40504001@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"The food is wonderful and it is a lot of fun to be here"!@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504002@cf04@formal@none@1@S@So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504003@cf04@formal@none@1@S@In this one sentence, he unwittingly revealed the basic philosophy of the nutrition and psychological programs in operation at the school.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504004@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Because the food is selected with thought for its nutritional value, care for its origin, and prepared in a manner that retains the most nutrients, the food does taste good.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40504005@cf04@formal@none@1@S@When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.@@@@1@61@@oe@1-12-2014
40504006@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Situated in a region of some of the loveliest mountain scenery in the country, the school buildings are located amid open fields and farm lands.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40504007@cf04@formal@none@1@S@These contemporary structures, beautifully adapted to a school in the country, are home to 60 children, ages eight to fourteen, grades four through eight.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40504008@cf04@formal@none@1@S@From fourteen states and three foreign countries they come to spend the months from mid-September to June.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40504009@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The Director, Walter E. Clark, believes that a school with children living full time in its care must take full responsibility for their welfare.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40504010@cf04@formal@none@1@S@To him this means caring for the whole child, providing basic nutrition, and a spiritual attitude that lends freedom for the development of the mind.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40504011@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Improved farming methods@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40504012@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The concept of good nutrition really began with the garden.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504013@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The school has always maintained a farm to supply the needs of the school.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504014@cf04@formal@none@1@S@In a climate hostile to agriculture, Mr. Clark has had to keep alert to the most productive farm techniques.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40504015@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Where a growing season may, with luck, allow 60 days without frost, and where the soil is poor, sandy, quick-drying and subject to erosion, many farmers fail.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40504016@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Throughout the Adirondack region abandoned farm homes and wild orchards bear ghostly testimony that their owners met defeat.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40504017@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Clark found that orthodox procedures of deep plowing, use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides, plus the application of conservation principles of rotation and contouring, did not prevent sheet erosion in the potato fields and depreciation of the soil.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40504018@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"To give up these notions required a revolution in thought", Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading "Organic Gardening" And "Modern Nutrition" in a search for help with his problems.@@@@1@40@@oe@1-12-2014
40504019@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"Louis Bromfield's writings excited me as a conservationist".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40504020@cf04@formal@none@1@S@By 1952 he was convinced he would no longer spray.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504021@cf04@formal@none@1@S@He locked his equipment in a cabinet where it still remains.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40504022@cf04@formal@none@1@S@After reading "Plowman's Folly" by Edward H. Faulkner, he stopped plowing.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40504023@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The basis for compost materials already existed on the school farm with a stable of animals for the riding program, poultry for eggs, pigs to eat garbage, a beef herd and wastes of all kinds.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40504024@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Separate pails were kept in the kitchen for coffee grounds and egg shells.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504025@cf04@formal@none@1@S@All these materials and supplementary manure and other fertilizers from neighboring dairy and poultry farms made over 40 tons of finished compost a year.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40504026@cf04@formal@none@1@S@It was applied with a compost shredder made from a converted manure spreader.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504027@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Years of patient application of compost and leaf mulching has changed the structure of the soil and its water-holding capacity.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40504028@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40504029@cf04@formal@none@1@S@To demonstrate the soil of his vegetable gardens as it is today, Mr. Clark stooped to scoop up a handful of rich dark earth.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40504030@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Sniffing its sweet smell and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consistency, he pointed to the nearby driveway and said, "This soil used to be like that hard packed road over there".@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40504031@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"People and soils respond slowly", says Walter Clark, "but the time has now come when the gardens produce delicious long-keeping vegetables due to this enrichment program.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40504032@cf04@formal@none@1@S@No chemical fertilizers and poisonous insecticides and fungicides are used".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504033@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The garden supplies enough carrots, turnips, rutabagas, potatoes, beets, cabbage and squash to store for winter meals in the root cellar.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504034@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The carrots sometimes don't make it through the winter; the cabbage and squash keep until March or April.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40504035@cf04@formal@none@1@S@There is never enough corn, peas or strawberries.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40504036@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future.@@@@1@44@@oe@1-12-2014
40504037@cf04@formal@none@1@S@A new project planned is the use of Bio-Dynamic Starter.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504038@cf04@formal@none@1@S@New ideas for improving nutrition came with the study of soil treatment.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40504039@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"After the soil, the kitchen", says Mr. Clark.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40504040@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The first major change was that of providing wholewheat bread instead of white bread.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504041@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"Adults take a long time to convince and you are thwarted if you try to push".@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40504042@cf04@formal@none@1@S@At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40504043@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"You can't make French toast with whole-wheat bread", was an early complaint.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40504044@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Of course they learned in time that they not only could use whole-wheat bread, but the children liked it better.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40504045@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Homemade bread@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40504046@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Clark, as house manager, planned the menus and cared for the ordering.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504047@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Then Miss Lillian Colman came from Vermont to be kitchen manager.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40504048@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Today whole grains are freshly ground every day and baked into bread.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40504049@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Clark's studies taught him that the only way to conserve the vitamins in the whole grain was prompt use of the flour.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40504050@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Once the grains are ground, vitamin E begins to deteriorate immediately and half of it is lost by oxidation and exposure to the air within one week.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40504051@cf04@formal@none@1@S@A mill stands in a room off the kitchen.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40504052@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Surrounding it are metal cans of grains ordered from organic farms in the state.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504053@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Miss Colman pours measures of whole wheat, oats, and soy beans and turns on the motor.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40504054@cf04@formal@none@1@S@She goes on about her work and listens for the completion of the grinding.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504055@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The bread baked from this mixture is light in color and fragrant in aroma.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504056@cf04@formal@none@1@S@It is well liked by the children and faculty.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40504057@cf04@formal@none@1@S@There is one problem with the bread.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40504058@cf04@formal@none@1@S@"Lillian's bread is so good and everything tastes so much better here that it is hard not to eat too much", said the secretary ruefully eyeing her extra pounds.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40504059@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Hot, freshly-ground cereal@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40504060@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The school has not used cold prepared cereals for years, though at one time that was all they ever served.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40504061@cf04@formal@none@1@S@When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504062@cf04@formal@none@1@S@They serve cracked wheat, oats or cornmeal.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40504063@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Occasionally, the children find steamed, whole-wheat grains for cereal which they call "buckshot".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504064@cf04@formal@none@1@S@At the beginning of the school year, the new students don't eat the cereal right away, but within a short time they are eating it voraciously.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40504065@cf04@formal@none@1@S@When they leave for vacations they miss the hot cereal.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504066@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The school has received letters from parents asking, "What happened to Johnny?@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40504067@cf04@formal@none@1@S@He never used to like any hot cereal, now that's the only kind he wants.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40504068@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Where can we get this cereal he likes so much"?@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504069@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Body-building foods@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40504070@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Salads are served at least once a day.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40504071@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Vegetables are served liberally.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40504072@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Most come from the root cellar or from the freezer.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504073@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Home-made sauerkraut is served once a week.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40504074@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Sprouted grains and seeds are used in salads and dishes such as chop suey.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504075@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Sometimes sprouted wheat is added to bread and causes the children to remark, "Lillian, did you put nuts in the bread today"?@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40504076@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Milk appears twice a day.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40504077@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The school raises enough poultry, pigs, and beef cattle for most of their needs.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504078@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Lots of cheese made from June grass milk is served.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504079@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Hens are kept on the range and roosters are kept with them for their fertility.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40504080@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Organ meats such as beef and chicken liver, tongue and heart are planned once a week.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40504081@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Also, salt water fish is on the table once a week.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40504082@cf04@formal@none@1@S@For deserts, puddings and pies are each served once a week.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40504083@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40504084@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Dried fruits are purchased from sources where they are neither sulphured nor sprayed.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504085@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Apples come from a farm in Vermont where they are not sprayed.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40504086@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Oranges and grapefruit are shipped from Florida weekly from an organic farm.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40504087@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Finding sources for these high quality foods is a problem.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504088@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Sometimes the solution comes in unexpected ways.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40504089@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Following a talk by Mr. Clark at the New York State Natural Food Associates Convention, a man from the audience offered to ship his unsprayed apples to the school from Vermont.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40504090@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Wheat-germ, brewer's yeast and ground kelp are used in bread and in dishes such as spaghetti sauce, meat loaves.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40504091@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Miss Colman hopes to find suitable shakers so that kelp can be available at the tables.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40504092@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Raw wheat-germ is available on the breakfast table for the children to help themselves.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504093@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Very few fried foods are used and the use of salt and pepper is discouraged.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40504094@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Drinking with meals is also discouraged; pitchers of water merely appear on the tables.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504095@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Nothing is peeled.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40504096@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The source is known so there is no necessity to remove insecticide residues.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504097@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The cooking conserves a maximum of the vitamin C content of vegetables by methods which use very little water and cook in the shortest time possible.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40504098@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Wholesome snacks, no candy@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40504099@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Since Mr. Clark believes firmly that the chewing of hard foods helps develop healthy gums and teeth, raw vegetables and raw whole-wheat grains are handed out with fresh fruit and whole-wheat cookies at snack time in the afternoons.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
40504100@cf04@formal@none@1@S@To solve the problem of the wheat grains spilling on the floor and getting underfoot, a ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was invented to hold the grains.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40504101@cf04@formal@none@1@S@On their frequent hikes into the nearby mountains, the children carry whole grains to munch along the trail.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40504102@cf04@formal@none@1@S@They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40504103@cf04@formal@none@1@S@They tasted good to him, so he brought some to breakfast to eat in his cereal bowl with milk and honey.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504104@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Maple syrup is made by the children in the woods on the school grounds.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504105@cf04@formal@none@1@S@This and raw sugar replace ordinary refined sugar on the tables and very little sugar is used in cooking.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40504106@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Candy is not allowed.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40504107@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Parents are asked in the bulletin to send packages of treats consisting of fruit and nuts, but no candy.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40504108@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Nourishing meals@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40504109@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Mr. Clark believes in a good full breakfast of fruit, hot cereal, milk, honey, whole-wheat toast with real butter and eggs.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504110@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The heavy meal comes in the middle of the day.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40504111@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Soup is often the important dish at supper.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40504112@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Homemade of meat, bones and vegetables, it is rich in dissolved minerals and vitamins.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40504113@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The school finds that the children are satisfied with smaller amounts of food since all of it is high in quality.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40504114@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The cost to feed one person is just under one dollar a day.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40504115@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Outdoor exercises@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40504116@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Even before he saw the necessity of growing better food and planning good nutrition, Mr. Clark felt the school had a good health program.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40504117@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Rugged outdoor exercise for an hour and a half every day in all kinds of weather was the rule.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40504118@cf04@formal@none@1@S@A vigorous program existed in skiing, skating sports and overnight hiking.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40504119@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Healthier children@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40504120@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Since the change to better nutrition, he feels he can report on improvements in health, though he considers the following statements observations and not scientific proof.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40504121@cf04@formal@none@1@S@Visitors to the school ask what shampoo they use on the children's hair to bring out the sheen.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40504122@cf04@formal@none@1@S@The ruddy complexion of the faces also brings comment.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506001@cf06@formal@none@1@S@How did I get to be sixty-five so fast?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506002@cf06@formal@none@1@S@What do I do now"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506003@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Yes, retirement seems to creep upon you suddenly.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506004@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Somehow we old-timers never figured we would ever retire.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506005@cf06@formal@none@1@S@We always thought we would die with our boots on.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506006@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Out of the blue comes talk of pension plans.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506007@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Compulsory retirement at sixty-five looms on our horizon.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506008@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Still, it seems in the far future.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506009@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Suddenly, one day, up it pops!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506010@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Sixty-five years and you've had it!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506011@cf06@formal@none@1@S@So, now what?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506012@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Oh sure!@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40506013@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You've thought about it before in a hazy sort of way.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506014@cf06@formal@none@1@S@But!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506015@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It never seemed real; never seemed as if it could happen to you; only to the other fellow.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40506016@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Now!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506017@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Here it is!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506018@cf06@formal@none@1@S@How am I going to live?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506019@cf06@formal@none@1@S@What am I going to do?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506020@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Where do I go from here?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506021@cf06@formal@none@1@S@A great many retired people are the so-called white collar workers.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506022@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Are you one of these?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506023@cf06@formal@none@1@S@If so, you are of the old school.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506024@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You are conscientious, hard working, honest, accurate, a good penman, and a stickler for a job well done, with no loose ends.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40506025@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Everything must balance to the last penny.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506026@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Also you can spell, without consulting a dictionary for every other word.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40506027@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You never are late for work and seldom absent.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506028@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Actually, you can take no special credit for this.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506029@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It is the way you were taught and your way of life.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40506030@cf06@formal@none@1@S@All this is standard equipment for a man of your day; your stock in trade; your livelihood.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40506031@cf06@formal@none@1@S@However, the last few years of your life, things seem to be changing.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40506032@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Your way doesn't seem to be so darned important any more.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506033@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You realize you are getting in the old fogy class.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506034@cf06@formal@none@1@S@To put it bluntly, you are getting out-moded.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506035@cf06@formal@none@1@S@What's happened?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40506036@cf06@formal@none@1@S@The answer is a new era.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506037@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Now, looming on the horizon are such things as estimated totals, calculated risks and I.B.M. machines.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40506038@cf06@formal@none@1@S@The Planning Dept. comes into existence.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506039@cf06@formal@none@1@S@All sorts of plans come to life.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506040@cf06@formal@none@1@S@This is followed by a boom in conferences.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506041@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Yes sir!@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40506042@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Conferences become very popular.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40506043@cf06@formal@none@1@S@When a plan burst its seams, hasty conferences supply the necessary patch, and life goes merrily on.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40506044@cf06@formal@none@1@S@That's called progress!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506045@cf06@formal@none@1@S@The new way of life!@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506046@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Let's face it!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506047@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You had your day and it was a good day.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506048@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Let this generation have theirs.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506049@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Time marches on!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506050@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Well, to get back to the problem of retirement.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506051@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Every retiring person has a different situation facing him.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506052@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some have plenty of money -- some have very little money.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506053@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some are blest with an abundance of good health -- some are in poor health and many are invalids.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40506054@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some have lovely homes -- some live in small apartments.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506055@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some have beautiful gardens -- some not even a blade of grass.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40506056@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some have serenity of mind, the ability to accept what they have, and make the most of it (a wonderful gift to have, believe me) -- some see only darkness, the bitter side of everything.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40506057@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Well, whatever you have, that's it!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506058@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You've got to learn to live with it.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506059@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Now!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506060@cf06@formal@none@1@S@The question is "How are you going to live with it"?@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506061@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You can sit back and moan and bewail your lot.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506062@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Yes!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506063@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You can do this.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40506064@cf06@formal@none@1@S@But, if you do, your life will be just one thing -- unhappiness -- complete and unabridged.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40506065@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It seems to me, the first thing you've got to do, to be happy, is to face up to your problems, no matter what they may be.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40506066@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Make up your mind to pool your resources and get the most out of your remaining years of life.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40506067@cf06@formal@none@1@S@One thing, I am sure of, you must get an interest in life.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40506068@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You've got to do something.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506069@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Many of you will say, "Well, what can I do"?@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506070@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Believe me!@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40506071@cf06@formal@none@1@S@There are many, many things to do.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506072@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Find out what you like to do most and really give it a whirl.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40506073@cf06@formal@none@1@S@If you can't think of a thing to do, try something -- anything.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40506074@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Maybe you will surprise yourself.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506075@cf06@formal@none@1@S@True!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506076@cf06@formal@none@1@S@We are not all great artists.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506077@cf06@formal@none@1@S@I, frankly, can't draw a straight line.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506078@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Maybe you are not that gifted either, but how about puttering around with the old paints?@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40506079@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You may amaze yourself and acquire a real knack for it.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506080@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Anyway, I'll bet you have a lot of fun.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506081@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Do you like to sew?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506082@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Does making your own clothes or even doll clothes, interest you?@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40506083@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Do you love to run up a hem, sew on buttons, make neat buttonholes?@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40506084@cf06@formal@none@1@S@If you do, go to it.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506085@cf06@formal@none@1@S@There is always a market for this line of work.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506086@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some women can sit and sew, crochet, tat or knit by the hour, and look calm and relaxed and turn out beautiful work.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40506087@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Where sewing is concerned, I'm a total loss.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506088@cf06@formal@none@1@S@When you see a needle in my hands you will know the family buttons have fallen off and I have to sew them back on, or get out the safety pins.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40506089@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Then again, there's always that lovely old pastime of hooking or braiding rugs.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40506090@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Not for me, but perhaps just the thing for you.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506091@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Well!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506092@cf06@formal@none@1@S@How's about mosaic tile, ceramics or similar arts and crafts?@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506093@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some people love to crack tile and it's amazing what beautiful designs they come up with as a result of their cracking good time.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40506094@cf06@formal@none@1@S@How about the art of cooking?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40506095@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Do you yearn to make cakes and pies, or special cookies and candies?@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40506096@cf06@formal@none@1@S@There is always an open market for this sort of delicacy, in spite of low calorie diets, cottage cheese and hands-off-all-sweets to the contrary.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40506097@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some people can carve most anything out of a piece of wood.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40506098@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some make beautiful chairs, cabinets, chests, doll houses, etc.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506099@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps you couldn't do that but have you ever tried to see what you could do with a hunk of wood?@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40506100@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Outside of cutting your fingers, maybe you would come up with nothing at all, but then again, you might turn out some dandy little gadgets.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40506101@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Some women get a real thrill out of housework.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40506102@cf06@formal@none@1@S@They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40506103@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Maybe that's your forte.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40506104@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It certainly isn't mine.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40506105@cf06@formal@none@1@S@I can look at furniture in one spot year in and year out and really feel for sure that's where it belongs.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40506106@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps you would like to become a writer.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506107@cf06@formal@none@1@S@This gives you a wide and varied choice.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506108@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious?@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40506109@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40506110@cf06@formal@none@1@S@If you do decide to write, you will soon become acquainted with rejection slips and dejection.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40506111@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Don't be discouraged!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506112@cf06@formal@none@1@S@This is just being a normal writer.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506113@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Just let the rejection slips fall where they may, and keep on plugging, and finally you will make the grade.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40506114@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40506115@cf06@formal@none@1@S@But, it could happen, and it may happen to you.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506116@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Then there's always hobbies, collecting stamps, coins, timetables, salt and pepper shakers, elephants, dogs, dolls, shells, or shall we just say collecting anything your heart desires?@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40506117@cf06@formal@none@1@S@I can hear some of you folks protesting.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506118@cf06@formal@none@1@S@You say, "But it costs a lot of money to have a hobby.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40506119@cf06@formal@none@1@S@I haven't got that kind of money".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506120@cf06@formal@none@1@S@True!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40506121@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It does cost a lot of money for most hobbies but there are hobbies that are for free.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40506122@cf06@formal@none@1@S@How about a rock collection, or a collection of leaves from different trees or shrubs and in different colors?@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40506123@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Then, take flowers.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40506124@cf06@formal@none@1@S@They are many and varied.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506125@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Also, there's scrap books, collecting newspaper pictures and clippings, or any items of interest to you.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40506126@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It's getting interested in something that counts.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506127@cf06@formal@none@1@S@As for me, I am holding in reserve two huge puzzles (I love puzzles) to put together when time hangs heavy on my hands.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40506128@cf06@formal@none@1@S@So far, the covers have never been off the boxes.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40506129@cf06@formal@none@1@S@I just don't have time to do half the things I want to do now.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40506130@cf06@formal@none@1@S@So in closing, fellow retired members, I advise you to make the most of each day, enjoy each one to the n'th degree.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40506131@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Travel, if you can.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40506132@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Keep occupied to the point you are not bored with life and you will truly find these final days and years of your lives to be sunshine sweet.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40506133@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Good Luck!@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
40506134@cf06@formal@none@1@S@To one and all -- Good Days ahead!@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40506135@cf06@formal@none@1@S@An important criterion of maturity is creativity.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40506136@cf06@formal@none@1@S@The mature person is creative.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40506137@cf06@formal@none@1@S@What does it mean to be creative, a term we hear with increasing frequency these days?@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40506138@cf06@formal@none@1@S@When we turn to Noah Webster we find him helpful as usual.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40506139@cf06@formal@none@1@S@"To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power".@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40506140@cf06@formal@none@1@S@We are creative, it seems, when we produce something which has not previously existed.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40506141@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Thus creativity may run all the way from making a cake, building a chicken coop, or producing a book, to founding a business, creating a League of Nations or, developing a mature character.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40506142@cf06@formal@none@1@S@All living creatures from the lowest form of insect or animal life evidence the power of creativity, if it is only to reproduce a form like their own.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40506143@cf06@formal@none@1@S@While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40506144@cf06@formal@none@1@S@An animal, bird or insect creates either a burrow, or nest or hive in unending sameness according to specie.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40506145@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Man's great superiority over these evolutionary forbears is in the development of his imagination.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40506146@cf06@formal@none@1@S@This gives him the power to form in his mind new image combinations of old memories, ideas and experiences and to project them outside of himself into his environment in new and ever-changing forms.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40506147@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It has been truly said that anything man can imagine he can produce or create by projecting this inner image into its counterpart in the objective world.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40506148@cf06@formal@none@1@S@In our own time we have seen the most fantastic imagery of a Jules Verne come into actuality.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40506149@cf06@formal@none@1@S@The vision of a Lord Tennyson expressed in a poem 100 years ago took visible form over London in the air blitzes of 1941.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40506150@cf06@formal@none@1@S@In fact all of our civilized world is the resultant of man's projection of his imagination over the past 60 centuries or more.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40506151@cf06@formal@none@1@S@It is in this one aspect, at least, that man seems to be made in the image of his Creator.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40506152@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Not only can man project his imagination out into his environment in concrete forms, but even more importantly, he can turn it inward to help create new and better forms of himself.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40506153@cf06@formal@none@1@S@We recognize that young people through imaginative mind and body training can become athletes, acrobats, dancers, musicians and artists, developing many potentialities.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40506154@cf06@formal@none@1@S@We know that actors can learn to portray a wide variety of character roles.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40506155@cf06@formal@none@1@S@By this same combination of the will and the imagination, each one of us can learn to portray permanently the kind of character we would like to be.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40506156@cf06@formal@none@1@S@We must realize with Prof. Charles Morris in his The Open Self that "Man is the being that can continually remake himself, the artisan that is himself the material for his own creation".@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40506157@cf06@formal@none@1@S@So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40506158@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40506159@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Is it not the obligation of us older citizens to lend our weight to being creative on the character side and to hasten our own maturing process?@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40506160@cf06@formal@none@1@S@Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.@@@@1@53@@oe@1-12-2014
