>slovenly in dress, his tone confidential, his manner wholly void

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<v Speaker 1>of animation, all his features below the forehead protruding, particularly

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<v Speaker 1>the apple of his throat, here without a kink in it,

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<v Speaker 1>a hand with no grip, a meek, hang dog countenance.

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<v Speaker 1>He was a falsehood done in flesh and blood. For

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<v Speaker 1>while every visible sign about him proclaimed him a poor, witless,

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<v Speaker 1>useless weakling, the truth was that he had the brains

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<v Speaker 1>to plan great enterprises and the pluck to carry them through.

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<v Speaker 1>That was his reputation, and it was a deserved one.

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<v Speaker 1>He softly said, I called to see you on business,

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Hawkins. You have my card, Laura bowed. Mister Griller

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<v Speaker 1>continued to purr as softly as before. I will proceed

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<v Speaker 1>to business. I am a business man, I am a

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<v Speaker 1>lecture agent, Miss Hawkins, and as soon as I saw

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<v Speaker 1>that you were acquitted, it occurred to me that an

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<v Speaker 1>early interview would be mutually beneficial. I don't understand you, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>said Laura coldly. No, you see, miss Hawkins, this is

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<v Speaker 1>your opportunity. If you will enter the lecture field under

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<v Speaker 1>good auspices, you will carry everything before you. But sir,

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<v Speaker 1>I never lectured I haven't any lecture. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>anything about it, ah madam. That makes no difference, no

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<v Speaker 1>real difference. It is not necessary to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>lecture in order to go into the lecture tour. If

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<v Speaker 1>one's name is celebrated all over the land, especially, and

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<v Speaker 1>if she is also beautiful, she is certain to draw

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<v Speaker 1>large audiences. But what should I lecture about? Asked Laura,

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<v Speaker 1>beginning in spite of herself to be alone, interested as

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<v Speaker 1>well as amused. Oh why a woman? Something about woman?

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<v Speaker 1>I should say the marriage relation, a woman's fate, anything

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<v Speaker 1>of that sort. Call it the revelations of a woman's life.

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<v Speaker 1>Now there is a good title. I wouldn't want any

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<v Speaker 1>better title than that. I'm prepared to make you an offer,

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Hawkins, a liberal offer, twelve thousand dollars for thirty nights.

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<v Speaker 1>Laura thought, she hesitated. Why not? It would give her

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<v Speaker 1>employment money. She must do something. I will think of

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<v Speaker 1>it and let you know soon. But still there is

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<v Speaker 1>very little likelihood that I. However, we will not discuss

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<v Speaker 1>it further. Now, remember that the sooner we get to work,

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<v Speaker 1>the better, Miss Hawkins. Public curiosity is so fickle. Good day, madam.

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<v Speaker 1>The close of the trial released mister Harry Brierly and

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<v Speaker 1>left him free to depart upon his long talked of

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<v Speaker 1>Pacific Coast mission. He was very mysteriou even to Philip.

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<v Speaker 1>It's confidential, old boy, he said, a little scheme we

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<v Speaker 1>have hatched up. I don't mind telling you that it's

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<v Speaker 1>a good deal, bigger thing than that in Missouri, and

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<v Speaker 1>a sure thing. I wouldn't take a half a million

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<v Speaker 1>just for my share, and it will open up something

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<v Speaker 1>for you, Phil You will hear from me. Philip did

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<v Speaker 1>hear from Harry A few months afterwards. Everything promised splendidly,

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<v Speaker 1>but there was a little delay. Could phil let him

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<v Speaker 1>have a hundred, say, for ninety days? Philip himself hastened

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<v Speaker 1>her from such toil. And suffering his increased pecuniary obligation

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<v Speaker 1>oppressed him It seemed to him also that he had

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<v Speaker 1>and that he was dragging into loss and ruin everybody

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<v Speaker 1>who associated with him. He worked on day after day

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<v Speaker 1>and week after week with a feverish anxiety. It would

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<v Speaker 1>be wicked, thought Philip, and impious to pray for luck.

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<v Speaker 1>He felt that perhaps he ought not to ask a

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<v Speaker 1>blessing upon a sort of labor that was only a venture.

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<v Speaker 1>But yet in that daily petition which this very faulty

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<v Speaker 1>and not very consistent young Christian gentleman put up, he

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<v Speaker 1>prayed earnestly enough for Ruth, and for the Boltons, and

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<v Speaker 1>for those whom he loved and who trusted in him,

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<v Speaker 1>and that his life might not be a misfortune to

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<v Speaker 1>them and a failure to himself. Since this young fellow

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<v Speaker 1>went out into the world from his New England home,

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<v Speaker 1>he had done some things that he would rather his

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<v Speaker 1>telling Ruth at a certain green age. Young gentlemen are

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes afraid of being called milk SOPs, and Philip's associates

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<v Speaker 1>had not always been the most select such as these

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<v Speaker 1>historians would have chosen for him, or whom at a

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<v Speaker 1>later period he would have chosen for himself. It seemed inexplicable,

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<v Speaker 1>for instance, that his life should have been thrown so

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<v Speaker 1>much with his college acquaintance Henry Brierly. Yet this was

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<v Speaker 1>true of Philip, that in whatever company he had been,

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<v Speaker 1>he had never been ashamed to stand up for the

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<v Speaker 1>principles he learned from his mother, and neither raillery nor

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<v Speaker 1>looks of wonder turned him from that daily habit he

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<v Speaker 1>learned at his mother's knees. Even flippant Harry respected this,

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<v Speaker 1>and perhaps it was one of the reasons why Harry

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<v Speaker 1>and all who knew Philip trusted him implicitly. And yet

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<v Speaker 1>it must be confessed that Philip did not convey the

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<v Speaker 1>impression to the world of a very serious young man,

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<v Speaker 1>or of a man who might not rather easily fall

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<v Speaker 1>into temptation. One looking for a real hero would have

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<v Speaker 1>to go elsewhere. The parting between Laura and her mother

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<v Speaker 1>was exceedingly painful to both. It was as if two

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<v Speaker 1>friends parted on a wide plain, the one to journey

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<v Speaker 1>towards the setting and the other towards the rising sun,

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<v Speaker 1>each comprehending that every step henceforth must separate their lives

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<v Speaker 1>wider and wider. End of Chapter fifty eight,