40510001@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Franklin D. Lee proved a man of prompt action when Mrs. Claire Shaefer, accompanied by a friend, visited him in Bakersfield, California, several months ago as a prospective patient.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40510002@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"Doctor" Lee asked her to lie down on a bed and remove her shoes.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40510003@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Then, by squeezing her foot three times, he came up -- presto -- with a different diagnosis with each squeeze.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40510004@cf10@formal@none@1@S@She had -- he informed her -- kidney trouble, liver trouble, and a severe female disorder.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40510005@cf10@formal@none@1@S@(He explained that he could diagnose these ailments from squeezing her foot because all of the nervous system was connected to it.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40510006@cf10@formal@none@1@S@) He knew just the thing for her -- a treatment from his "cosmic light ozone generator" machine.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40510007@cf10@formal@none@1@S@As he applied the applicator extending from the machine -- which consisted of seven differently colored neon tubes superimposed on a rectangular base -- to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs. Shaefer's body, Lee kept up a steady stream of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
40510008@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Yes, the ozone from his machine would cure practically everything, he assured her.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40510009@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Did she know, he asked, why the colors of the tubes were important to people's health?@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40510010@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The human body -- he pointed out, for example -- required 33 units of blue light.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40510011@cf10@formal@none@1@S@For that reason, he informed her, the Lord made the sky blue.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510012@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Continuing glibly in this vein, he paused to comfort her: "Don't you worry.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40510013@cf10@formal@none@1@S@This machine will cure your cancer-ridden body".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40510014@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"Cancer"! Mrs. Shaefer practically shrieked.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40510015@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"You didn't tell me I had cancer".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40510016@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"You have it, all right.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40510017@cf10@formal@none@1@S@But as long as you can have treatment from my machine you have nothing to worry about.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40510018@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Why, I once used this machine to cure a woman with 97 pounds of cancer in her body".@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40510019@cf10@formal@none@1@S@He urged her to buy one of his machines -- for $300.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510020@cf10@formal@none@1@S@When she said that she didn't have the money, he said that she could come in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40510021@cf10@formal@none@1@S@He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment, a can of sage "to make her look like a girl again", and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40510022@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Lee renewed his pressure on Mrs. Shaefer to buy his machine when she visited him the next day.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40510023@cf10@formal@none@1@S@After another treatment with the machine, he told her that "her entire body was shot through with tumors and cysts".@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40510024@cf10@formal@none@1@S@He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40510025@cf10@formal@none@1@S@When she submitted to his treatment with the capsules, Mrs. Shaefer felt intense pain.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40510026@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Leaving Lee's office, Mrs. Shaefer hurried over to her family physician, who treated her for burned tissue.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40510027@cf10@formal@none@1@S@For several days, she was ill as a result of Lee's treatment.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510028@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Shaefer never got around to joining the thousand or so people who paid Lee some $30,000 for his ozone machines.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40510029@cf10@formal@none@1@S@For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
40510030@cf10@formal@none@1@S@And she felt amply rewarded for her suffering when the evidence of Lee's quack shenanigans, gathered by the tape recorder under her friend's clothing, proved adequate in court for convicting Franklin D. Lee.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40510031@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The charge: violation of the California Medical Practices Act by practicing medicine without a license and selling misbranded drugs.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40510032@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The sentence: 360 days' confinement in the county jail.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40510033@cf10@formal@none@1@S@An isolated case of quackery?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40510034@cf10@formal@none@1@S@By no means.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40510035@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Rather, it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate, ethical medical treatment of serious diseases.@@@@1@45@@oe@1-12-2014
40510036@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The machine quack makes his Rube Goldberg devices out of odds and ends of metals, wires, and radio parts.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40510037@cf10@formal@none@1@S@With these gadgets -- impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light bulbs, ticks, and buzzes -- he then carries out a vicious medical con game, capitalizing on people's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
40510038@cf10@formal@none@1@S@He milks the latest scientific advances, translating them into his own special Buck Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay fever to sexual impotence and cancer.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40510039@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The gadget faker operates or sells his phony machines for $5 to $10,000 -- anything the traffic will bear.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40510040@cf10@formal@none@1@S@He may call himself a anaprapath, a physiotherapist, an electrotherapist, a naturopath, a sanipractor, a medical cultist, a masseur, a "doctor" -- or what have you.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40510041@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Not only do these quacks assume impressive titles, but represent themselves as being associated with various scientific or impressive foundations -- foundations which often have little more than a letterhead existence.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40510042@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The medical device pirate of today, of course, is a far more sophisticated operator than his predecessor of yesteryear -- the gallus-snapping hawker of snake oil and other patent medicines.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40510043@cf10@formal@none@1@S@His plunder is therefore far higher -- running into hundreds of millions.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510044@cf10@formal@none@1@S@According to the Food And Drug Administration (FDA), "Doctor" Ghadiali, Dr. Albert Abrams and his clique, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich -- to name three notorious device quacks -- succeeded, respectively, in distributing 10,000, 5000, and 2000 fake health machines.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40510045@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Authorities believe that many of the Doctor Frauds using these false health gadgets are still in business.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40510046@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Look at the sums paid by two device quack victims in Cleveland.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510047@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Sarah Gross, a dress shop proprietor, paid $1020 to a masseur, and Mr. A., a laborer, paid $4200 to a chiropractor for treatment with two fake health machines -- the "radioclast" and the "diagnometer".@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40510048@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Multiply these figures by the millions of people known to be conned by medical pirates annually.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40510049@cf10@formal@none@1@S@You will come up with a frightening total.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40510050@cf10@formal@none@1@S@That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the National Better Business Bureau (BBB) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40510051@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The Postmaster General recently reported that mail order frauds -- among which fake therapeutic devices figure prominently -- are at the highest level in history.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40510052@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Similarly, the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the BBB have each stated lately that medical quackery is at a new high.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40510053@cf10@formal@none@1@S@For example, the BBB has reported it was receiving four times as many inquiries about quack devices and 10 times as many complaints compared with two years ago.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40510054@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures, however, believing that any sum they come up with is only a surface manifestation -- turned up by their inevitably limited policing -- of the real loot of the medical racketeer.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40510055@cf10@formal@none@1@S@In this sense, authorities believe that all estimates of phony device quackery are conservative.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40510056@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The economic toll that the device quack extracts is important, of course.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510057@cf10@formal@none@1@S@But it is our health -- more precious than all the money in the world -- that these modern witch doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40510058@cf10@formal@none@1@S@By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40510059@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Typically, Sarah Gross and Mr. A both lost more than their money as the result of their experiences with their Cleveland quacks.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40510060@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Sarah Gross found that the treatments given her for a nervous ailment by the masseur were not helping her.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40510061@cf10@formal@none@1@S@As a result, she consulted medical authorities and learned that the devices her quack "doctor" was using were phony.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40510062@cf10@formal@none@1@S@She suffered a nervous breakdown and had to be institutionalized.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40510063@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Mr. A., her fellow townsman, also experienced a nervous breakdown just as soon as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife -- a woman suffering from an incurable disease, multiple sclerosis -- and himself.@@@@1@48@@oe@1-12-2014
40510064@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Mr. A has recovered, but he is, justifiably, a bitter man.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40510065@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"That's a lot of hard-earned money to lose", he says today.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40510066@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"Neither me nor my wife were helped by that chiropractor's treatments".@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40510067@cf10@formal@none@1@S@And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
40510068@cf10@formal@none@1@S@After his pains got worse, Tom decided to see a real doctor, from whom he learned he was suffering from cancer of the lung.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40510069@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Yes, Tom caught it in time to stay alive.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40510070@cf10@formal@none@1@S@But he's a welfare case now -- a human wreck -- thanks to this modern witch doctor.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40510071@cf10@formal@none@1@S@But the machine quack can cause far more than just suffering.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40510072@cf10@formal@none@1@S@In such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, and heart disease, early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the waste of time by the patient with Doctor Fraud's cure-all gadget can prove fatal.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40510073@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, the diabetic patient who relies on cure by the quack device and therefore cuts off his insulin intake can be committing suicide.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40510074@cf10@formal@none@1@S@For instance: In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a "magic spike" -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.@@@@1@61@@oe@1-12-2014
40510075@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"Hang this around your neck or attach it to other parts of your anatomy, and its rays will cure any disease you have", said the company.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40510076@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Mr. H. is dead today because he followed this advice.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40510077@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Doris Hull, suffering from tuberculosis, was taken by her husband to see Otis G. Carroll, a sanipractor -- a licensed drugless healer -- in Spokane.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40510078@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Carroll diagnosed Mrs. Hull by taking a drop of blood from her ear and putting it on his "radionic" machine and twirling some knobs (fee $50).@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40510079@cf10@formal@none@1@S@His prescription: hot and cold compresses to increase her absorption of water.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40510080@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Although she weighed only 108 pounds when she visited him, Carroll permitted her to go on a 10-day fast in which she took nothing but water.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40510081@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Inevitably, Mrs. Hull died of starvation and tuberculosis, weighing 60 pounds.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40510082@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, her husband and child contracted T.B. from her.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40510083@cf10@formal@none@1@S@(Small wonder a Spokane jury awarded the husband $35,823 for his wife's death.)@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40510084@cf10@formal@none@1@S@In California, a few years ago, a ghoul by the name of H. F. Bell sold electric blankets as a cure for cancer.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40510085@cf10@formal@none@1@S@He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40510086@cf10@formal@none@1@S@When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license (he got off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77), one of his victims was not around to testify: He was dead of cancer.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
40510087@cf10@formal@none@1@S@By no means are these isolated cases.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40510088@cf10@formal@none@1@S@"Unfortunately", says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, "the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court".@@@@1@47@@oe@1-12-2014
40510089@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Death!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40510090@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Have no doubt about it.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40510091@cf10@formal@none@1@S@That's where device quackery can lead.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40510092@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The evidence shows that fake therapeutic machines, substituted for valid medical cures, have hastened the deaths of thousands.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40510093@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Who are the victims of the device quacks?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40510094@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Authorities say that oldsters are a prime target.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40510095@cf10@formal@none@1@S@Says Wallace F. Jannsen, director of the FDA's Division of Public Information: "Quacks are apt to direct their appeal directly to older people, or to sufferers from chronic ailments such as arthritis, rheumatism, diabetes, and cancer.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40510096@cf10@formal@none@1@S@People who have not been able to get relief from regular medical doctors are especially apt to be taken in by quacks".@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40510097@cf10@formal@none@1@S@The victims of the quacks are frequently poor people, like Mr. A., who scrape up their life savings to offer as a sacrifice to Doctor Fraud's avarice.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40510098@cf10@formal@none@1@S@They are often ignorant as well as underprivileged.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40521001@cf21@formal@none@1@S@A tsunami may be started by a sea bottom slide, an earthquake or a volcanic eruption.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40521002@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The most infamous of all was launched by the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883; it raced across the Pacific at 300 miles an hour, devastated the coasts of Java and Sumatra with waves 100 to 130 feet high, and pounded the shore as far away as San Francisco.@@@@1@51@@oe@1-12-2014
40521003@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The ancient Greeks recorded several catastrophic inundations by huge waves.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40521004@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40521005@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, a tremendously destructive tsunami that arose in the Arabian Sea in 1945 has even revived the interest of geologists and archaeologists in the Biblical story of the Flood.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40521006@cf21@formal@none@1@S@One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755; its waves persisted for a week and were felt as far away as the English coast.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40521007@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Tsunami are rare, however, in the Atlantic Ocean; they are far more common in the Pacific.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40521008@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Japan has had 15 destructive ones (eight of them disastrous) since 1596.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521009@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The Hawaiian Islands are struck severely an average of once every 25 years.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521010@cf21@formal@none@1@S@In 1707 an earthquake in Japan generated waves so huge that they piled into the Inland Sea; one wave swamped more than 1,000 ships and boats in Osaka Bay.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40521011@cf21@formal@none@1@S@A tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands in 1869 washed away an entire town (Ponoluu), leaving only two forlorn trees standing where the community had been.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40521012@cf21@formal@none@1@S@In 1896 a Japanese tsunami killed 27,000 people and swept away 10,000 homes.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521013@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The dimensions of these waves dwarf all our usual standards of measurement.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521014@cf21@formal@none@1@S@An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40521015@cf21@formal@none@1@S@But a tsunami often extends more than 100 miles and sometimes as much as 600 miles from crest to crest.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40521016@cf21@formal@none@1@S@While a wind wave never travels at more than 60 miles per hour, the velocity of a tsunami in the open sea must be reckoned in hundreds of miles per hour.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40521017@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The greater the depth of the water, the greater is the speed of the wave; Lagrange's law says that its velocity is equal to the square root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due to gravity.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40521018@cf21@formal@none@1@S@In the deep waters of the Pacific these waves reach a speed of 500 miles per hour.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40521019@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Tsunami are so shallow in comparison with their length that in the open ocean they are hardly detectable.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40521020@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Their amplitude sometimes is as little as two feet from trough to crest.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521021@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Usually it is only when they approach shallow water on the shore that they build up to their terrifying heights.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40521022@cf21@formal@none@1@S@On the fateful day in 1896 when the great waves approached Japan, fishermen at sea noticed no unusual swells.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521023@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40521024@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The seemingly quiet ocean had crashed a wall of water from 10 to 100 feet high upon beaches crowded with bathers, drowning thousands of them and flattening villages along the shore.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40521025@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The giant waves are more dangerous on flat shores than on steep ones.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521026@cf21@formal@none@1@S@They usually range from 20 to 60 feet in height, but when they pour into a V-shaped inlet or harbor they may rise to mountainous proportions.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40521027@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Generally the first salvo of a tsunami is a rather sharp swell, not different enough from an ordinary wave to alarm casual observers.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40521028@cf21@formal@none@1@S@This is followed by a tremendous suck of water away from the shore as the first great trough arrives.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521029@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Reefs are left high and dry, and the beaches are covered with stranded fish.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40521030@cf21@formal@none@1@S@At Hilo large numbers of people ran out to inspect the amazing spectacle of the denuded beach.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40521031@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40521032@cf21@formal@none@1@S@After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40521033@cf21@formal@none@1@S@When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521034@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Just as they reached the shore, the first huge wave crashed upon them.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521035@cf21@formal@none@1@S@A tsunami is not a single wave but a series.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40521036@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The waves are separated by intervals of 15 minutes to an hour or more (because of their great length), and this has often lulled people into thinking after the first great wave has crashed that it is all over.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40521037@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The waves may keep coming for many hours.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40521038@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Usually the third to the eighth waves in the series are the biggest.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521039@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40521040@cf21@formal@none@1@S@He was able to make a detailed inspection of the waves.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40521041@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Their onrush and retreat, he reported, was accompanied by a great hissing, roaring and rattling.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40521042@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The third and fourth waves seemed to be the highest.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40521043@cf21@formal@none@1@S@On some of the islands' beaches the waves came in gently; they were steepest on the shores facing the direction of the seaquake from which the waves had come.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40521044@cf21@formal@none@1@S@In Hilo Bay they were from 21 to 26 feet high.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40521045@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The highest waves, 55 feet, occurred at Pololu Valley.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40521046@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Scientists and fishermen have occasionally seen strange by-products of the phenomenon.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40521047@cf21@formal@none@1@S@During a 1933 tsunami in Japan the sea glowed brilliantly at night.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521048@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40521049@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Japanese fishermen have sometimes observed that sardines hauled up in their nets during a tsunami have enormously swollen stomachs; the fish have swallowed vast numbers of bottom-living diatoms, raised to the surface by the disturbance.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40521050@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The waves of a 1923 tsunami in Sagami Bay brought to the surface and battered to death huge numbers of fishes that normally live at a depth of 3,000 feet.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40521051@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Gratified fishermen hauled them in by the thousands.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40521052@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The tsunami-warning system developed since the 1946 disaster in Hawaii relies mainly on a simple and ingenious instrument devised by Commander C. K. Green of the Coast and Geodetic Survey staff.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40521053@cf21@formal@none@1@S@It consists of a series of pipes and a pressure-measuring chamber which record the rise and fall of the water surface.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40521054@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Ordinary water tides are disregarded.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40521055@cf21@formal@none@1@S@But when waves with a period of between 10 and 40 minutes begin to roll over the ocean, they set in motion a corresponding oscillation in a column of mercury which closes an electric circuit.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40521056@cf21@formal@none@1@S@This in turn sets off an alarm, notifying the observers at the station that a tsunami is in progress.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521057@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Such equipment has been installed at Hilo, Midway, Attu and Dutch Harbor.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521058@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The moment the alarm goes off, information is immediately forwarded to Honolulu, which is the center of the warning system.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40521059@cf21@formal@none@1@S@This center also receives prompt reports on earthquakes from four Coast Survey stations in the Pacific which are equipped with seismographs.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40521060@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Its staff makes a preliminary determination of the epicenter of the quake and alerts tide stations near the epicenter for a tsunami.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40521061@cf21@formal@none@1@S@By means of charts showing wave-travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations, it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time of arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under way at any spot in the Pacific.@@@@1@43@@oe@1-12-2014
40521062@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The civil and military authorities are then advised of the danger, and they issue warnings and take all necessary protective steps.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40521063@cf21@formal@none@1@S@All of these activities are geared to a top-priority communication system, and practice tests have been held to assure that everything will work smoothly.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40521064@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Since the 1946 disaster there have been 15 tsunami in the Pacific, but only one was of any consequence.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521065@cf21@formal@none@1@S@On November 4, 1952, an earthquake occurred under the sea off the Kamchatka Peninsula.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40521066@cf21@formal@none@1@S@At 17:07 that afternoon (Greenwich time) the shock was recorded by the seismograph alarm in Honolulu.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40521067@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The warning system immediately went into action.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40521068@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40521069@cf21@formal@none@1@S@While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific (Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.@@@@1@53@@oe@1-12-2014
40521070@cf21@formal@none@1@S@It turned out that the waves were not so high as in 1946.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521071@cf21@formal@none@1@S@They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu Harbor, knocked down telephone lines, marooned automobiles, flooded lawns, killed six cows.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40521072@cf21@formal@none@1@S@But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521073@cf21@formal@none@1@S@There is little doubt that the warning system saved lives and reduced the damage.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40521074@cf21@formal@none@1@S@But it is plain that a warning system, however efficient, is not enough.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521075@cf21@formal@none@1@S@In the vulnerable areas of the Pacific there should be restrictions against building homes on exposed coasts, or at least a requirement that they be either raised off the ground or anchored strongly against waves.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40521076@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The key to the world of geology is change; nothing remains the same.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40521077@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Life has evolved from simple combinations of molecules in the sea to complex combinations in man.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40521078@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The land, too, is changing, and earthquakes are daily reminders of this.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521079@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Earthquakes result when movements in the earth twist rocks until they break.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521080@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface; often the shifts cannot be seen, but they are there; and everywhere can be found scars of earlier breaks once deeply buried.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40521081@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Today's earthquakes are most numerous in belts where the earth's restlessness is presently concentrated, but scars of the past show that there is no part of the earth that has not had them.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40521082@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The effects of earthquakes on civilization have been widely publicized, even overemphasized.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521083@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40521084@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Superstition has often blended with fact to color reports.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40521085@cf21@formal@none@1@S@We have learned from earthquakes much of what we now know about the earth's interior, for they send waves through the earth which emerge with information about the materials through which they have traveled.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40521086@cf21@formal@none@1@S@These waves have shown that 1,800 miles below the surface a liquid core begins, and that it, in turn, has a solid inner core.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40521087@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Earthquakes originate as far as 400 miles below the surface, but they do not occur at greater depths.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40521088@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Two unsolved mysteries are based on these facts.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40521089@cf21@formal@none@1@S@(1) As far down as 400 miles below the surface the material should be hot enough to be plastic and adjust itself to twisting forces by sluggish flow rather than by breaking, as rigid surface rocks do.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40521090@cf21@formal@none@1@S@(2) If earthquakes do occur at such depths, why not deeper?@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40521091@cf21@formal@none@1@S@Knowledge gained from studying earthquake waves has been applied in various fields.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40521092@cf21@formal@none@1@S@In the search for oil and gas, we make similar waves under controlled conditions with dynamite and learn from them where there are buried rock structures favorable to the accumulation of these resources.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40521093@cf21@formal@none@1@S@We have also developed techniques for recognizing and locating underground nuclear tests through the waves in the ground which they generate.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40521094@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40521095@cf21@formal@none@1@S@The restless earth and its interior@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40521096@cf21@formal@none@1@S@At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40521097@cf21@formal@none@1@S@A sharp tremor was followed by a jerky roll.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40607001@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Once again, as in the days of the Founding Fathers, America faces a stern test.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40607002@cg07@formal@none@1@S@That test, as President Kennedy forthrightly depicted it in his State of the Union message, will determine "whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure".@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40607003@cg07@formal@none@1@S@It is well then that in this hour both of "national peril" and of "national opportunity" we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40607004@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.@@@@1@46@@oe@1-12-2014
40607005@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40607006@cg07@formal@none@1@S@In certain respects, their task was incomparably greater than ours today, for there was nobody before them to show them the way.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40607007@cg07@formal@none@1@S@As Madison commented to Jefferson in 1789, "We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607008@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Our successors will have an easier task".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40607009@cg07@formal@none@1@S@They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as "the Argonauts" who had lived in "the Heroic Age".@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40607010@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Accordingly, they took special pains to preserve their papers as essential sources for posterity.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40607011@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that "with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved".@@@@1@51@@oe@1-12-2014
40607012@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40607013@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.@@@@1@49@@oe@1-12-2014
40607014@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40607015@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40607016@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40607017@cg07@formal@none@1@S@The young printer's apprentice achieved greatness in a half-dozen different fields, as editor and publisher, scientist, inventor, philanthropist and statesman.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40607018@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.@@@@1@55@@oe@1-12-2014
40607019@cg07@formal@none@1@S@On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40607020@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40607021@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40607022@cg07@formal@none@1@S@During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40607023@cg07@formal@none@1@S@John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40607024@cg07@formal@none@1@S@His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.@@@@1@54@@oe@1-12-2014
40607025@cg07@formal@none@1@S@During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40607026@cg07@formal@none@1@S@The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.@@@@1@64@@oe@1-12-2014
40607027@cg07@formal@none@1@S@If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40607028@cg07@formal@none@1@S@His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607029@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Principal author of "The Federalist", he swung New York over from opposition to the Constitution to ratification almost single-handedly.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607030@cg07@formal@none@1@S@His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40607031@cg07@formal@none@1@S@His bold fiscal program and his broad interpretation of the Constitution stand as durable contributions.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40607032@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607033@cg07@formal@none@1@S@He served as president of the Continental Congress.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40607034@cg07@formal@none@1@S@He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40607035@cg07@formal@none@1@S@As first Chief Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John Marshall.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40607036@cg07@formal@none@1@S@He ended his public career as a two-term governor of New York.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40607037@cg07@formal@none@1@S@These Seven Founders constituted an intellectual and social elite, the most respectable and disinterested leadership any revolution ever confessed.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607038@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay; in others by business and professional acumen, as with Franklin and Adams, or, in Hamilton's case, by an influential marriage.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40607039@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Unlike so many of the power-starved intellectuals in underdeveloped nations of our own day, they commanded both prestige and influence before the Revolution started.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40607040@cg07@formal@none@1@S@As different physically as the tall, angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams, the seven were striking individualists.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607041@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Ardent, opinionated, even obstinate, they were amazingly articulate, wrote their own copy, and were masters of phrasemaking.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40607042@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Capable of enduring friendships, they were also stout controversialists, who could write with a drop of vitriol on their pens.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40607043@cg07@formal@none@1@S@John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as "a certain great fortune and piddling genius".@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40607044@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of "all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity".@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40607045@cg07@formal@none@1@S@And Hamilton, who felt it "a religious duty" to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40607046@cg07@formal@none@1@S@The Seven Founders were completely dedicated to the public service.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40607047@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Madison once remarked: "My life has been so much a public one", a comment which fits the careers of the other six.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40607048@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Franklin retired from editing and publishing at the age of 42, and for the next forty-two years devoted himself to public, scientific, and philanthropic interests.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40607049@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607050@cg07@formal@none@1@S@He served as Commander in Chief during the Revolution without compensation.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40607051@cg07@formal@none@1@S@John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to "pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it".@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40607052@cg07@formal@none@1@S@In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that "no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did" and "for so little profit".@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40607053@cg07@formal@none@1@S@When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40607054@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Hamilton, poorest of the seven, gave up a brilliant law practice to enter Washington's Cabinet.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40607055@cg07@formal@none@1@S@While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40607056@cg07@formal@none@1@S@"If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars", he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40607057@cg07@formal@none@1@S@To support his large family Hamilton went back to the law after each spell of public service.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40607058@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Talleyrand passed his New York law office one night on the way to a party.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40607059@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40607060@cg07@formal@none@1@S@The Frenchman was astonished.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40607061@cg07@formal@none@1@S@"I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family", he reflected.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40607062@cg07@formal@none@1@S@All seven combined ardent devotion to the cause of revolution with a profound respect for legality.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40607063@cg07@formal@none@1@S@John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence "to the tribunal of the world" for support of a revolution justified by "the laws of nature and of nature's God".@@@@1@58@@oe@1-12-2014
40607064@cg07@formal@none@1@S@They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40607065@cg07@formal@none@1@S@This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40607066@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Jay had participated in the decision that exiled his old friend Van Schaack.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40607067@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement: "As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack".@@@@1@62@@oe@1-12-2014
40607068@cg07@formal@none@1@S@The latter in turn assured him that "were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause".@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40607069@cg07@formal@none@1@S@All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40607070@cg07@formal@none@1@S@"We have now a national character to establish", Washington wrote in 1783.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40607071@cg07@formal@none@1@S@"Think continentally", Hamilton counseled the young nation.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40607072@cg07@formal@none@1@S@This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40607073@cg07@formal@none@1@S@His first inaugural address speaks of "my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love".@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607074@cg07@formal@none@1@S@All sought the fruition of that nationalism in a Federal Government with substantial powers.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40607075@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Save Jefferson, all participated in the framing or ratification of the Federal Constitution.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40607076@cg07@formal@none@1@S@They supported it, not as a perfect instrument, but as the best obtainable.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40607077@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Historians have traditionally regarded the great debates of the Seventeen Nineties as polarizing the issues of centralized vs. limited government, with Hamilton and the nationalists supporting the former and Jefferson and Madison upholding the latter position.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40607078@cg07@formal@none@1@S@The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40607079@cg07@formal@none@1@S@In purchasing Louisiana, Jefferson had to adopt Hamilton's broad construction of the Constitution, and so did Madison in advocating the rechartering of Hamilton's bank, which he had so strenuously opposed at its inception, and in adopting a Hamiltonian protective tariff.@@@@1@40@@oe@1-12-2014
40607080@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, the old Jeffersonians were far more atune to the Hamilton-oriented Whigs than they were to the Jacksonian Democrats.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40607081@cg07@formal@none@1@S@When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40607082@cg07@formal@none@1@S@In his political testament, "Advice To My Country", penned just before his death, Madison expressed the wish "that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40607083@cg07@formal@none@1@S@Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Paradise".@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40611001@cg11@formal@none@1@S@As cells coalesced into organisms, they built new "unnatural" and internally controlled environments to cope even more successfully with the entropy-increasing properties of the external world.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611002@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40611003@cg11@formal@none@1@S@One wonders about its applicability to people.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40611004@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Will advances in human sciences help us build social structures and governments which will enable us to cope with people as effectively as the primitive combination of protein and nucleic acid built a structure of molecules which enabled it to adapt to a sea of molecular interaction?@@@@1@47@@oe@1-12-2014
40611005@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The answer is, of course, yes.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40611006@cg11@formal@none@1@S@For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40611007@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40611008@cg11@formal@none@1@S@But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611009@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We have ample light when the sun sets; the temperature of our homes is independent of the seasons; we fly through the air, although gravity pulls us down; the range of our voice ignores distance.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40611010@cg11@formal@none@1@S@At what stage are social sciences then?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40611011@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Is the future of psychology akin to the rich future of physics at the time of Newton?@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40611012@cg11@formal@none@1@S@There is a haunting resemblance between the notion of cause in Copernicus and in Freud.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40611013@cg11@formal@none@1@S@And it is certainly no slight to either of them to compare both their achievements and their impact.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40611014@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Political theoretical understanding, although almost at a standstill during this century, did develop during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and resulted in a flood of inventions which increased the possibility for man to coexist with man.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40611015@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Consitutional government, popular vote, trial by jury, public education, labor unions, cooperatives, communes, socialized ownership, world courts, and the veto power in world councils are but a few examples.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40611016@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40611017@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40611018@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Just as present technology had to await the explanations of physics, so one might expect that social invention will follow growing sociological understanding.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40611019@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40611020@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40611021@cg11@formal@none@1@S@3,@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
40611022@cg11@formal@none@1@S@I want, therefore, to discuss a second and quite different fruit of science, the connection between scientific understanding and fear.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40611023@cg11@formal@none@1@S@There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611024@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Lucretius has remarked: "The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God".@@@@1@40@@oe@1-12-2014
40611025@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps things were even worse then.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40611026@cg11@formal@none@1@S@It is difficult to reconstruct the primeval fears of man.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40611027@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40611028@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We are not now afraid of atomic bombs in the same way that people once feared comets.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40611029@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The bombs are as harmless as an automobile in a garage.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40611030@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may "push the button".@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40611031@cg11@formal@none@1@S@I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40611032@cg11@formal@none@1@S@They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40611033@cg11@formal@none@1@S@They include both individual fears and collective ones.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40611034@cg11@formal@none@1@S@They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40611035@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.@@@@1@47@@oe@1-12-2014
40611036@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
40611037@cg11@formal@none@1@S@To say that science had reduced many such fears merely reiterates the obvious and frequent statement that science eliminated much of magic and superstition.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40611038@cg11@formal@none@1@S@But a somewhat more detailed analysis of this process may be illuminating.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40611039@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The frequently postulated antique worry that the daylight hours might dwindle to complete darkness apparently gave rise to a ritual and celebration which we still recognize.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611040@cg11@formal@none@1@S@It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter solstice.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40611041@cg11@formal@none@1@S@This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.@@@@1@44@@oe@1-12-2014
40611042@cg11@formal@none@1@S@This understanding provides a very simple example of the fact that one can eliminate fear without instituting any controls.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40611043@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40611044@cg11@formal@none@1@S@There is still the remote possibility of planetoid collision.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40611045@cg11@formal@none@1@S@A meteor could fall on San Francisco.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40611046@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Solar activities could presumably bring long periods of flood or drought.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40611047@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40611048@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Yet we no longer feel uneasy.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40611049@cg11@formal@none@1@S@This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40611050@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We, in our country, think of war as an external threat which, if it occurs, will not be primarily of our own doing.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40611051@cg11@formal@none@1@S@And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40611052@cg11@formal@none@1@S@What elements of our behavior are decisive?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40611053@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Our weapons production, our world prestige, our ideas of democracy, our actions of trust or stubbornness or secrecy or espionage?@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40611054@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
40611055@cg11@formal@none@1@S@I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40611056@cg11@formal@none@1@S@If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40611057@cg11@formal@none@1@S@With the group of boys it is different.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40611058@cg11@formal@none@1@S@He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40611059@cg11@formal@none@1@S@When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40611060@cg11@formal@none@1@S@I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.@@@@1@47@@oe@1-12-2014
40611061@cg11@formal@none@1@S@I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40611062@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40611063@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611064@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40611065@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as "trust", "cheat", and "get tough".@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40611066@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We talk about national character in the same way that Copernicus talked of the compulsions of celestial bodies to move in circles.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40611067@cg11@formal@none@1@S@We perform elaborate international exhortations and ceremonies with virtually no understanding of social cause and effect.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40611068@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Small wonder, then, that we fear.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40611069@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The achievements which dispelled our fears of the cosmos took place three centuries ago.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40611070@cg11@formal@none@1@S@What additional roles has the scientific understanding of the 19th and 20th centuries played?@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40611071@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In the physical sciences, these achievements concern electricity, chemistry, and atomic physics.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40611072@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611073@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40611074@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In addition, our way of dealing directly with natural phenomena has also changed.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40611075@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40611076@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Apparently the population as a whole eventually acquires enough confidence in the explanations of the scientists to modify its procedures and its fears.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40611077@cg11@formal@none@1@S@How and why this process occurs would provide an interesting separate subject for study.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40611078@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In some areas, the progress is slower than in others.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40611079@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40611080@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In child care, the opposite extreme prevails; procedures change rapidly and parental confidence probably exceeds anything warranted by established psychological theory.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40611081@cg11@formal@none@1@S@There are many domains in which understanding has brought about widespread and quite appropriate reduction in ritual and fear.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40611082@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Much of the former extreme uneasiness associated with visions and hallucinations and with death has disappeared.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40611083@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40611084@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40611085@cg11@formal@none@1@S@In fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40611086@cg11@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40611087@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The situation with regard to our attitude and "control" of disease contains close analogies to problems confronting us with respect to people.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40611088@cg11@formal@none@1@S@The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40621001@cg21@formal@none@1@S@American democratic thought, pointed up the relation between the Protestant movement in this country and the development of a social religion, which he called the American Democratic Faith.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40621002@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Those familiar with his work will remember that he placed the incipience of the democratic faith at around 1850.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40621003@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And he describes it as a balanced polarity between the notions of the free individual and what he called the fundamental law.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40621004@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40621005@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40621006@cg21@formal@none@1@S@He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40621007@cg21@formal@none@1@S@He terms this early enthusiasm "Romantic Christianity" and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that "the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism".@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40621008@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40621009@cg21@formal@none@1@S@He says: "beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy".@@@@1@54@@oe@1-12-2014
40621010@cg21@formal@none@1@S@He specifies, "in the middle period of the Nineteenth Century it was colored by Christian supernaturalism, in the Twentieth Century it was affected by naturalism.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40621011@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But in every period it has been humanism". And let me add, utopianism, also.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40621012@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Some fourteen or fifteen years ago, in an essay I called The Leader Follows -- Where? I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40621013@cg21@formal@none@1@S@It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental law in the common man.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40621014@cg21@formal@none@1@S@That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40621015@cg21@formal@none@1@S@It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40621016@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And with Progressivism the Religion of Humanity was replacing what Gabriel called Christian supernaturalism.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40621017@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40621018@cg21@formal@none@1@S@During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow (Wilson) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.@@@@1@74@@oe@1-12-2014
40621019@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The socialism implicit in the slogan of the Roosevelt Revolution, freedom from want and fear, seems a far cry from the individualism of the First Amendment to the Constitution, or of the Jacksonian frontier.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40621020@cg21@formal@none@1@S@What had happened to the common man?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40621021@cg21@formal@none@1@S@French Egalitarianism had had only nominal influence in this country before the days of Popularism.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40621022@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40621023@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40621024@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920s, the dislocations of the Depression, the common ethos of Materialism everywhere, all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People.@@@@1@44@@oe@1-12-2014
40621025@cg21@formal@none@1@S@However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40621026@cg21@formal@none@1@S@That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40621027@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40621028@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The importance of Rousseau's twist has not always been clear to us, however.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40621029@cg21@formal@none@1@S@This notion of the General Will gave rise to the Commune of Paris in the Revolution and later brought Napoleon to dictatorship.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40621030@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.@@@@1@54@@oe@1-12-2014
40621031@cg21@formal@none@1@S@This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40621032@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The long road that had taken liberals in this country into the social religion of democracy, into a worship of man, led logically to the Marxist dream of a classless society under a Socialist State.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40621033@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And the ussr existed as the revolutionary experiment in radical socialism, the ultimate exemplar.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40621034@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40621035@cg21@formal@none@1@S@We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.@@@@1@47@@oe@1-12-2014
40621036@cg21@formal@none@1@S@We of the liberal-led world got all set for peace and rehabilitation.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40621037@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest (and some had thought noblest) ally.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40621038@cg21@formal@none@1@S@During the next five years the leaders of the Fair Deal reluctantly backed down from the optimistic expectations of the New Deal.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40621039@cg21@formal@none@1@S@During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.@@@@1@55@@oe@1-12-2014
40621040@cg21@formal@none@1@S@In 1952, it will be remembered, the G.O.P. without positive program campaigned on the popular disillusionment with liberal leadership and won overwhelmingly.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40621041@cg21@formal@none@1@S@All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40621042@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40621043@cg21@formal@none@1@S@A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40621044@cg21@formal@none@1@S@He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40621045@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The show was colorful, indeed, exuberant, but the press for all its assiduity could detect no note of a fateful rendezvous with destiny.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40621046@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40621047@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: "in essence the drama of his (Eisenhower's) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism".@@@@1@49@@oe@1-12-2014
40621048@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I will assume that we are all aware of the continuing struggle, with its limited and precarious success, toward conservatism.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40621049@cg21@formal@none@1@S@It has moved on various levels, it has been clamorous and confused.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40621050@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40621051@cg21@formal@none@1@S@For it was neglected, not to say nascent, when the struggle began.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40621052@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40621053@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I would agree with this view.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40621054@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But I'm not here to define conservatism.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40621055@cg21@formal@none@1@S@What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40621056@cg21@formal@none@1@S@One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40621057@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Though, to be sure, we gave Kennedy no very positive approval in the margin of his preferment.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40621058@cg21@formal@none@1@S@This is, however, symptomatic of our national malaise.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40621059@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But before I try to diagnose it, I would offer other evidence.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40621060@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40621061@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40621062@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40621063@cg21@formal@none@1@S@What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40621064@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I suppose we might classify Billy Graham as an old liberal.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40621065@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40621066@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Its refrain was: "let us return to the individualistic democracy of our forefathers for our salvation".@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40621067@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Adlai Stevenson expressed some reservations about this return.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40621068@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Others invoked technology and common sense.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40621069@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Only Walter Lippman envisioned the possibility of our having "outlived most of what we used to regard as the program of our national purposes".@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40621070@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40621071@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40621072@cg21@formal@none@1@S@They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40621073@cg21@formal@none@1@S@The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40621074@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: "the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity".@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40621075@cg21@formal@none@1@S@This group is secularist and their program tends to be technological.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40621076@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40621077@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And let me add Murray's new book as another symptom of it, particularly so in view of the attention Time magazine gave it when it came out recently.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40621078@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40621079@cg21@formal@none@1@S@I will reserve discussion of it for a moment, however, to return to President Kennedy.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40621080@cg21@formal@none@1@S@As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40621081@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Does that not suggest to you an uncertain and uneasy, not to say confused, state of the public mind?@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40621082@cg21@formal@none@1@S@What is the common man's complaint?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40621083@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Let's take a panoramic look back over the course we have come.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40621084@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Has not that way been lit always by the lamp of liberalism up until the turning back under Eisenhower?@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40621085@cg21@formal@none@1@S@And the basic character of that liberalism has been spiritual rather than economic.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40621086@cg21@formal@none@1@S@Ralph Gabriel gave it the name of Protestant philosophy of Progress.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40621087@cg21@formal@none@1@S@But there's a subjective side to that utopian outlook.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40625001@cg25@formal@none@1@S@For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40625002@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40625003@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Rather it is rooted in a difference of response to the threat of social disintegration.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625004@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The division is not between those who wish to preserve what they have and those who want change.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40625005@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40625006@cg25@formal@none@1@S@These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625007@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The civilizational crisis, the third type of change raises the question "what are we to do"? On the most primitive level.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40625008@cg25@formal@none@1@S@For the answer cannot be derived from any socially cohesive element in the disrupting community.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625009@cg25@formal@none@1@S@There is no socially existential answer to the question.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40625010@cg25@formal@none@1@S@For the truth formerly experienced by the community no longer has existential status in the community, nor does any answer elaborated by philosophers or theoriticians.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40625011@cg25@formal@none@1@S@In this phase of change, no idea has social acceptance and so none has ontological status in the community.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40625012@cg25@formal@none@1@S@An interregnum ensues in which not men but ideas compete for existence.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625013@cg25@formal@none@1@S@If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
40625014@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The first two types of change occur within the inward and immanent structure of the society.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625015@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The first involves a simple shift of interests in the society.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40625016@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The second involves something deeper, but its characteristic form focuses on a shift in policy for the community, not in the truth on which the community rests.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40625017@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625018@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The third type, however, wrenches attention from the life of action and interests in the community and focuses it on the ground of being on which the community depends for its existence.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40625019@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Voegelin has analyzed this experience in the case of the stable, healthy community.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40625020@cg25@formal@none@1@S@There the community, faced with the need to formulate policy on the level of absolute justice, can find the answer to its problem in the absolute truth which it holds as partially experienced.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40625021@cg25@formal@none@1@S@This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40625022@cg25@formal@none@1@S@It has lost its ground of being and floats in a mist of appearances.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40625023@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Relativism and equality are its characteristic diseases.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40625024@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40625025@cg25@formal@none@1@S@For paradigmatic history "breaks" rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40625026@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The liberal-conservative split, to define it further, derives from a basic difference concerning the existential status of standard sought and about the spiritual experience that leads to its identification.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40625027@cg25@formal@none@1@S@When disruptive change has penetrated to the third level of social order, the process of disruption rapidly reaches a point of no return.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40625028@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Indeed, it is probable that this point is reached the moment the third level of change begins.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625029@cg25@formal@none@1@S@At that point we reach the "closed" historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40625030@cg25@formal@none@1@S@At that point men become aware of the mystery of history called variously "fate", or "destiny", or "providence", and feel themselves caught helplessly in the writhing of a disrupted society.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40625031@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The reasons for this experience are rooted in the metaphysical characteristics of such a change.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625032@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Of all forms of being, society, or community, has the greatest element of determinability.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40625033@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its "matter", tradition, the "form" of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40625034@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The ontological status of society thus is constituted by the psychological status of society's members.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625035@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The content of that psychological status determines, ultimately, the content of civilization.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625036@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Those social, civilizational factors not rooted in the human spirit of the group, ultimately cease to exist.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625037@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Civilization itself -- tradition -- falls out of existence when the human spirit itself becomes confused.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625038@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Civilization is what man has made of himself.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40625039@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Its massive contours are rooted in the simple need of man, since he is always incomplete, to complete himself.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40625040@cg25@formal@none@1@S@It is not enough for man to be an ontological esse.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40625041@cg25@formal@none@1@S@He needs existential completion, he needs, that is, to move in the direction of completion.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625042@cg25@formal@none@1@S@And the direction of that movement is determined by his perception of the truth about himself.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625043@cg25@formal@none@1@S@He must, consequently, exist as a self-perceived substantive, developing agent, or he does not exist as man.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625044@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can "fall out of existence".@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40625045@cg25@formal@none@1@S@This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a "locus of intelligible necessities".@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40625046@cg25@formal@none@1@S@An existentialist is a man who perceives himself only as "esse", as existence without substance.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625047@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40625048@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul, a change in which man continues as an objective ontological existent, but no longer as a man.@@@@1@46@@oe@1-12-2014
40625049@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Further, change is a form of motion, it occurs as the act of a being in potency insofar as it is in potency and has not yet reached the terminus of the change.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40625050@cg25@formal@none@1@S@With regard to the change we are examining, the question is, at what point does the change become irreversible?@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40625051@cg25@formal@none@1@S@A number of considerations suggest that this occurs early in the process.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625052@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Change involves the displacement of form.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40625053@cg25@formal@none@1@S@This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40625054@cg25@formal@none@1@S@If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40625055@cg25@formal@none@1@S@In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40625056@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Now in the mere fact of the beginning of such displacement we have prima-facie evidence of the ontological weakness of the fading form.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40625057@cg25@formal@none@1@S@And when we consider the tenuous hold tradition has on existence, any weakening of that hold constitutes a crisis of existence.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40625058@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The retention of a tradition confronted with such a crisis necessitates the introduction of new spiritual forces into the situation.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40625059@cg25@formal@none@1@S@However, the crisis occurs precisely as a weakening of spiritual forces.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40625060@cg25@formal@none@1@S@It would seem, therefore, that in a civilizational crisis man cannot save himself.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40625061@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The emergence of the crisis itself would seem to constitute a warranty for the victory of disorder.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625062@cg25@formal@none@1@S@And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625063@cg25@formal@none@1@S@As a further characterization of the liberal conservative split we may observe that it involves differences in the formula for escaping inevitabilities in history.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40625064@cg25@formal@none@1@S@These differences, in turn, derive from prior differences concerning the friendly or hostile character of change.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625065@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Unanalyzed responses anxiety and deep insecurity are the characteristic responses evoked by the crisis in tradition.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625066@cg25@formal@none@1@S@To experience them, it is not necessary for a people to be actively aware of what is happening to it.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40625067@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The process of erosion need only undermine the tradition and a series of consequences begin unfolding within the individual, while in institutions a quiet but deep transformation of processes occurs.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40625068@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Within the individual the reaction has been called various names, all, however, pointing to the same basic experience.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40625069@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Weil identifies it as being "rootless", Guardini as being "placeless", Riesman as being "lonely".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40625070@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Others call it "alienation", and mean by that no simple economic experience (as Marx does) but a deep spiritual sense of dislocation.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40625071@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Within institutions there is a marked decline of the process of persuasion and the substitution of a force-fear process which masquerades as the earlier one of persuasion.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40625072@cg25@formal@none@1@S@We note the use of rhetoric as a weapon, the manipulation of the masses by propaganda, the "mobilization" of effort and resources.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40625073@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Within this context of spontaneous and unanalyzed responses to the experience of civilizational crisis, two basic organizations of response are observable: reaction and ideological progressivism.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40625074@cg25@formal@none@1@S@These responses are explicable in terms of characteristics inherent in the crisis.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625075@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Both are predictably destined to fail.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40625076@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The response of reaction is dominated by a concern for what is vanishing.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40625077@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Its essence lies in its attempt to recover previous order through the repression of disruptive forces.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625078@cg25@formal@none@1@S@To this end political authority is called upon to exercise its negative and coercive powers.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625079@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40625080@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Seemingly, order is perceived as a kind of subsistent entity now covered by adventitious accretions.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40625081@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was always there.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625082@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625083@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40625084@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40625085@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625086@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40625087@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625088@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Since civilizational change is the most difficult to perceive and analyze, it seldom is given adequate attention.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625089@cg25@formal@none@1@S@And the anxiety it generates is misinterpreted as anxiety over private interest and threatened social status.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625090@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40625091@cg25@formal@none@1@S@But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40625092@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The reactionary misses the point that tradition exists ontologically only in the form of psychological-intellectual relations.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625093@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625094@cg25@formal@none@1@S@In its defensive formulations, the theory will attack conscious change on the grounds of the independent existence of the community.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40625095@cg25@formal@none@1@S@In its dynamic form, it visualizes the community as the embodiment of an ontological force -- the race, for instance, which unfolds in history.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40625096@cg25@formal@none@1@S@In both cases the individual tends to be treated as an instrument of the organic reality.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40625097@cg25@formal@none@1@S@When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40625098@cg25@formal@none@1@S@Reaction is rooted in a perception of tradition as a whole.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40625099@cg25@formal@none@1@S@It is a total situation that is defended: the "good old days".@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40625100@cg25@formal@none@1@S@There is no selectivity; even the questionable features of the past are defended.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40625101@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
40625102@cg25@formal@none@1@S@The reactionary is confused about the existential status of a decaying tradition, but he does perceive the unity tradition had when it was healthy.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40632001@cg32@formal@none@1@S@This time he was making no mistake.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40632002@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Olgivanna -- in her country the nickname was a respectful form of address -- was not only attractive but shrewd, durable, sensible, and smart.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40632003@cg32@formal@none@1@S@No wonder Wright was enchanted -- no two better suited people ever met.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40632004@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side; but the years that immediately followed were to be extraordinarily trying, both for Wright and his Montenegrin lady.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40632005@cg32@formal@none@1@S@It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40632006@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Even so, many of the things that happened to Wright and Olgivanna seem inordinately severe.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40632007@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40632008@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Reporters began to trail Miriam everywhere, and to encourage her to make appalling statements about Wright and his doings.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40632009@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Flocks of writs, attachments, and unpleasant legal papers of every sort began to fly through the air.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40632010@cg32@formal@none@1@S@The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40632011@cg32@formal@none@1@S@At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40632012@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Cloud made an interesting statement in parting from his client: "I wanted to be a lawyer, and Mrs. Wright wanted me to be an avenging angel.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40632013@cg32@formal@none@1@S@So I got out.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40632014@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Mrs. Wright is without funds.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
40632015@cg32@formal@none@1@S@The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40632016@cg32@formal@none@1@S@But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40632017@cg32@formal@none@1@S@I am an attorney, not an instrument of vengeance".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40632018@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40632019@cg32@formal@none@1@S@There were three years of this strange warfare; and during the unhappy time, Miriam often would charge that Wright and Olgivanna were misdemeanants against the public order of Wisconsin.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40632020@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Yet somehow, when officers were prodded into visiting Taliesin to execute the warrants, they would find neither Wright nor Olgivanna at home.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40632021@cg32@formal@none@1@S@This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40632022@cg32@formal@none@1@S@The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40632023@cg32@formal@none@1@S@To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40632024@cg32@formal@none@1@S@One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40632025@cg32@formal@none@1@S@At this time Miriam Noel appeared, urging on Constable Henry Pengally, whose name showed him to be a descendant of the Welsh settlers in the neighborhood.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40632026@cg32@formal@none@1@S@A troop of reporters brought up the rear.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40632027@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40632028@cg32@formal@none@1@S@He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40632029@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam now ordered Pengally to break down the gate, but he said he really couldn't go that far.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40632030@cg32@formal@none@1@S@At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.@@@@1@43@@oe@1-12-2014
40632031@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam Noel Wright said, "Here I am at my own home, locked out so I must stand in the road"!@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40632032@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Then she rounded on Weston and cried, "You always did Wright's dirty work!@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40632033@cg32@formal@none@1@S@When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40632034@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"Madame Noel, I think you had better go", said Mrs. Cupply.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40632035@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"And I think you had better leave", replied Miriam.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40632036@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Turning to the reporters, she asked, "Did you hear her?@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40632037@cg32@formal@none@1@S@'I think you had better leave'!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40632038@cg32@formal@none@1@S@And this is my own home".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40632039@cg32@formal@none@1@S@In the silence that followed, Miriam walked close to Mrs. Cupply, who drew back a step on her side of the gate.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40632040@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, "You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40632041@cg32@formal@none@1@S@You are even uglier than Mr. Wright".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40632042@cg32@formal@none@1@S@The animosity expressed by such a scene had the penetrating quality of a natural force; and it gave Miriam Noel a fund of energy like that of a person inspired to complete some great and universal work of art.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40632043@cg32@formal@none@1@S@As if to make certain that Wright would be unable to pay any settlement at all, Miriam wrote to prospective clients denouncing him; she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.@@@@1@50@@oe@1-12-2014
40632044@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, "I will never leave Mr. Wright".@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40632045@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Under this kind of pressure, it is not surprising that Wright would make sweeping statements to the newspapers.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40632046@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
40632047@cg32@formal@none@1@S@First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40632048@cg32@formal@none@1@S@But surely Michigan Avenue was handsome?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40632049@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"That isn't a boulevard, it's a racetrack"! Cried Wright, showing that automobiles were considered to be a danger as early as the 1920's.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40632050@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"This is a horrible way to live", Wright went on.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40632051@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"You are being strangled by traffic".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40632052@cg32@formal@none@1@S@He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40632053@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"Take a gigantic knife and sweep it over the Loop", Wright said.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40632054@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"Cut off every building at the seventh floor.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40632055@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Spread everything out.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
40632056@cg32@formal@none@1@S@You don't need concentration.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40632057@cg32@formal@none@1@S@If you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40632058@cg32@formal@none@1@S@You'll have trees again.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
40632059@cg32@formal@none@1@S@You'll have some joy in the life of this city.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40632060@cg32@formal@none@1@S@After all, that's the job of the architect -- to give the world a little joy".@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40632061@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40632062@cg32@formal@none@1@S@The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40632063@cg32@formal@none@1@S@A storm did take place that night, and fortunately enough, it included a cloudburst that helped put out the flames.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40632064@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Later accounts blamed defective wiring for starting the fire; at any rate, heat grew so intense in the main part of the house that it melted the window panes, and fused the K'ang-si pottery to cinders.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40632065@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.@@@@1@40@@oe@1-12-2014
40632066@cg32@formal@none@1@S@In spite of the disaster, Wright completed during this period plans for the Lake Tahoe resort, in which he suggested the shapes of American Indian tepees -- a project of great and appropriate charm, that came to nothing.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
40632067@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Amid a shortage of profitable work, the memory of Albert Johnson's $20,000 stood out in lonely grandeur -- the money had quickly melted away.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40632068@cg32@formal@none@1@S@A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time; and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power; how can he be financed so that he can find the work he ought to do?@@@@1@46@@oe@1-12-2014
40632069@cg32@formal@none@1@S@While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40632070@cg32@formal@none@1@S@As he made plans for the new Taliesin, Wright also got on paper his conception of a cathedral of steel and glass to house a congregation of all faiths, and the idea for a planetarium with a sloping ramp.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
40632071@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.@@@@1@43@@oe@1-12-2014
40632072@cg32@formal@none@1@S@And now there was some question as to his continued residence there.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40632073@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Billy Koch, who had once worked for Wright as a chauffeur, gave a deposition for Miriam's use that he had seen Olgivanna living at Taliesin.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40632074@cg32@formal@none@1@S@This might put Wright in such a bad light before a court that Miriam would be awarded Taliesin; nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not "compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills", he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.@@@@1@68@@oe@1-12-2014
40632075@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam sniffed at this, and complained that Wright had said unkind things about her to reporters.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40632076@cg32@formal@none@1@S@His reply was, "Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned".@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40632077@cg32@formal@none@1@S@What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept "when she tires of publicity".@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40632078@cg32@formal@none@1@S@From her California headquarters, Miriam fired back, "I shall never divorce Mr. Wright, to permit him to marry Olga Milanoff".@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40632079@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
40632080@cg32@formal@none@1@S@The Bank of Wisconsin sent a representative to the judge's chambers in Madison to give information on Wright's ability to meet the terms.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40632081@cg32@formal@none@1@S@He said that the architect might reasonably be expected to carry his financial burdens if all harrassment could be brought to an end, and that the bank would accept a mortgage on Taliesin to help bring this about.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
40632082@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Miriam said that she must be assured that "that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along".@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40632083@cg32@formal@none@1@S@This exhausted Wright's patience, and in consequence he talked freely to reporters in a Madison hotel suite.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40632084@cg32@formal@none@1@S@"Volstead laws, speed laws, divorce laws", he said, "as they now stand, demoralize the individual, make liars and law breakers of us in one way or another, and tend to make our experiment in democracy absurd.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40632085@cg32@formal@none@1@S@If Mrs. Wright doesn't accept the terms in the morning, I'll go either to Tokyo or to Holland, to do what I can.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
40632086@cg32@formal@none@1@S@I realize, in taking this stand, just what it means to me and mine".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40632087@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, "It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me".@@@@1@49@@oe@1-12-2014
40632088@cg32@formal@none@1@S@Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce; but Wright stayed in the United States.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40632089@cg32@formal@none@1@S@His mentioning of Japan and Holland had been merely the expression of wishful thinking.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
40632090@cg32@formal@none@1@S@No matter what troubles might betide him, this most American of artists knew in his heart he could not function properly outside his native land.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40632091@cg32@formal@none@1@S@In a few weeks Miriam made another sortie at Taliesin, but was repulsed at the locked and guarded gates.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40635001@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The United States is always ready to participate with the Soviet Union in serious discussion of these or any other subjects that may lead to peace with justice.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40635002@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Certainly it is not necessary to repeat that the United States has no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of any nation; by the same token, we reject any Soviet attempt to impose its system on us or other peoples by force or subversion.@@@@1@45@@oe@1-12-2014
40635003@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40635004@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Not for a moment do we forget that our own fate is firmly fastened to that of these countries; we will not act in any way which would jeopardize our solemn commitments to them.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40635005@cg35@formal@none@1@S@We and our friends are, of course, concerned with self-defense.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
40635006@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40635007@cg35@formal@none@1@S@These peoples, desperately hoping to lift themselves to decent levels of living must not, by our neglect, be forced to seek help from, and finally become virtual satellites of, those who proclaim their hostility to freedom.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40635008@cg35@formal@none@1@S@But they must have technical and investment assistance.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40635009@cg35@formal@none@1@S@This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40635010@cg35@formal@none@1@S@In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40635011@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The international economy of 1960 is markedly different from that of the early postwar years.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40635012@cg35@formal@none@1@S@No longer is the United States the only major industrial country capable of providing substantial amounts of the resources so urgently needed in the newly developed countries.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40635013@cg35@formal@none@1@S@To remain secure and prosperous themselves, wealthy nations must extend the kind of co-operation to the less fortunate members that will inspire hope, confidence, and progress.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40635014@cg35@formal@none@1@S@A rich nation can for a time, without noticeable damage to itself, pursue a course of self-indulgence, making its single goal the material ease and comfort of its own citizens -- thus repudiating its own spiritual and material stake in a peaceful and prosperous society of nations.@@@@1@47@@oe@1-12-2014
40635015@cg35@formal@none@1@S@But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and spiritual softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to economic and political disaster.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40635016@cg35@formal@none@1@S@America did not become great through softness and self-indulgence.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40635017@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Her miraculous progress in material achievements flows from other qualities far more worthy and substantial: adherence to principles and methods consonant with our religious philosophy; a satisfaction in hard work; the readiness to sacrifice for worthwhile causes; the courage to meet every challenge; the intellectual honesty and capacity to recognize the true path of her own best interests.@@@@1@58@@oe@1-12-2014
40635018@cg35@formal@none@1@S@To us and to every nation of the Free World, rich or poor, these qualities are necessary today as never before if we are to march together to greater security, prosperity and peace.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40635019@cg35@formal@none@1@S@I believe that the industrial countries are ready to participate actively in supplementing the efforts of the developing nations to achieve progress.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40635020@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The immediate need for this kind of co-operation is underscored by the strain in this nation's international balance of payments.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40635021@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
40635022@cg35@formal@none@1@S@In 1959 our deficit in balance of payments approached four billion dollars.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40635023@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Continuing deficits of anything like this magnitude would, over time, impair our own economic growth and check the forward progress of the Free World.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40635024@cg35@formal@none@1@S@We must meet this situation by promoting a rising volume of exports and world trade.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40635025@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Further, we must induce all industrialized nations of the Free World to work together to help lift the scourge of poverty from less fortunate.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40635026@cg35@formal@none@1@S@This co-operation in this matter will provide both for the necessary sharing of this burden and in bringing about still further increases in mutually profitable trade.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40635027@cg35@formal@none@1@S@New Nations, and others struggling with the problems of development, will progress only -- regardless of any outside help -- if they demonstrate faith in their own destiny and use their own resources to fulfill it.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
40635028@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, progress in a national transformation can be only gradually earned; there is no easy and quick way to follow from the oxcart to the jet plane.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40635029@cg35@formal@none@1@S@But, just as we drew on Europe for assistance in our earlier years, so now do these new and emerging nations that do have this faith and determination deserve help.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40635030@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Respecting their need, one of the major focal points of our concern is the South-Asian region.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40635031@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
40635032@cg35@formal@none@1@S@I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
40635033@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Through the World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well as through individual action by every nation in position to help, we must squarely face this titanic challenge.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
40635034@cg35@formal@none@1@S@I shall continue to urge the American people, in the interests of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make sure that their own part of this great project be amply and cheerfully supported.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
40635035@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Free world decisions in this matter may spell the difference between world disaster and world progress in freedom.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40635036@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40635037@cg35@formal@none@1@S@A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40635038@cg35@formal@none@1@S@During the past year I have discussed this matter with the leaders of several Western nations.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40635039@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Because of its wealth of experience, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation could help with the initial studies needed.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
40635040@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40635041@cg35@formal@none@1@S@By extending this help, we hope to make possible the enthusiastic enrollment of these nations under freedom's banner.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40635042@cg35@formal@none@1@S@No more startling contrast to a system of sullen satellites could be imagined.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40635043@cg35@formal@none@1@S@If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.@@@@1@44@@oe@1-12-2014
40635044@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Otherwise, the outlook could be dark indeed.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40635045@cg35@formal@none@1@S@We face, indeed, what may be a turning point in history, and we must act decisively and wisely.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40635046@cg35@formal@none@1@S@As a nation we can successfully pursue these objectives only from a position of broadly based strength.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40635047@cg35@formal@none@1@S@No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40635048@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Until tangible and mutually enforceable arms reduction measures are worked out we will not weaken the means of defending our institutions.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40635049@cg35@formal@none@1@S@America possesses an enormous defense power.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
40635050@cg35@formal@none@1@S@It is my studied conviction that no nation will ever risk general war against us unless we should become so foolish as to neglect the defense forces we now so powerfully support.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
40635051@cg35@formal@none@1@S@It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
40635052@cg35@formal@none@1@S@But I once again assure all peoples and all nations that the United States, except in defense, will never turn loose this destructive power.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40635053@cg35@formal@none@1@S@During the past year, our long-range striking power, unmatched today in manned bombers, has taken on new strength as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile has entered the operational inventory.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
40635054@cg35@formal@none@1@S@In fourteen recent test launchings, at ranges of five thousand miles, Atlas has been striking on an average within two miles of the target.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40635055@cg35@formal@none@1@S@This is less than the length of a jet runway -- well within the circle of destruction.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40635056@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40635057@cg35@formal@none@1@S@From all reports so far received, its performance conformed to the high standards I have just described.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
40635058@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40635059@cg35@formal@none@1@S@This year, moreover, growing numbers of nuclear powered submarines will enter our active forces, some to be armed with Polaris missiles.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40635060@cg35@formal@none@1@S@These remarkable ships and weapons, ranging the oceans, will be capable of accurate fire on targets virtually anywhere on earth.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
40635061@cg35@formal@none@1@S@To meet situations of less than general nuclear war, we continue to maintain our carrier forces, our many service units abroad, our always ready Army strategic forces and Marine Corps divisions, and the civilian components.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
40635062@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The continuing modernization of these forces is a costly but necessary process.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
40635063@cg35@formal@none@1@S@It is scheduled to go forward at a rate which will steadily add to our strength.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
40635064@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
40635065@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Moreover, I have directed that steps be taken to program on a longer range basis our military assistance to these allies.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
40635066@cg35@formal@none@1@S@This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40635067@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40635068@cg35@formal@none@1@S@We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
40635069@cg35@formal@none@1@S@These discoveries are of present interest chiefly to the scientific community; but they are important foundation stones for more extensive exploration of outer space for the ultimate benefit of all mankind.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40635070@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
40635071@cg35@formal@none@1@S@I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
40635072@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
40635073@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Fourth, in the meantime, it is necessary to remember that we have only begun to probe the environment immediately surrounding the earth.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
40635074@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Using launch systems presently available, we are developing satellites to scout the world's weather; satellite relay stations to facilitate and extend communications over the globe; for navigation aids to give accurate bearings to ships and aircraft; and for perfecting instruments to collect and transmit the data we seek.@@@@1@48@@oe@1-12-2014
40635075@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Fifth, we have just completed a year's experience with our new space law.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
40635076@cg35@formal@none@1@S@I believe it deficient in certain particulars.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
40635077@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Suggested improvements will be submitted to the Congress shortly.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40635078@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The accomplishment of the many tasks I have alluded to requires the continuous strengthening of the spiritual, intellectual, and economic sinews of American life.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
40635079@cg35@formal@none@1@S@The steady purpose of our society is to assure justice, before God, for every individual.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
40635080@cg35@formal@none@1@S@We must be ever alert that freedom does not wither through the careless amassing of restrictive controls or the lack of courage to deal boldly with the issues of the day.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40635081@cg35@formal@none@1@S@A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
40635082@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Today our surging strength is apparent to everyone.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
40635083@cg35@formal@none@1@S@1960 promises to be the most prosperous year in our history.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
40635084@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Yet we continue to be afflicted by nagging disorders.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
40635085@cg35@formal@none@1@S@Among current problems that require solutions, participated in by citizens as well as government, are: the need to protect the public interest in situations of prolonged labor-management stalemate; the persistent refusal to come to grips with a critical problem in one sector of American agriculture; the continuing threat of inflation, together with the persisting tendency toward fiscal irresponsibility; in certain instances the denial to some of our citizens of equal protection of the law.@@@@1@74@@oe@1-12-2014
41011001@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Standing in the shelter of the tent -- a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped, no longer drumming -- Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beer barrels.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
41011002@ck11@formal@none@1@S@There was, of course, no real need to rearrange everything.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011003@ck11@formal@none@1@S@A quarter inch this way or that for the hardbake, or the toffee, or the barley sugar, or the sardines, or the bitters, or the condensed milk, or the stationery, or the needles -- what could it mean?@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
41011004@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41011005@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He recognized the gesture.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011006@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He knew its meaning.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011007@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He had seen a dry, old, yellowing hand reach out, with that painful solicitude, to touch, to rearrange, to shift aimlessly, some object worth a pfennig.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41011008@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Back in Bavaria he had seen that gesture, and at that sight his heart had always died within him.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011009@ck11@formal@none@1@S@On such occasions he had not had the courage to look at the face above the hand, whatever face it might be.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41011010@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Now the face was his own.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41011011@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He wondered what expression, as he made that gesture, was on his face.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011012@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He wondered if it wore the old anxiety, or the old, taut stoicism.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011013@ck11@formal@none@1@S@But there was no need, he remembered, for his hand to reach out, for his face to show concern or stoicism.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41011014@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It was nothing to him if rain fell and nobody came.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41011015@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Then why was he assuming the role -- the gesture and the suffering?@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011016@ck11@formal@none@1@S@What was he expiating?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011017@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Or was he now taking the role -- the gesture and the suffering -- because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid, befogged loneliness of this land.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41011018@ck11@formal@none@1@S@This was Virginia.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41011019@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He looked out of the tent at the company street.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011020@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The rain dripped on the freezing loblolly of the street.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011021@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Beyond that misty gray of the rain, he saw the stretching hutment, low diminutive log cabins, chinked with mud, with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through, with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes, or fence rails, with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud.@@@@1@53@@oe@1-12-2014
41011022@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The chimney of the hut across from him was surmounted by a beef barrel with ends knocked out.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41011023@ck11@formal@none@1@S@In this heavy air, however, that device did not seem to help.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41011024@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other, and hung as sadly in the drizzle, creeping back down along the sopping canvas of the roof.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
41011025@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Over the door was a board with large, inept lettering: home sweet home.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011026@ck11@formal@none@1@S@This was the hut of Simms Purdew, the hero.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011027@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The men were huddled in those lairs.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41011028@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam knew the names of some.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41011029@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He knew the faces of all, hairy or shaven, old or young, fat or thin, suffering or hardened, sad or gay, good or bad.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41011030@ck11@formal@none@1@S@When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41011031@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He had had the need to understand what life lurked behind the mask of flesh, behind the oath, the banter, the sadness.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41011032@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.@@@@1@56@@oe@1-12-2014
41011033@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
41011034@ck11@formal@none@1@S@In that moment of vision Adam heard the voice within himself saying: I must not hate him, I must not hate him or I shall die.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41011035@ck11@formal@none@1@S@His heart suddenly opened to joy.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41011036@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought that if once, only once, he could talk with Simms Purdew, something about his own life, and all life, would be clear and simple.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41011037@ck11@formal@none@1@S@If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: "Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41011038@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Lemme tell you now" -- If only Simms Purdew could do that, whatever the thing he remembered and told.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011039@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It would be a sign for the untellable, and he, Adam, would understand.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011040@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
41011041@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He saw the sign above the door of the hut: home sweet home.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011042@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He saw the figure of a man in a poncho coming up the company street, with an armful of wood.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41011043@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It was Pullen James, the campmate of Simms Purdew.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011044@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He carried the wood, carried the water, did the cooking, cleaning and mending, and occasionally got a kick in the butt for his pains.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41011045@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam watched the moisture flow from the poncho.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011046@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It gave the rubberized fabric a dull gleam, like metal.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011047@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Pullen James humbly lowered his head, pushed aside the hardtack-box door of the hut, and was gone from sight.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011048@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam stared at the door and remembered that Simms Purdew had been awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Antietam.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41011049@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The street was again empty.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011050@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The drizzle was slacking off now, but the light was grayer.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41011051@ck11@formal@none@1@S@With enormous interest, Adam watched his hands as they touched and shifted the objects on the board directly before him.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41011052@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Into the emptiness of the street, and his spirit, moved a form.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41011053@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The form was swathed in an army blanket, much patched, fastened at the neck with a cord.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41011054@ck11@formal@none@1@S@From under the shapeless huddle of blanket the feet moved in the mud.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011055@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The feet wore army shoes, in obvious disrepair.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011056@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The head was wrapped in a turban and on top of the turban rode a great hamper across which a piece of poncho had been flung.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41011057@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The gray face stared straight ahead in the drizzle.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011058@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Moisture ran down the cheeks, gathered at the tip of the nose, and at the chin.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41011059@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011060@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41011061@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Then the figure moved on.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011062@ck11@formal@none@1@S@This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41011063@ck11@formal@none@1@S@They did washing.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41011064@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam recognized this one.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011065@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He recognized her because she was the one who, in a winter twilight, on the edge of camp, had once stopped him and reached down her hand to touch his fly.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
41011066@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Slice o' mutton, bhoy"? She had queried in her soft guttural.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41011067@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Slice o' mutton"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41011068@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Her name was Mollie.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011069@ck11@formal@none@1@S@They called her Mollie the Mutton, and laughed.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011070@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Looking down the street after her, Adam saw that she had again stopped and again removed one hand from the basket.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41011071@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He could not make out, but he knew that again she was scratching her nose.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41011072@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Mollie the Mutton was scratching her nose.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41011073@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The words ran crazily in his head: Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41011074@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Then the words fell into a pattern: "Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose, Scratching her nose in the rain.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41011075@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011076@ck11@formal@none@1@S@The pattern would not stop.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011077@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It came again and again.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011078@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He felt trapped in that pattern, in the repetition.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011079@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Suddenly he thought he might weep.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41011080@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"What's the matter with me"? He demanded out loud.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011081@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He looked wildly around, at the now empty street, at the mud, at the rain.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41011082@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Oh, what's the matter with me"? He demanded.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011083@ck11@formal@none@1@S@When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
41011084@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He would consign the cash box into the hands of Jed Hawksworth, then stand by while his employer checked the contents and the list of items sold.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41011085@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Then he -- Then what?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011086@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He did not know.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011087@ck11@formal@none@1@S@His mind closed on that prospect, as though fog had descended to blot out a valley.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41011088@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Far off, in the dusk, he heard voices singing, muffled but strong.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41011089@ck11@formal@none@1@S@In one of the huts a group of men were huddled together, singing.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011090@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He stopped.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41011091@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He strained to hear.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011092@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He heard the words: "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee! Let the water and the blood From Thy riven side flow!"@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41011093@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought: I am a Jew from Bavaria.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011094@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He was standing there, he thought, in Virginia, in the thickening dusk, in a costly greatcoat that had belonged to another Jew.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41011095@ck11@formal@none@1@S@That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011096@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He had crossed the river which now, beyond the woods yonder, was sliding darkly under the mist.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41011097@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He had plunged into the dark woods beyond.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011098@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He had died there.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011099@ck11@formal@none@1@S@What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together?@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41011100@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam thought of the hutments, regiment after regiment, row after row, the thousands of huts, stretching away into the night.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41011101@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought of the men, the nameless thousands, huddling in them.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41011102@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought of Simms Purdew snoring on his bunk while Pullen James crouched by the hearth, skirmishing an undershirt for lice, and a wet log sizzled.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41011103@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought of Simms Purdew, who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield, a maniacal scream on his lips, and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of Rebel bayonets about him.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
41011104@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought of Simms Purdew rising up, fearless in glory.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011105@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He felt the sweetness of pity flood through him, veining his very flesh.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011106@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Those men, lying in the huts, they did not know.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011107@ck11@formal@none@1@S@They did not know who they were or know their own worth.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41011108@ck11@formal@none@1@S@In the pity for them his loneliness was gone.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011109@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Then he thought of Aaron Blaustein standing in his rich house saying: "God is tired of taking the blame.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011110@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He is going to let History take the blame for a while".@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41011111@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought of the old man laughing under the glitter of the great chandelier.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41011112@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He thought: Only in my heart can I make the world hang together.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011113@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam rose from the crouch necessary to enter the hut.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011114@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He saw Mose squatting by the hearth, breaking up hardtack into a pan.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011115@ck11@formal@none@1@S@A pot was boiling on the coals.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41011116@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Gonna give Ole Buckra all his money"? Mose asked softly.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011117@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam nodded.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41011118@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Yeah", Mose murmured, "yeah.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011119@ck11@formal@none@1@S@And look what he done give us".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41011120@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam looked at the pot.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011121@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"What is it"? He asked.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011122@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Chicken", Mose said, and theatrically licked his lips.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011123@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Gre't big fat chicken, yeah".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011124@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He licked his lips again.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011125@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Then: "yeah.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41011126@ck11@formal@none@1@S@A chicken with six tits and a tail lak a corkscrew.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41011127@ck11@formal@none@1@S@And it squealed for slop".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41011128@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Mose giggled.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41011129@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Fooled you, huh?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41011130@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It is the same ole same, tell me its name.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41011131@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It is sowbelly with tits on.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41011132@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It is salt po'k.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011133@ck11@formal@none@1@S@It is salt po'k and skippers.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41011134@ck11@formal@none@1@S@That po'k, it was so full of skippers it would jump and run and not come when you say, hoo-pig.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41011135@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Had to put my foot on it to hole it down while I cut it up fer the lob-scuse".@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41011136@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He dumped the pan of crumbled hardtack into the boiling pot of lobscouse.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41011137@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Good ole lob-scuse", he mumbled, and stirred the pot.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011138@ck11@formal@none@1@S@He stopped stirring and looked over his shoulder.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011139@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Know what Ole Buckra et tonight"? He demanded.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41011140@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Know what I had to fix fer Ole Him"?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41011141@ck11@formal@none@1@S@Adam shook his head.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41011142@ck11@formal@none@1@S@"Chicken", Mose said.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017001@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Burly leathered men and wrinkled women in drab black rags carried on in a primitive way, almost unchanged from feudal times.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41017002@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Peasants puzzled Andrei.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017003@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41017004@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei remembered a Bathyran meeting long ago.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017005@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Tolek Alterman had returned from the colonies in Palestine and, before the national leadership, exalted the miracles of drying up swamps and irrigating the desert.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41017006@ck17@formal@none@1@S@A fund-raising drive to buy tractors and machinery was launched.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017007@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei remembered that his own reaction had been one of indifference.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017008@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Had he found the meaning too late?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017009@ck17@formal@none@1@S@It aggravated him.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017010@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The land of the Lublin Uplands was rich, but no one seemed to care.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017011@ck17@formal@none@1@S@In the unfertile land in Palestine humans broke their backs pushing will power to the brink.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017012@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017013@ck17@formal@none@1@S@All of them were there in this loosely knit association of diversified ideologies, and each berated the other and beat his breast for his own approaches.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41017014@ck17@formal@none@1@S@When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017015@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I do not care if your beliefs take you along a path of religion or a path of labor or a path of activism.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41017016@ck17@formal@none@1@S@We are here because all our paths travel a blind course through a thick forest, seeking human dignity.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41017017@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Beyond the forest all our paths merge into a single great highway which ends in the barren, eroded hills of Judea.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41017018@ck17@formal@none@1@S@This is our singular goal.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017019@ck17@formal@none@1@S@How we travel through the forest is for each man's conscience.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017020@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Where we end our journey is always the same.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017021@ck17@formal@none@1@S@We all seek the same thing through different ways -- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion".@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
41017022@ck17@formal@none@1@S@This was how Alexander Brandel expressed pure Zionism.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41017023@ck17@formal@none@1@S@It had sounded good to Andrei, but he did not believe it.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017024@ck17@formal@none@1@S@In his heart he had no desire to go to Palestine.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017025@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He loathed the idea of drying up swamps or the chills of malaria or of leaving his natural birthright.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41017026@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, "I only want to be a Pole.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017027@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Warsaw is my city, not Tel Aviv".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017028@ck17@formal@none@1@S@And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41017029@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Warsaw!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017030@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He saw the smug eyes of the Home Army chief, Roman, and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41017031@ck17@formal@none@1@S@They had let this black hole of death in Warsaw's heart exist without a cry of protest.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41017032@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Once there had been big glittering rooms where Ulanys bowed and kissed the ladies' hands as they flirted from behind their fans.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41017033@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Warsaw!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017034@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Warsaw!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017035@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Miss Rak.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017036@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I am a Jew".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017037@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Day by day, week by week, month by month, the betrayal gnawed at Andrei's heart.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017038@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He ground his teeth together.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017039@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I hate Warsaw, he said to himself.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017040@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I hate Poland and all the goddamned mothers' sons of them.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017041@ck17@formal@none@1@S@All of Poland is a coffin.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017042@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The terrible vision of the ghetto streets flooded his mind.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017043@ck17@formal@none@1@S@What matters now?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017044@ck17@formal@none@1@S@What is beyond this fog?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017045@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Only Palestine, and I will never live to see Palestine because I did not believe.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017046@ck17@formal@none@1@S@By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41017047@ck17@formal@none@1@S@At a siding, another train which was a familiar sight these days.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017048@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Deportees.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017049@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Jews.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017050@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei's skilled eye sized them up.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017051@ck17@formal@none@1@S@They were not Poles.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017052@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He guessed by their appearance that they were Rumanians.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017053@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He walked toward the center of the city to keep his rendezvous with Styka.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017054@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Of all the places in Poland, Andrei hated Lublin the most.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017055@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The Bathyrans were all gone.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017056@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017057@ck17@formal@none@1@S@From the moment of the occupation Lublin became a focal point.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017058@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He and Ana watched it carefully.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017059@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017060@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Early in 1939, Odilo Globocnik, the Gauleiter of Vienna, established SS headquarters for all of Poland.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017061@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug of war with Hans Frank and the civilian administrators.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41017062@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Globocnik built the Death's-Head Corps.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017063@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Lublin was the seed of action for the "final solution" of the Jewish problem.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017064@ck17@formal@none@1@S@As the messages from Himmler, Heydrich, and Eichmann came in through Alfred Funk, Lublin's fountainhead spouted.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017065@ck17@formal@none@1@S@A bevy of interlacing lagers, work camps, concentration camps erupted in the area.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41017066@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Sixty thousand Jewish prisoners of war disappeared into Lublin's web.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017067@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Plans went in and out of Lublin, indicating German confusion.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017068@ck17@formal@none@1@S@A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names.@@@@1@50@@oe@1-12-2014
41017069@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Lipowa 7, Sobibor, Chelmno, Poltawa, Belzec, Krzywy-Rog, Budzyn, Krasnik.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017070@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Ice baths, electric shocks, lashings, wild dogs, testicle crushers.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017071@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The Death's-Head Corps took in Ukrainian and Baltic Auxiliaries, and the Einsatzkommandos waded knee-deep in blood and turned into drunken, dope-ridden maniacs.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41017072@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Lublin was their heart.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017073@ck17@formal@none@1@S@In the spring of 1942 Operation Reinhard began in Lublin.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017074@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The ghetto, a miniature of Warsaw's, was emptied into the camp in the Majdan-Tartarski suburb called Majdanek.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41017075@ck17@formal@none@1@S@As the camp emptied, it was refilled by a draining of the camps and towns around Lublin, then by deportees from outside Poland.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41017076@ck17@formal@none@1@S@In and in and in they poured through the gates of Majdanek, but they never left, and Majdanek was not growing any larger.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41017077@ck17@formal@none@1@S@What was happening in Majdanek?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017078@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Was Operation Reinhard the same pattern for the daily trains now leaving the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw?@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017079@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Was there another Majdanek in the Warsaw area, as they suspected?@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017080@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei stopped at Litowski Place and looked around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017081@ck17@formal@none@1@S@His watch told him he was still early.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41017082@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Down the boulevard he could see a portion of the ghetto wall.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017083@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He found an empty bench, opened a newspaper, and stretched his legs before him.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017084@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Krakow Boulevard was filled with black Nazi uniforms and the dirty brownish ones of their Auxiliaries.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017085@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Captain Androfski"!@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017086@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei glanced up over the top of the paper and looked into the mustached, homely face of Sergeant Styka.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41017087@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Styka sat beside him and pumped his hand excitedly.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017088@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I have been waiting across the street at the post office since dawn.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41017089@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I thought you might get in on a morning train".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017090@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"It's good to see you again, Styka".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017091@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Styka studied his captain.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017092@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He almost broke into tears.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017093@ck17@formal@none@1@S@To him, Andrei Androfski had always been the living symbol of a Polish officer.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017094@ck17@formal@none@1@S@His captain was thin and haggard and his beautiful boots were worn and shabby.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017095@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Remember to call me Jan", Andrei said.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017096@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Styka nodded and sniffed and blew his nose vociferously.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017097@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"When that woman found me and told me that you needed me I was never so happy since before the war".@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41017098@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I'm lucky that you were still living in Lublin".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017099@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Styka grumbled about fate.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017100@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"For a time I thought of trying to reach the Free Polish Forces, but one thing led to another.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41017101@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I got a girl in trouble and we had to get married.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017102@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Not a bad girl.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017103@ck17@formal@none@1@S@So we have three children and responsibilities.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017104@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I work at the granary.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017105@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Nothing like the old days in the army, but I get by.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017106@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Who complains?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017107@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017108@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I came to Warsaw twice, but there was that damned ghetto wall" "I understand".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017109@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Styka blew his nose again.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017110@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Were you able to make the arrangements"? Andrei asked.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017111@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"There is a man named Grabski who is the foreman in charge of the bricklayers at Majdanek.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41017112@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I did exactly as instructed.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017113@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I told him you are on orders from the Home Army to get inside Majdanek so you can make a report to the government in exile in London".@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41017114@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"His answer"?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017115@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Ten thousand zlotys".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017116@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Can he be trusted"?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017117@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"He is aware he will not live for twenty-four hours if he betrays you".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017118@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Good man, Styka".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017119@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Captain Jan must you go inside Majdanek?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017120@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The stories@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017121@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Everyone really knows what is happening there".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017122@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Not everyone, Styka".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017123@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"What good will it really do"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017124@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017125@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps perhaps there is a shred of conscience left in the human race.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41017126@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Perhaps if they know the story there will be a massive cry of indignation".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017127@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Do you really believe that, Jan"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017128@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I have to believe it".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017129@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Styka shook his head slowly.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017130@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I am only a simple soldier.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017131@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I cannot think things out too well.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017132@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Until I was transferred into the Seventh Ulanys I was like every other Pole in my feeling about Jews.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41017133@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I hated you when I first came in.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41017134@ck17@formal@none@1@S@But my captain might have been a Jew, but he wasn't a Jew.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41017135@ck17@formal@none@1@S@What I mean is, he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017136@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Hell, sir.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017137@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The men of our company had a dozen fights defending your name.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017138@ck17@formal@none@1@S@You never knew about it, but by God, we taught them respect for Captain Androfski".@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017139@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei smiled.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017140@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think, Holy Mother, we have behaved like this for hundreds of years.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41017141@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Why"?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017142@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"How can you tell an insane man to reason or a blind man to see"?@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41017143@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"But we are neither blind nor insane.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017144@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The men of your company would not allow your name dishonored.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017145@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Why do we let the Germans do this"?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41017146@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I have sat many hours with this, Styka.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41017147@ck17@formal@none@1@S@All I ever wanted was to be a free man in my own country.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017148@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I've lost faith, Styka.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017149@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I used to love this country and believe that someday we'd win our battle for equality.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017150@ck17@formal@none@1@S@But now I think I hate it very much".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41017151@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"And do you really think that the world outside Poland will care any more than we do"?@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41017152@ck17@formal@none@1@S@The question frightened Andrei.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017153@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Please don't go inside Majdanek".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017154@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I'm still a soldier in a very small way, Styka".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017155@ck17@formal@none@1@S@It was an answer that Styka understood.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017156@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017157@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Grabski sat in a sweat-saturated undershirt, cursing the excessive heat which clamped an uneasy stillness before sundown.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41017158@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He was a square brick of a man with a moon-round face and sunken Polish features.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017159@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Flies swarmed around the bowl of lentils in which he mopped thick black bread.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017160@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Half of it dripped down his chin.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017161@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He washed it down with beer and produced a deep-seated belch.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017162@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Well"? Andrei demanded.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017163@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Grabski looked at the pair of them.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017164@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He grunted a sort of "yes" answer.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017165@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"My cousin works at the Labor Bureau.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017166@ck17@formal@none@1@S@He can make you work papers.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017167@ck17@formal@none@1@S@It will take a few days.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017168@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I will get you inside the guard camp as a member of my crew.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41017169@ck17@formal@none@1@S@I don't know if I can get you into the inner camp.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41017170@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Maybe yes, maybe no, but you can observe everything from the roof of a barrack we are building".@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41017171@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Grabski slurped his way to the bottom of the soup bowl.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41017172@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Can't understand why the hell anyone wants to go inside that son-of-a-bitch place".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41017173@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Orders from the Home Army".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41017174@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Why?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41017175@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Nothing there but Jews".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017176@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei shrugged.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41017177@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"We get strange orders".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41017178@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"Well -- what about the money"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017179@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41017180@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Grabski had never seen so much money.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41017181@ck17@formal@none@1@S@His broad flat fingers, petrified into massive sausages by years of bricklaying, snatched the bills clumsily.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41017182@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"This ain't enough".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41017183@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"You get the rest when I'm safely out of Majdanek".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017184@ck17@formal@none@1@S@"I ain't taking no goddamned chances for no Jew business".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41017185@ck17@formal@none@1@S@Andrei and Styka were silent.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105001@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41105002@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Rourke was talking on the phone when he came back.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105003@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"About an hour, eh?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105004@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Are you positive"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105005@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He listened a moment and then said, "Hold it".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41105006@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He turned his head and said, "Alvarez will definitely be in a back room at the Jai Alai Club on South Beach within an hour.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41105007@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Want to try and meet him there"?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41105008@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne looked at his watch.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105009@cl05@formal@none@1@S@That wasn't too far from Fifth Street, and should allow him to make Scotty's Bar by midnight.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41105010@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He said with satisfaction, "That's fine, Tim.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41105011@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I'll be there".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105012@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Rourke confirmed the appointment over the phone and hung up.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105013@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know what you're getting into, Mike", he said unhappily.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41105014@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I hope to Christ."@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105015@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne said briskly, "Grab another drink if you want it.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105016@cl05@formal@none@1@S@We've got one other call to make before I meet Alvarez".@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41105017@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Where"?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41105018@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"It's out in the Northeast section.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105019@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Have you got my car here"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105020@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"It's parked in front".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105021@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Rourke hastily slopped whiskey into his glass on top of half-melted ice-cubes.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41105022@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I'd better keep on driving yours", Shayne decided, "because I'll be going on over to the Beach.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41105023@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I can drop you back here to pick mine up".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105024@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He went to a closet to get a light jacket, and took his hat from beside the door.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41105025@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Timothy Rourke gulped down the whiskey hastily and joined him, asking, "Who are we going to call on in the Northeast section"?@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41105026@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"A lady.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41105027@cl05@formal@none@1@S@That is, maybe not too much of a lady.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41105028@cl05@formal@none@1@S@At least, I want to find out whether she's home yet or not".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105029@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He opened the door and followed Rourke out.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41105030@cl05@formal@none@1@S@In Rourke's car, Shayne drove east to Biscayne Boulevard and north toward Felice Perrin's address which had been given to him by the Peralta governess.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41105031@cl05@formal@none@1@S@As he drove, he filled in Timothy Rourke briefly on the events of the evening after leaving the reporter to go to the Peralta house, and on his own surmises.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
41105032@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I want to be in Scotty's Bar at midnight when Marsha makes her phone call there", he ended grimly.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41105033@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know whether that threatening letter of hers has anything to do with this situation or not, but I want to see who takes the call".@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41105034@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"This deal at Las Putas Buenas where the two knife-men jumped you", said Rourke with interest, "that sounds like it was set up with malice aforethought by the luscious Mrs. Peralta, doesn't it"?@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41105035@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"It does", Shayne grunted sourly, still able to taste her mouth on his in the Green Jungle parking lot.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41105036@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"That story of hers about an unsigned note directing her to be there tonight sounds completely phony.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41105037@cl05@formal@none@1@S@If it was designed to put me on the spot, it would have to have been written before Peralta ever called me in on the case".@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41105038@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Do you think Laura did have the counterfeit bracelet made without her husband's knowledge"?@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41105039@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I haven't the faintest idea.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105040@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I think her husband strongly suspects so, and that's why he called me in on the thing in direct defiance of his confederates and almost certainly without telling them why he was doing so.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41105041@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Isn't this Felice's street"?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105042@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne asked, peering ahead at the partially obscured street sign.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105043@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Rourke could see it better out the right-hand side, and he said, "yes.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105044@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Turn to the left, I think, for that number you gave me.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41105045@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Not more than a block or so".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41105046@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne got in the left-hand lane and cut across the Boulevard divider.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41105047@cl05@formal@none@1@S@There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.@@@@1@45@@oe@1-12-2014
41105048@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne drove westward from the Boulevard slowly, letting Rourke crane his head out the window and watch for street numbers.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41105049@cl05@formal@none@1@S@A single automobile was parked half-way up the block on the left-hand side.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105050@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne noted idly that it carried Miami Beach license plates as he approached, and then saw the flare of a match in the front seat as they passed, indicating that it was occupied.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41105051@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He turned to see the briefly-illumed faces of two men in the parked car just as Rourke said, "It's the next house, Mike.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41105052@cl05@formal@none@1@S@On the right".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105053@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Instead of pulling into the curb, Shayne increased his speed slightly to the corner where he swung left.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41105054@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He went around the corner and parked, turning off his lights and motor.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105055@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I told you, Mike", said Rourke in an aggrieved voice.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105056@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"It was back there."@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105057@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne said, "I know it was, Tim".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41105058@cl05@formal@none@1@S@His voice was chilling and cold.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105059@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Did you see the car parked across the street"?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41105060@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"I didn't notice it.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105061@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I was watching for numbers."@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105062@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"It has a Beach license, Tim.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105063@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Two men in the front seat.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105064@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I got a quick look at their faces as we went past.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41105065@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Unless I'm crazy as hell, they're two of Painter's dicks.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105066@cl05@formal@none@1@S@A couple named Harris and Geely.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105067@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Those names mean anything to you"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105068@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Wait a minute, Mike.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105069@cl05@formal@none@1@S@In Painter's office this evening."@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105070@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne nodded grimly.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105071@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"The pair whom Petey is officially commending for slapping me around and pulling me in".@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41105072@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"What are they doing here"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105073@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"A stake-out, I suppose.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105074@cl05@formal@none@1@S@On Felice Perrin.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105075@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Maybe with specific orders to see that I don't make contact with her.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105076@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I'm not positive, Tim.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105077@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I may be wrong.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105078@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I'll slide out and walk around the block back to the cocktail lounge on Biscayne.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41105079@cl05@formal@none@1@S@You drive on and circle back and pull up beside them parked there.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105080@cl05@formal@none@1@S@You're a reporter, and you're looking for Miss Perrin to interview her.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41105081@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Make them show their hands.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41105082@cl05@formal@none@1@S@If they are Beach cops on a stake-out, they'll admit it to a reporter.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41105083@cl05@formal@none@1@S@They've got no official standing on this side of the Bay.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41105084@cl05@formal@none@1@S@As soon as you find out if they are Geely and Harris, come on around to the lounge where I'll be waiting".@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41105085@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne opened the door on his side and stepped out.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105086@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Timothy Rourke groaned dismally as he slid under the wheel.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105087@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"The things you talk me into, Mike."@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41105088@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne chuckled.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41105089@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"How often do they add up to headlines?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41105090@cl05@formal@none@1@S@You should complain".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105091@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He crossed the street and walked swiftly southward to circle back to the Boulevard and north a block to the open restaurant.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41105092@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He was standing at the end of the bar enjoying a slug of cognac when Rourke came in six or eight minutes later.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41105093@cl05@formal@none@1@S@The reporter nodded as he moved up beside him at the bar.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41105094@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne told the bartender, "Bourbon and water", and Rourke told him, "It's those two, all right.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41105095@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Harris and Geely.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105096@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I made them show me their identification before I could be persuaded not to call on Felice Perrin".@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41105097@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne said happily, "I've got it all worked out, Tim.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105098@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Take your time with your drink.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105099@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I'll beat it.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105100@cl05@formal@none@1@S@In exactly three minutes, go in that phone booth behind you and call Police Headquarters.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41105101@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Be excited and don't identify yourself.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105102@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Just say that a couple of drunks are having a hell of a fight down the street, and they better send a patrol car.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41105103@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Then hang up fast and come walking on down to the Perrin address.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105104@cl05@formal@none@1@S@I'll be waiting for you there".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105105@cl05@formal@none@1@S@The bartender brought Rourke's drink and Shayne laid a twenty-dollar bill on the bar.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41105106@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He said in a low voice, "I've got a date with a lady, Mister.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41105107@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Will that pay for a pint I can take with me.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41105108@cl05@formal@none@1@S@You know how it is", he added with a conspiratorial wink.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41105109@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker and you don't have any candy for sale here anyhow".@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41105110@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"We sure don't".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105111@cl05@formal@none@1@S@The bartender winked back at him and palmed the bill.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41105112@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He turned away and returned in a moment with a pint of brandy in a small paper sack which he slid over the counter to Shayne.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41105113@cl05@formal@none@1@S@As the detective slid it into his pocket, Rourke asked sadly, "What in hell are you going to do, Mike"?@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41105114@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Make a couple of punk detectives named Geely and Harris wish to God they'd stayed out of my way this afternoon.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41105115@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Three minutes, Tim".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105116@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne strode out blithely, and Rourke checked his watch and sipped his drink, getting a dime ready to make the telephone call to the police.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41105117@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Outside, Shayne hesitated when he saw that Rourke had parked his coupe directly in front of the bar headed south.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41105118@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He walked over to the right-hand door, opened it and got the reloaded automatic out of the glove compartment and put it in his hip pocket.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41105119@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He hoped he wouldn't be forced to use it in taking care of the Beach detectives, but its weight was comforting at his hip.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41105120@cl05@formal@none@1@S@On this side of the Bay, Miami Beach cops had no more legal rights than any ordinary citizen, and Shayne's pistol permit was just as good as theirs.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41105121@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He went swiftly up the sidewalk toward the parked car with the two Beach detectives in the front seat.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41105122@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He tugged the brim of his hat low as he approached, stepped out into the street just behind the car and strode around to the right-hand side.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41105123@cl05@formal@none@1@S@The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41105124@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne turned the handle and jerked the door open before either of the men were quite aware of his presence in the night.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41105125@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Geely grunted and slid partly out, and Shayne's left arm snaked in around his neck to help him, while he set himself solidly on the roadway and swung his right fist to the big, gum-chewing jaw before Geely could straighten up.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
41105126@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne stepped back to let him slump to the ground, and then dived over him through the open door into Harris who was cursing loudly and trying to drag a gun from a shoulder holster, somewhat impeded by the steering wheel.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
41105127@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne locked his big hands around Harris' thin neck and dragged him out over the seat into the roadway.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41105128@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He hit him once on the sharp point of his chin and felt the body go limp.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41105129@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41105130@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He didn't stir.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105131@cl05@formal@none@1@S@They were both breathing heavily, out cold, and Shayne didn't think either of them had recognized him or could describe him.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41105132@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He got the pint of liquor out of his pocket and unscrewed the top, sprinkled the pungent stuff liberally over both men, and then tossed the open bottle in on the front seat.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41105133@cl05@formal@none@1@S@He turned, then, to look toward the lighted Boulevard, and saw Rourke's tall, emaciated figure come out of the lounge and hurriedly start to angle across the street toward the opposite side.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41105134@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne strolled across to intercept the reporter in front of the two-story house where Felice Perrin lived, and asked casually, "Get the police okay"?@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41105135@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Sure.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41105136@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Said they'd have a patrol car here fast.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41105137@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Let's get inside.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41105138@cl05@formal@none@1@S@What happened with you"?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41105139@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"Why the two damned fools got all excited when they saw the bottle, and knocked each other out cold", Shayne said good-humoredly.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41105140@cl05@formal@none@1@S@"They'll have fun explaining that to the Miami cops.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41105141@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Got no business over here on a stake-out anyway".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41105142@cl05@formal@none@1@S@They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41105143@cl05@formal@none@1@S@A row of mailboxes along the wall had numbers and names on them.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41105144@cl05@formal@none@1@S@Shayne found one marked Perrin A[fj].@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41105145@cl05@formal@none@1@S@The stairway on the right was dark, but there was a wall-switch at the bottom which lighted another dim bulb at the top, and they went up.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41105146@cl05@formal@none@1@S@There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
41114001@cl14@formal@none@1@S@A man with a sketch pad in hand sat with a large pink woman in a small office at the end of a long, dim corridor and made pencil lines on paper and said, "Is this more like it, Mrs. MacReady? Or are the eyebrows more like this"?@@@@1@48@@oe@1-12-2014
41114002@cl14@formal@none@1@S@When he had finished with that, he would go to another part of the hotel and say much the same things to someone else, most probably a busboy.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41114003@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"Begin to look like him now, would you say?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114004@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Different about the mouth, huh?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114005@cl14@formal@none@1@S@More like this, maybe"?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114006@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Men blew dust on objects in a room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Dumont and blew it off again, and did the same in a tiny, almost airless room in a tenement in the West Forties.@@@@1@38@@oe@1-12-2014
41114007@cl14@formal@none@1@S@And men also used vacuum cleaners in both rooms, sucking dust up once more.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41114008@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Men from the Third Detective District, Eighteenth Precinct, had the longest, the most tedious, job.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114009@cl14@formal@none@1@S@At the Hotel Dumont there had, at the time in issue, been twenty-three overnighters, counting couples as singular.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41114010@cl14@formal@none@1@S@These included, as one, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Payne, who had checked in a little after noon the day before, and had not checked out together.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41114011@cl14@formal@none@1@S@But Gardner Willings was not included; he had been at the Dumont for almost a week.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41114012@cl14@formal@none@1@S@There was, of course, no special reason to believe that the man or woman they sought had stayed only overnight at the hotel.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41114013@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The twenty-three (or twenty-two with the Paynes themselves omitted) provided merely a place to start, and their identification was the barest of starts.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41114014@cl14@formal@none@1@S@With names and addresses listed, verification came next.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114015@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It would take time; it would, almost inevitably, trouble some water.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114016@cl14@formal@none@1@S@("I certainly was not at the Dumont last night and my husband couldn't have been.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114017@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He's in Boston.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114018@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Of course he's in" --)@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114019@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The Hotel King Arthur across the street provided almost twice as many problems.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41114020@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want! -- to lunge anxiously through crowded streets to railroad stations and, at odd hours of night, drive from smaller stations to distant homes, probably through rain or, in November, something worse.@@@@1@58@@oe@1-12-2014
41114021@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The King Arthur was less expensive than the Dumont.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114022@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The King Arthur had fifty-four overnighters, again counting rooms rather than people.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114023@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Check the overnighters out.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114024@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Failing to find what was wanted, as was most likely, check out other guests, with special -- but not exclusive -- attention to those with rooms on the street.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41114025@cl14@formal@none@1@S@(Anyone active enough can reach a roof, wherever his room may be.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114026@cl14@formal@none@1@S@) And know, while all this went on, that there was no real reason to suppose that the murderer had been a guest in either hotel.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41114027@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It was not even certain the shot had been fired from either hotel.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41114028@cl14@formal@none@1@S@There were other roofs, less convenient but not impossible.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114029@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It is dull business, detecting, and hard on feet.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114030@cl14@formal@none@1@S@There was also the one salient question to ask, and ask widely: Did you notice anything out of the way?@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41114031@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Like, for example, a man carrying a twenty-two rifle, probably with a telescopic sight attached?@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114032@cl14@formal@none@1@S@There was, of course, no hope it really would be that simple.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114033@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The sniper, whether psychopathic marksman or murderer by intent, would hardly have walked to his vantage point with rifle over shoulder, whistling a marching tune.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41114034@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Anybody carrying anything that might hide a rifle?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114035@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Long thin suitcase?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114036@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Or long fat suitcase, for that matter?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114037@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Shrugs met that, from room clerks, from bellhops.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114038@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Who measures?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114039@cl14@formal@none@1@S@But nothing, it appeared, long enough to attract attention.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114040@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Cases, say, for musical instruments?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114041@cl14@formal@none@1@S@None noted at the Dumont.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114042@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Several at the King Arthur.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114043@cl14@formal@none@1@S@A combo was staying there.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114044@cl14@formal@none@1@S@And had been for a week.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41114045@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Anything else?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114046@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Anything at all?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114047@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Shrugs met that.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114048@cl14@formal@none@1@S@(Detective Pearson, Eighteenth Precinct, thought for a time he might be on to something.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41114049@cl14@formal@none@1@S@A refuse bin at the Dumont turned up a florist's box -- a very long box for very long-stemmed flowers.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41114050@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Traces of oil on green tissue?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41114051@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The lab to check.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114052@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The lab: sorry.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114053@cl14@formal@none@1@S@No oil.)@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114054@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Anything at all strange?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114055@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Well, a man had tried, at the King Arthur, to register with an ocelot.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41114056@cl14@formal@none@1@S@At the Dumont, a guest had come in a collapsible wheel chair.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114057@cl14@formal@none@1@S@At the King Arthur one guest had had his head heavily bandaged, and another had a bandaged foot and had walked with crutches.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41114058@cl14@formal@none@1@S@There had also been a man who must have had St. Vitus or something, because he kept jerking his head.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41114059@cl14@formal@none@1@S@As reports dribbled in, William Weigand tossed them into the centrifuge which had become his head.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41114060@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Mullins came in.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114061@cl14@formal@none@1@S@There was no sign of Mrs. Lauren Payne at her house on Nod Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41114062@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The house was modern, large, on five acres.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114063@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Must have cost plenty.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114064@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The State cops would check from time to time; pass word when there was word to pass.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41114065@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Weigand tossed this news into the centrifuge.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114066@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Sort things out, damn it.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114067@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Sort out the next move.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114068@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Try to forget motive for the moment.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114069@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Consider opportunity.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114070@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes (make five arbitrary) positively had none.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41114071@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The Norths; Hathaway, Jerry's publicity director; Livingston Birdwood, producer of Uprising.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114072@cl14@formal@none@1@S@They had been with Payne when he was shot, could not therefore have shot him from above.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41114073@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Take Gardner Willings.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114074@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He had left after the scuffle; had been seen to leave.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114075@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He would have had ample time to go into a blind somewhere and wait his prey.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41114076@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Consider him seriously, therefore?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114077@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Intangibles entered, then -- hunches which felt like facts.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114078@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Willings would ambush, certainly; Willings undoubtedly had.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114079@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Willings was, presumably, a better than average shot.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114080@cl14@formal@none@1@S@But -- hunch, now -- Willings would not ambush anything which went on two legs instead of four.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41114081@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Because, if for no other reason, Willings would never for a moment suppose he was not bigger, tougher, than anything else that went on two legs.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41114082@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Ambushes are laid by those who doubt themselves, as any man may against a tiger.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114083@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Faith Constable had had to "go on" from the party and had, presumably, gone on.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114084@cl14@formal@none@1@S@To be checked out further.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114085@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Forget motive?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114086@cl14@formal@none@1@S@No, motive is a part of fact.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114087@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Nobody in his right mind punishes a quarter-century-old dereliction.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114088@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Grudges simply do not keep that well in a sane mind.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114089@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Faith Constable had accomplished much in a quarter of a century.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114090@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Jeopardize it now to correct so old a wrong?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114091@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Bill shook his head.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114092@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Also, he thought, I doubt if she could hit the side of a barn with a shotgun.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41114093@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Lauren herself?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114094@cl14@formal@none@1@S@She had left the party early, pleading a headache.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114095@cl14@formal@none@1@S@No lack of opportunity, presuming she had a gun.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114096@cl14@formal@none@1@S@She might, conceivably, have brought one in in a large-enough suitcase.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114097@cl14@formal@none@1@S@(Check on the Payne luggage.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114098@cl14@formal@none@1@S@) She might now have taken it away again.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114099@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Motive -- her husband wandering?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114100@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Bitter, unreasoning jealousy?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114101@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Heaven knew it happened and hell knew it too.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114102@cl14@formal@none@1@S@But -- it happened, almost always, among the primitive and, usually, among the very young.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114103@cl14@formal@none@1@S@(Call it mentally young; call it retarded.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114104@cl14@formal@none@1@S@) There was nothing to indicate that Lauren Payne was primitive.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114105@cl14@formal@none@1@S@She did not move in primitive circles.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114106@cl14@formal@none@1@S@She was young, but not that young.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114107@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It occurred to Bill Weigand that he was, on a hunch basis, eliminating a good many.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41114108@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He reminded himself that all eliminations were tentative.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114109@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He also reminded himself that he had an unusual number of possibilities.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114110@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The Masons, mother or son, or mother and son?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114111@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Opportunity was obvious.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114112@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Motive.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41114113@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Here, too, the cause to hate lay well back in the years.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114114@cl14@formal@none@1@S@But bitterness had more cause to remain, even increasingly to corrode.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114115@cl14@formal@none@1@S@With the boy, particularly.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114116@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The boy had, apparently -- if Mrs. MacReady was right in what she had told Mullins -- only in recent months been forced to give up college, to work as a busboy.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41114117@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Seeing the man he blamed for this made much of -- youth and bitterness and -- Bill picked up the telephone; got Mullins.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41114118@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"Send out a pickup on Mrs. Mason and the boy when you've got enough to go on", Bill said.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41114119@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"Right"?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41114120@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Mullins would do.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114121@cl14@formal@none@1@S@A man named Lars Simon, playwright-director, had expressed a wish that Anthony Payne drop dead.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114122@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He would say, of course, that he had not really had any such wish; that what he had said was no more than one of those things one does say, lightly, meaning nothing.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41114123@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Which probably would turn out to be true; which he obviously had to be given the opportunity to say.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41114124@cl14@formal@none@1@S@A man named Blaine Smythe, with "y" and "e" but pronounced without them, had been fired at Payne's insistence.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41114125@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He was also, if Pam North was right, a closer acquaintance of Lauren Payne's than she, now, was inclined to admit.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41114126@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He might deny the latter; would certainly deny any connection between the two things, or any connection of either with murder.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41114127@cl14@formal@none@1@S@He would have to be given the opportunity.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114128@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Mullins?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41114129@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It was evident that Mullins was the man to go.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41114130@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41114131@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41114132@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Let Mullins keep the firm seat; let Stein.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114133@cl14@formal@none@1@S@When Siamese cats are intertwined it is difficult to tell where one leaves off and another begins.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41114134@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Stilts and Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat -- rather large, as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two heads and two tails.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41114135@cl14@formal@none@1@S@On the other hand, they, or it, seemed to have no legs whatever.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41114136@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Pamela North said, "Hi", to her cats, and added that proper cats met their humans at the door.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41114137@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Of four dark brown ears, one twitched slightly at this.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41114138@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"All right", Pam said.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114139@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"I know it isn't dinnertime".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114140@cl14@formal@none@1@S@But at this the one too-large cat suddenly became two cats, stretching.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114141@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Shadow, the more talkative, began at once to talk, her voice piteous.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114142@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Stilts, a more direct cat, leaped from the bed and trotted briskly toward the kitchen.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114143@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Shadow looked surprised, wailed, and trotted after her.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114144@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The hell it isn't dinnertime, two waving tails told Pam North.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114145@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It was not, whatever tale was told by tails.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114146@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Martha presumably would cope.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114147@cl14@formal@none@1@S@She might be firm.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114148@cl14@formal@none@1@S@It was most unlikely that she would be firm.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114149@cl14@formal@none@1@S@They want to be fat cats, Pam thought, and lighted a cigarette and leaned back on a chaise and considered pulling her thoughts together.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41114150@cl14@formal@none@1@S@After a time, it occurred to her that her thoughts were not worth the trouble.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41114151@cl14@formal@none@1@S@A vague feeling that Anthony Payne had had it coming was hardly a thought and was, in any event, reprehensible.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41114152@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Had Faith Constable's explanation of her confidence, so uninvited, been a little thin?@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41114153@cl14@formal@none@1@S@That was more like a thought, but not a great deal more.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41114154@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear?@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41114155@cl14@formal@none@1@S@And possessed himself -- how? -- of a rifle and killed?@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114156@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Pam found she had no answers; had only a hope.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41114157@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The poor kid -- the poor, frail kid.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114158@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Some people have luck and some have no luck and that, whatever people who prefer order say, is the size of it.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41114159@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The poor, unlucky -- The telephone rang.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41114160@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Pam realized, to her surprise, that she had been almost dozing.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41114161@cl14@formal@none@1@S@At four o'clock in the afternoon.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41114162@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Two martinis for lunch -- that was the trouble.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41114163@cl14@formal@none@1@S@I ought to remember.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114164@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Don't pretend.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41114165@cl14@formal@none@1@S@You do remember.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114166@cl14@formal@none@1@S@You just --@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41114167@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"Hello? Yes, this is she?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114168@cl14@formal@none@1@S@What"?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41114169@cl14@formal@none@1@S@The voice had music in it.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41114170@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Even with words coming too fast, they came on the music of the voice.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41114171@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"I said I would", Pam said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41114172@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"They won't talk about who gave the information.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114173@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Not unless they have to.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41114174@cl14@formal@none@1@S@They don't, Mrs. Constable.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41114175@cl14@formal@none@1@S@Not unless they have" -- She was interrupted.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41114176@cl14@formal@none@1@S@"Call this a cry for help", Faith Constable said.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204001@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ryan hefted his bulk up and supported it on one elbow.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204002@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He rubbed his eyes sleepily with one huge paw.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204003@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Ekstrohm, Nogol, you guys okay"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204004@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Nothing wrong with me that couldn't be cured", Nogol said.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204005@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He didn't say what would cure him; he had been explaining all during the trip what he needed to make him feel like himself.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41204006@cm04@formal@none@1@S@His small black eyes darted inside the olive oval of his face.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204007@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Ekstrohm"? Ryan insisted.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204008@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Okay".@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41204009@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Well, let's take a ground-level look at the country around here".@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204010@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The facsiport rolled open on the landscape.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204011@cm04@formal@none@1@S@A range of bluffs hugged the horizon, the color of decaying moss.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204012@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Above them, the sky was the black of space, or the almost equal black of the winter sky above Minneapolis, seen against neon-lit snow.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41204013@cm04@formal@none@1@S@That cold, empty sky was full of fire and light.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204014@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It seemed almost a magnification of the Galaxy itself, of the Milky Way, blown up by some master photographer.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41204015@cm04@formal@none@1@S@This fiery swath was actually only a belt of minor planets, almost like the asteroid belt in the original Solar System.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41204016@cm04@formal@none@1@S@These planets were much bigger, nearly all capable of holding an atmosphere.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204017@cm04@formal@none@1@S@But to the infuriation of scientists, for no known reason not all of them did.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204018@cm04@formal@none@1@S@This would be the fifth mapping expedition to the planetoids of Yancy-6 in three generations.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204019@cm04@formal@none@1@S@They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.@@@@1@49@@oe@1-12-2014
41204020@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"How can a planet with so many neighbors be so lonely"? Ryan asked.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204021@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He was the captain, so he could ask questions like that.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204022@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Some can be lonely in a crowd", Nogol said elaborately.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204023@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"What will we need outside, Ryan"? Ekstrohm asked.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204024@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"No helmets", the captain answered.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204025@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"We can breathe out there, all right.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204026@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It just won't be easy.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204027@cm04@formal@none@1@S@This old world lost all of its helium and trace gases long ago.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204028@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Nitrogen and oxygen are about it".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204029@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Ryan, look over there", Nogol said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204030@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Animals.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41204031@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ringing the ship.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204032@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Think they're intelligent, maybe hostile"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204033@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I think they're dead", Ekstrohm interjected quietly.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204034@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I get no readings from them at all.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204035@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Sonic, electronic, galvanic -- all blank.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204036@cm04@formal@none@1@S@According to these needles, they're stone dead".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204037@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Ekstrohm, you and I will have a look", Ryan said.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204038@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"You hold down the fort, Nogol.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204039@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Take it easy".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204040@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Easy", Nogol confirmed.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204041@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41204042@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Me, I know the mind of an officer works in a strange and unfathomable manner".@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204043@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I'm not worried about you mis-reading the dials, Nogol, just about a lug like you reading them at all.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41204044@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Remember, when the little hand is straight up that's negative.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204045@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Positive results start when it goes towards the hand you use to make your mark".@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204046@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"But I'm ambidextrous".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204047@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ryan told him what he could do then.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204048@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41204049@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The strong negative field his suit set up would help to repel bacteria and insects.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204050@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Actually, the types of infection that could attack a warm-blooded mammal were not infinite, and over the course of the last few hundred years adequate defenses had been found for all basic categories.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41204051@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He wasn't likely to come down with hot chills and puzzling striped fever.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204052@cm04@formal@none@1@S@They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41204053@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It was day, but in the thin atmosphere contrasts were sharp between light and shadow.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204054@cm04@formal@none@1@S@They walked from midnight to noon, noon to midnight, and came to the beast sprawled on its side.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41204055@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm nudged it with a boot.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204056@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Hey, this is pretty close to a wart-hog".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204057@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Uh-huh", Ryan admitted.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204058@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"One of the best matches I've ever found.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204059@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Well, it has to happen.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204060@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Statistical average and all.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204061@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Still, it sometimes gives you a creepy feeling to find a rabbit or a snapping turtle on some strange world.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41204062@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It makes you wonder if this exploration business isn't all some big joke, and somebody has been everywhere before you even started".@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41204063@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The surveyor looked sidewise at the captain.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204064@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The big man seldom gave out with such thoughts.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204065@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm cleared his throat.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204066@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"What shall we do with this one?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204067@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Dissect it"?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41204068@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ryan nudged it with his toe, following Ekstrohm's example.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204069@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know, Stormy.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204070@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It sure as hell doesn't look like any dominant intelligent species to me.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204071@cm04@formal@none@1@S@No hands, for one thing.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204072@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Of course, that's not definite proof".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204073@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"No, it isn't", Ekstrohm said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204074@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I think we'd better let it lay until we get a clearer picture of the ecological setup around here.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41204075@cm04@formal@none@1@S@In the meantime, we might be thinking on the problem all these dead beasts represent.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204076@cm04@formal@none@1@S@What killed them"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204077@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"It looks like we did, when we made blastdown".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204078@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"But what about our landing was lethal to the creatures"?@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204079@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Radiation"? Ekstrohm suggested.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204080@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"The planet is very low in radiation from mineral deposits, and the atmosphere seems to shield out most of the solar output.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41204081@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Any little dose of radiation might knock off these critters".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204082@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know about that.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204083@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Maybe it would work the other way.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204084@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Maybe because they have had virtually no radioactive exposure and don't have any R's stored up, they could take a lot without harm".@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41204085@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Then maybe it was the shockwave we set up.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204086@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Or maybe it's sheer xenophobia.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204087@cm04@formal@none@1@S@They curl up and die at the sight of something strange and alien -- like a spaceship".@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41204088@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Maybe", the captain admitted.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204089@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"At this stage of the game anything could be possible.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204090@cm04@formal@none@1@S@But there's one possibility I particularly don't like".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204091@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"And that is"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204092@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204093@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Suppose it is something right on the planet, native to it.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204094@cm04@formal@none@1@S@I just hope it doesn't work on Earthmen too.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204095@cm04@formal@none@1@S@These critters went real sudden".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204096@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and thought, the camp is quiet.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204097@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The Earthmen made camp outside the spaceship.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204098@cm04@formal@none@1@S@There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41204099@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The camp was a cluster of aluminum bubbles, ringed with a spy web to alert the Earthmen to the approach of any being.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41204100@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Each man had a bubble to himself, privacy after the long period of enforced intimacy on board the ship.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41204101@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and listened to the sounds of the night on Yancey-6 138.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41204102@cm04@formal@none@1@S@There was a keening of wind, and a cracking of the frozen ground.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204103@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Insects there were on the world, but they were frozen solid during the night, only to revive and thaw in the morning sun.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41204104@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The bunk he lay on was much more uncomfortable than the acceleration couches on board.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204105@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Yet he knew the others were sleeping more soundly, now that they had renewed their contact with the matter that had birthed them to send them riding high vacuum.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41204106@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm was not asleep.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204107@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Now there could be an end to pretending.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204108@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He threw off the light blanket and swung his feet off the bunk, to the floor.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41204109@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm stood up.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204110@cm04@formal@none@1@S@There was no longer any need to hide.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204111@cm04@formal@none@1@S@But what was there to do?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204112@cm04@formal@none@1@S@What had changed for him?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204113@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He no longer had to lie in his bunk all night, his eyes closed, pretending to sleep.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41204114@cm04@formal@none@1@S@In privacy he could walk around, leave the light on, read.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204115@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It was small comfort for insomnia.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204116@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm never slept.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204117@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Some doctors had informed him he was mistaken about this.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204118@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Actually, they said, he did sleep, but so shortly and fitfully that he forgot.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41204119@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Others admitted he was absolutely correct -- he never slept.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204120@cm04@formal@none@1@S@His body processes only slowed down enough for him to dispell fatigue poisons.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204121@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Occasionally he fell into a waking, gritty-eyed stupor; but he never slept.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204122@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Never at all.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204123@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Naturally, he couldn't let his shipmates know this.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204124@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Insomnia would ground him from the Exploration Service, on physiological if not psychological grounds.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41204125@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He had to hide it.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204126@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Over the years, he had had buddies in space in whom he thought he could confide.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41204127@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The buddies invariably took advantage of him.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204128@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Since he couldn't sleep anyway, he might as well stand their watches for them or write their reports.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41204129@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Where the hell did he get off threatening to report any laxness on their part to the captain?@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41204130@cm04@formal@none@1@S@A man with insomnia had better avoid bad dreams of that kind if he knew what was good for him.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41204131@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm had to hide his secret.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204132@cm04@formal@none@1@S@In a camp, instead of shipboard, hiding the secret was easier.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204133@cm04@formal@none@1@S@But the secret itself was just as hard.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204134@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41204135@cm04@formal@none@1@S@He scanned a few lines on the social repercussions of a celebrated nineteenth century sex murderer, but he couldn't seem to concentrate on the weighty, pontifical, ponderous style.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41204136@cm04@formal@none@1@S@On impulse, he flipped up the heat control on his coverall and slid back the hatch of the bubble.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41204137@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm walked through the alien glass and looked up at the unfamiliar constellations, smelling the frozen sterility of the thin air.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41204138@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Behind him, his mates stirred without waking.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204139@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm was startled in the morning by a banging on the hatch of his bubble.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41204140@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been resting, sleeplessly.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41204141@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The angry burnt-red face of Ryan greeted him.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204142@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Okay, Stormy, this isn't the place for fun and games.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204143@cm04@formal@none@1@S@What did you do with them"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204144@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Do with what"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204145@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"The dead beasties.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204146@cm04@formal@none@1@S@All the dead animals laying around the ship".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204147@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"What are you talking about, Ryan?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204148@cm04@formal@none@1@S@What do you think I did with them"?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204149@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204150@cm04@formal@none@1@S@All I know is that they are gone".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204151@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Gone"?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41204152@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm shouldered his way outside and scanned the veldt.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204153@cm04@formal@none@1@S@There was no ring of animal corpses.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204154@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Nothing.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41204155@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Nothing but wispy grass whipping in the keen breeze.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204156@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I'll be damned", Ekstrohm said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204157@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"You are right now, buddy.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204158@cm04@formal@none@1@S@ExPe doesn't like anybody mucking up primary evidence".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204159@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Where do you get off, Ryan"? Ekstrohm demanded.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204160@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Why pick me for your patsy?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204161@cm04@formal@none@1@S@This has got to be some kind of local phenomenon.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41204162@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Why accuse a shipmate of being behind this"?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204163@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Listen, Ekstrohm, I want to give you the benefit of every doubt.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204164@cm04@formal@none@1@S@But you aren't exactly the model of a surveyor, you know.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204165@cm04@formal@none@1@S@You've been riding on a pink ticket for six years, you know that".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204166@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"No", Ekstrohm said, "No, I didn't know that".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204167@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"You've been hiding things from me and Nogol every jump we've made with you.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41204168@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Now comes this!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41204169@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It fits the pattern of secrecy and stealth you've been involved in".@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204170@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"What could I do with your lousy dead bodies?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41204171@cm04@formal@none@1@S@What would I want with them"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204172@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"All I know is that you were outside the bubbles last night, and you were the only sentient being who came in or out of our alarm web.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41204173@cm04@formal@none@1@S@The tapes show that.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204174@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Now all the bodies are missing, like they got up and walked away".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41204175@cm04@formal@none@1@S@It was not a new experience to Ekstrohm.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204176@cm04@formal@none@1@S@No.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41204177@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Suspicion wasn't new to him at all.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41204178@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Ryan, there are other explanations for the disappearance of the bodies.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41204179@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Look for them, will you?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204180@cm04@formal@none@1@S@I give you my word I'm not trying to pull some stupid kind of joke, or to deliberately foul up the expedition.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41204181@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Take my word, can't you"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204182@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ryan shook his head.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41204183@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I don't think I can.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204184@cm04@formal@none@1@S@There's still such a thing as mental illness.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41204185@cm04@formal@none@1@S@You may not be responsible".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204186@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Ekstrohm scowled.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41204187@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"Don't try anything violent, Stormy.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41204188@cm04@formal@none@1@S@I outweigh you fifty pounds and I'm fast for a big man".@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41204189@cm04@formal@none@1@S@"I wasn't planning on jumping you.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41204190@cm04@formal@none@1@S@Why do you have to jump me the first time something goes wrong?@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303001@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The sentry was not dead.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303002@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He was, in fact, showing signs of reviving.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303003@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303004@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A bayonet hung in a belt scabbard.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303005@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He was partially uniformed in a cavalry tunic and hat.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303006@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike stripped these from him and donned them.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303007@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He and Dean tied and gagged the man, using his belt and shirt for the purpose.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41303008@cn03@formal@none@1@S@They dragged him inside the building.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303009@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Fiske joined them, unsteady on his feet.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303010@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Julia, seeing the bandage, rushed to him.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303011@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"You are hurt"! She breathed.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303012@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"I never felt better in my life", Fiske blustered.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303013@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He turned to Susan and kissed her on the cheek.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303014@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Thank you, My dear", he said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303015@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"You are very brave".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303016@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike silenced them.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303017@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"We'll talk later.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303018@cn03@formal@none@1@S@First, we've got to get out of here".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303019@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"We'll grab horses", Dean said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303020@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303021@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303022@cn03@formal@none@1@S@But it at least offered him a chance for living.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303023@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He had none here.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303024@cn03@formal@none@1@S@And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303025@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guerrilla bivouac remained silent.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303026@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Light showed in the orderly room across the parade ground.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303027@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Someone evidently was on duty there.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303028@cn03@formal@none@1@S@No doubt there would be men guarding the horses.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303029@cn03@formal@none@1@S@About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41303030@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303031@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He handed the guard's rifle to Fiske.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303032@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Dean and myself will try to cut out horses to ride", he said.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303033@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"We'll stampede the rest.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303034@cn03@formal@none@1@S@You stay with the ladies.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303035@cn03@formal@none@1@S@All of you be ready to ride hell for leather".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303036@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He added, "If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them".@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41303037@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He handed the bayonet to Dean and kept the pistol.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303038@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Susan halted Dean and kissed him.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303039@cn03@formal@none@1@S@She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303040@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike turned away.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303041@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41303042@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He felt unutterably weary.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303043@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Dean turned from Susan and took Julia Fortune in his arms.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303044@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He kissed her also, and with deep tenderness.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303045@cn03@formal@none@1@S@She too began to weep.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303046@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He released her and joined Mike.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303047@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"All right", he said.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303048@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike only said, "Later".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303049@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Be careful, McLish"! Susan said fiercely.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303050@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"The way you were careful"? He snorted.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303051@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Running around in the moonlight almost naked and slugging a man with a rock"?@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303052@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He kept going.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303053@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He wanted no more sentimental scenes with her.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303054@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He might say or do something foolish.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303055@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Something all of them would regret.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303056@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41303057@cn03@formal@none@1@S@And using him, Mike McLish, as a sop to her pride.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303058@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He handed the bayonet to Dean and kept the pistol.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303059@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Stay well back of me", he said.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303060@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"I'm going to walk up to the horses, bold as brass, pretending I'm one of the guerrillas.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41303061@cn03@formal@none@1@S@There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close".@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41303062@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Holding the pistol concealed, he walked to the rear wall of the stockade.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303063@cn03@formal@none@1@S@It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303064@cn03@formal@none@1@S@One wing stood open.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303065@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike passed through it and moved toward the dark mass of horses.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303066@cn03@formal@none@1@S@They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303067@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A voice spoke near-at-hand.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303068@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Who's that"?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41303069@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Just me", Mike said.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303070@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Is that you, Bill"?@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303071@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He located his man.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303072@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guard stood in the shadow of the stockade wall just out of reach of the moonlight.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41303073@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike kept walking and got within arm's reach before the man became suspicious and straightened from his lax slouch.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41303074@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike struck with the muzzle of the pistol.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303075@cn03@formal@none@1@S@But the luck that had been running their way left him.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303076@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guard instinctively parried the blow with his rifle.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303077@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He tried to veer the rifle around to fire into Mike's body.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303078@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike, off balance, managed to bat the muzzle away a moment before it exploded.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303079@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The bullet went wide.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303080@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike swung the pistol in a savage backlash.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303081@cn03@formal@none@1@S@This time it connected solidly on the man's temple, felling him.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303082@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The explosion of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were still rolling in the hills.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41303083@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The startled horses began rearing on their tethers.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303084@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Dean came rushing up.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303085@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Are you hit"? He demanded.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303086@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"No, but the fat's in the fire"! Mike said.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303087@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"There's no chance now of all of us getting away.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303088@cn03@formal@none@1@S@You'll have to try it alone".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303089@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The sentry's saddled horse stood picketed nearby, having been kept handy in case of need.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41303090@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303091@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Up you go"! He said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303092@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Ride"!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41303093@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Dean resisted Mike's attempt to push him toward the horse.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303094@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Why not you"? He protested.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303095@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Dammit"! Mike said frantically.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303096@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"You're lighter than me.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303097@cn03@formal@none@1@S@It's our only chance now.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303098@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Try to find these Feds.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303099@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41303100@cn03@formal@none@1@S@You're the one that's taking the big chance".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303101@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Dean still hesitated, but Mike lifted him almost bodily into the saddle and thrust the reins in his hand.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41303102@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"No telling how good this horse is", Mike panted.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303103@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Favor him and save something in case you hit trouble.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303104@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Watch out for Apaches when it comes daylight.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303105@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Take the pistol.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303106@cn03@formal@none@1@S@You might need it.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303107@cn03@formal@none@1@S@We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41303108@cn03@formal@none@1@S@I'll stampede the rest of these horses so they can't chase you".@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303109@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Dean leaned from the saddle and gave him a mighty whack on the back.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303110@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"McLish", he said as he kicked the horse into motion, "I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again".@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41303111@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Then he was on his way at a gallop.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303112@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike ran down the line, slashing picket ropes with the bayonet.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303113@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He lifted a screeching war whoop.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303114@cn03@formal@none@1@S@That touched off a total stampede.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303115@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He darted inside the stockade and freed the horses there.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303116@cn03@formal@none@1@S@These poured through the gate and joined the flight.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303117@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The animals thundered away into the moonlight, heading for the ridges.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303118@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303119@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Apaches"! Mike yelled.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303120@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"They're stealin' the stock"!@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303121@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41303122@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He crouched there.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303123@cn03@formal@none@1@S@His shout had been taken up and repeated.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303124@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guerrillas were running across the parade ground and through the rear gate in the wake of the departing horses.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41303125@cn03@formal@none@1@S@All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41303126@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Durkin and Calhoun came running from the post.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303127@cn03@formal@none@1@S@They had pistols in their hands.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303128@cn03@formal@none@1@S@They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303129@cn03@formal@none@1@S@They followed the others toward the east gate.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303130@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41303131@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike made a dash to the rear of the frame buildings.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303132@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He crawled beneath the two supply wagons which stood between the buildings and peered around a corner.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41303133@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The area was deserted.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303134@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
41303135@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike crawled to the door and peered in.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303136@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The orderly room seemed to be deserted.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303137@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A lantern hung from a peg, giving light.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303138@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Ducking inside, he found that three rifles were stacked in a corner.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303139@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A brace of pistols, holstered on belts, hung from a peg, along with ammunition pouches.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41303140@cn03@formal@none@1@S@An ammunition case stood open, containing canisters which contained powder cartridges.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303141@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike seized a blanket from a pallet in a corner, spread it on the floor and used it to form a bag in which he placed his booty.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41303142@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Shouldering the load he peered from the door.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303143@cn03@formal@none@1@S@His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41303144@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He looked at the looming hoods of the supply wagons, struck by a new inspiration.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41303145@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He set his bundle down.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303146@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Snatching the lantern from its peg, he shattered its globe with a blow against a post.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41303147@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He picked up the powder canister and ran out.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303148@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Bursting paper cartridges, he scattered powder beneath the nearest wagon and dumped the contents of the canister upon it.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41303149@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He shouldered the blanket again, backed off, and tossed the lantern with its open wick beneath the wagon.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41303150@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He turned and raced across the parade ground toward the rock house.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303151@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Powder flame gushed beneath the wagon.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303152@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The stockade was brilliantly lighted and the guerrillas sighted him.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303153@cn03@formal@none@1@S@They realized the truth.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303154@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Bullets began to snap past him.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303155@cn03@formal@none@1@S@One struck the muzzle of one of the rifles that projected from the shoulder pack.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41303156@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Its force spun him around, but he recovered and got into stride again.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303157@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41303158@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Another struck him heavily in the thigh and he went down.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303159@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Guerrillas were racing toward him.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303160@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Susan and Julia came from the door and dragged him with them.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303161@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The three of them floundered through the door into the interior and fell in a heap.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41303162@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Susan bounced to her feet and slammed the door.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303163@cn03@formal@none@1@S@She crouched aside as bullets beat at the portal, chewing into the planks.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303164@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Some tore entirely through the whipsawed post oak.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303165@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The iron hinges held, but the planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41303166@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike rolled to Susan, grasped her around the knees, dragging her off her feet.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41303167@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41303168@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He peered from a loophole.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303169@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303170@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike snatched a pistol from the heap of scattered booty and fired.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303171@cn03@formal@none@1@S@He dropped a man with the first bullet.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303172@cn03@formal@none@1@S@At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41303173@cn03@formal@none@1@S@That halted the rush.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41303174@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guerrillas scattered for cover.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303175@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The wagons were burning fiercely.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303176@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The mudwagon had caught fire also.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303177@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The blaze was spreading to the frame buildings.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303178@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guerrillas realized they faced a new problem.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303179@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Gawdamighty"! One screeched.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41303180@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"There goes our grub an' ammunition"!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303181@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Get a bucket line going"! Calhoun shouted.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41303182@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Hurry!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41303183@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Hurry"!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41303184@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The guerrillas began a frantic search for pails in which to bring water from the spring.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41303185@cn03@formal@none@1@S@But what few containers they found were inadequate.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41303186@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Many of them, in increasing panic, came running with water in their hats in a ludicrous effort.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41303187@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Both buildings were in flames.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41303188@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The heat drove the guerrillas back.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303189@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The roof of the command post began to buckle.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303190@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Drag the wagons to the spring"! Lew Durkin yelled.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303191@cn03@formal@none@1@S@"Run 'em right into the spring!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41303192@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Hustle"!@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41303193@cn03@formal@none@1@S@One of the wagons erupted a massive pillar of flame.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41303194@cn03@formal@none@1@S@A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41303195@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The wagons and the coach were beyond saving and so were the buildings.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41303196@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The glow of the fire reached through the openings in the windows, giving light enough to examine Mike's wound.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41303197@cn03@formal@none@1@S@The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41303198@cn03@formal@none@1@S@But it had missed the bone and had passed on through.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41303199@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Susan and Julia ripped strips from their clothing and bound the injury.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41303200@cn03@formal@none@1@S@Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41310001@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The Brannon outfit -- known as the Slash-B because of its brand -- reached Hondo Creek before sundown.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310002@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41310003@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41310004@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The rest of the crew offsaddled their mounts and turned them into the remuda.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310005@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41310006@cn10@formal@none@1@S@There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310007@cn10@formal@none@1@S@But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41310008@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It especially bothered the older hands.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310009@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310010@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41310011@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310012@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Supper would be ready within the hour.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310013@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310014@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Billie had unhitched the mules from both Tom Brannon's and his father's wagon.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310015@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41310016@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41310017@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310018@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41310019@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He'd come alone, without his wife and child.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310020@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310021@cn10@formal@none@1@S@She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310022@cn10@formal@none@1@S@She wished that she could talk to her mother about it.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310023@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310024@cn10@formal@none@1@S@But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41310025@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Pat, get out of that creek!@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310026@cn10@formal@none@1@S@You too, Sean!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41310027@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Elena, you'll get mud all over your dress"!@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310028@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Even as she called to the children, Conchita let her gaze seek Tom Brannon.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310029@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Tomas, she called him -- as the Mexican hands did.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310030@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310031@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Whatever they are talking about? Conchita wondered.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310032@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It bothered her that she probably would never know.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310033@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Certainly, she wouldn't dare ask her father afterward.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310034@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He would tell her not to pry into grownups' affairs -- as though she were a little kid like Elena!@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41310035@cn10@formal@none@1@S@At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310036@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310037@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41310038@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He held a cigarette in his right hand.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310039@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It was burning away, forgotten.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310040@cn10@formal@none@1@S@His face was clouded with unhappiness.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310041@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He'd told Hank Maguire and Luis Hernandez about his wife's refusal to come with him and about what he now intended to do.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41310042@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310043@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Finally Hernandez said, "I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it".@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310044@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Let's hear it, anyway".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310045@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Wait a little while.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310046@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Let Senora Brannon live in her father's house for a time.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310047@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Give her time to miss you.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310048@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Maybe she will then come to you.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310049@cn10@formal@none@1@S@After all, you want the senora as much as you want the boy.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310050@cn10@formal@none@1@S@You need her even more than you need him".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310051@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"She won't change her mind", Brannon said.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310052@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"John Clayton will see to that".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310053@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"But after a time away from you."@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310054@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"A year, Luis?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41310055@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Five?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41310056@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Ten?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41310057@cn10@formal@none@1@S@How long should I wait"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310058@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Maybe in a year, Tomas."@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310059@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"In a year she'll like living in Clayton's house too much to come back to me", Brannon said flatly.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41310060@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"And the boy will be too much under his influence by then.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310061@cn10@formal@none@1@S@I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310062@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hell, in a year or five or ten, the boy will have forgotten me -- his own father"!@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310063@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good".@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310064@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"In my place, you'd follow such advice as you give me"?@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310065@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hernandez looked suddenly uncertain.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310066@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310067@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Maybe I should withdraw my advice -- no"?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310068@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon looked at Hank Maguire.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310069@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"And you?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41310070@cn10@formal@none@1@S@What would you do in my place"?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310071@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hank shook his head.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310072@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"I don't know, Tom.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310073@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310074@cn10@formal@none@1@S@With Maria and me, there's never any problem.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310075@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310076@cn10@formal@none@1@S@You're going to need your woman.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310077@cn10@formal@none@1@S@And the boy will need his mother.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310078@cn10@formal@none@1@S@If you take the one, you'd better take both".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310079@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon shook his head.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310080@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"I won't force Beth to come against her will.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310081@cn10@formal@none@1@S@But I'm going to have my son".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310082@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310083@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Finally Luis Hernandez said, "What must be, must be.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310084@cn10@formal@none@1@S@I am with you, of course, Tomas".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310085@cn10@formal@none@1@S@And Hank Maguire added, "So am I, Tom".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310086@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"All right", Brannon said, rising.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310087@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"We'll ride out as soon as we've had chuck".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310088@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon timed it so that they rode in an hour after nightfall.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310089@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They had for cover both darkness and a summer storm.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310090@cn10@formal@none@1@S@During much of the fifteen-mile ride they had watched a lurid display of lightning in the sky to the east.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41310091@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Later, they'd heard the rumble of thunder and then, just outside Rockfork, they ran into rain.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310092@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Those who had slickers donned them.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310093@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The others put on old coats or ducking jackets, whichever they carried behind their saddle cantles.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310094@cn10@formal@none@1@S@There were seven of them, enough for a show of strength -- to run a bluff.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310095@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It was to be nothing more than that.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310096@cn10@formal@none@1@S@There was to be no gunplay.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310097@cn10@formal@none@1@S@If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41310098@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He didn't want to put himself outside the law.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310099@cn10@formal@none@1@S@With him were Hank Maguire, Luis Hernandez, and Luis's son Pedro.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310100@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The Ramirez brothers were also along.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310101@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41310102@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They were all good men.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310103@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It was dark early, because of the storm.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310104@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Also because of the storm, the streets of Rockfork were deserted.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310105@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Lighted windows glowed jewel-bright through the downpour.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310106@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310107@cn10@formal@none@1@S@A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310108@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He'd hoped to catch Jesse Macklin there.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310109@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Probably just stepped out", he said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310110@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Maybe to have supper.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310111@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Red, come along.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41310112@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The rest of you wait here".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310113@cn10@formal@none@1@S@With Red Hogan, he rode to the Welcome Cafe.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310114@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hogan got down from the saddle and had a look inside.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310115@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Not there", he said, getting back onto his horse.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310116@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Maybe he's at the hotel".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310117@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They rode to the Rockfork House, a little farther along the opposite side of the street.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310118@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They reined in there, Brannon remaining in the saddle while Hogan went to look for Jesse Macklin in the hotel dining room.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41310119@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon had no slicker.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310120@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310121@cn10@formal@none@1@S@But he felt no physical discomfort.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310122@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310123@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He hardly noticed the blue-green flashes of lightning and the hard claps of thunder.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310124@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hogan reappeared, stopped on the hotel porch, lifted a hand in signal.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310125@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon dismounted and climbed the steps.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310126@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"He's finished eating", Hogan said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310127@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Sitting with a cup of coffee now.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310128@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It shouldn't be long".@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310129@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It seemed long, at least to Tom Brannon.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310130@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He and Hogan waited by the door, one to either side.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310131@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310132@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41310133@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41310134@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310135@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Just come along", Brannon told him.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310136@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Don't start anything you can't finish".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310137@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Now, listen" -- Macklin began.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310138@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"We'll talk over at your office".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310139@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Brannon, I warn you"!@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310140@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Let's go, Marshal", Brannon said, and took him by the arm.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310141@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Hogan gripped the lawman's other arm.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310142@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310143@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The other five Slash-B men followed them inside, crowding the small room.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310144@cn10@formal@none@1@S@His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310145@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He looked at each of them in turn, Brannon last of all.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310146@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"I'll remember you", he said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310147@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Every last one of you.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310148@cn10@formal@none@1@S@As for you, Brannon" --@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310149@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Put your gun on the desk, Marshal".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310150@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Now, hold on, damn it; I won't" --@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310151@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Red Hogan's patience ran out.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310152@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He lifted the skirt of Macklin's coat, took his gun from its holster, tossed it onto the desk.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310153@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Too much fooling around", he said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310154@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Don't press your luck, badge-toter".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310155@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon said, "Now the key to the lockup, Marshal".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310156@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Key"? Macklin said.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41310157@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"What for"?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41310158@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Can't you guess"? Brannon said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310159@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"We're putting you where you won't come to harm.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310160@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Come on -- the key.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310161@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Get it out"!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41310162@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Damned if I will.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41310163@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Brannon, you've assaulted a law officer and" --@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310164@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310165@cn10@formal@none@1@S@No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310166@cn10@formal@none@1@S@His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41310167@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He held out a moment longer, then his nerve gave under the pressure.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310168@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He swore, and said, "All right.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41310169@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It's here in my pocket".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310170@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Get it out", Brannon ordered.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310171@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Then, as Macklin obeyed: "Now let's go out back".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41310172@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Resignedly, Macklin turned to the back door.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310173@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310174@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The door of the lockup was of oak planks and banded with strap iron.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310175@cn10@formal@none@1@S@It was secured by an oversized padlock.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41310176@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Macklin balked again, not wanting to unlock and open the door.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41310177@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41310178@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41310179@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He was uttering threats in a low but savage voice when they closed and padlocked the door.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41310180@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41310181@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Its windows glowed with lamplight.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310182@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Deputy Marshal Luke Harper still stood guard on the veranda, a forlorn, scarecrowish figure in the murky dark.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310183@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41310184@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Don't try it", Brannon told him, dismounting and starting up the steps with his men following.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41310185@cn10@formal@none@1@S@"Don't get yourself killed for something that doesn't concern you".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310186@cn10@formal@none@1@S@He strode past the now frightened man, entered the house.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310187@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Miguel and Arturo Ramirez remained on the veranda to keep Harper from interfering.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41310188@cn10@formal@none@1@S@The others followed Brannon inside.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41310189@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41310190@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41310191@cn10@formal@none@1@S@They tracked mud on the oaken floor, on the carpet.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41310192@cn10@formal@none@1@S@Their presence fouled the elegance of that room.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41310193@cn10@formal@none@1@S@And their arrival caught John Clayton and Charles Ansley off guard.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41515001@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"They make us conformists look good".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515002@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"That's a peculiar way to think".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515003@cp15@formal@none@1@S@It wasn't just the obnoxious birds that had ruffled her own feathers, of course; she knew that.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515004@cp15@formal@none@1@S@It was Jim's "little" sister Myra, the unreliable, irresponsible, forever flyaway, Myra.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515005@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She's a year older than I am, Lucy told herself.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41515006@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Come, come", Jim said, jollying Lucy a little.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515007@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I love you.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41515008@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Susan ready"?@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41515009@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy listened.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41515010@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Obviously, Susan was not.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41515011@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Upstairs, busy feet, showering like raindrops, pattered around her room.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41515012@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Susan would be visiting her grandmother for only a few days, but even at seven she was a prudent soul; she always packed for a lifetime, just in case.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41515013@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Not yet.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41515014@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Every doll in the house must be going with her".@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41515015@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"She'd better step on it.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515016@cp15@formal@none@1@S@It's a long way to Websterville".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515017@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Jim's fine young face was an expressive one, too; as he looked at her, it registered anxiety.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515018@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"You know", he said.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41515019@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Myra wanted me to thank you for taking Cathy.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515020@cp15@formal@none@1@S@It'll be only a couple of weeks before she finds a home for them in Paris -- but even so, she wants you to know that she's awfully grateful".@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41515021@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy did not believe him; Myra appreciated nothing.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515022@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Jim had put the thanks in his sister's mouth.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515023@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Darling" -- she said, and the single word mingled love and exasperation in an equal blend.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41515024@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"She should have told me herself.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515025@cp15@formal@none@1@S@And will it be only a couple of weeks?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515026@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Remember what happened the last time"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515027@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Leaving Cathy with them, Myra had gone out to the Coast for a supposedly brief visit; but she had stayed all winter, and Cathy had stayed all winter too -- with them.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41515028@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy suspected that Myra would never have come home if Gregg, Myra's husband, hadn't gone out to fetch her.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41515029@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"That was an awfully long two weeks".@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41515030@cp15@formal@none@1@S@For an otherwise silent moment, Jim's keys jingled nervously in his pocket.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515031@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"But she promised -- This will be different", he said at last.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515032@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"You've got to admit she was smart to scare up this fine government job over there -- she'll get a home for herself and Cathy in no time.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41515033@cp15@formal@none@1@S@You'll see, Myra's settling down".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515034@cp15@formal@none@1@S@On the defensive, he added, "I wish you'd think what it must be like for her to be without Greg, to be a new widow, a young widow".@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41515035@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"It depends on the widow".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515036@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy had an idea that Myra loved it.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515037@cp15@formal@none@1@S@And not for one moment did she believe that Myra had settled down.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41515038@cp15@formal@none@1@S@It seemed to Lucy that all their married life, she and Jim had been doing nothing but rescue his sister from the constant crises that were her way of life.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
41515039@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Remembering that succession of disasters, she now considered Cathy, an ominous child-cloud on her horizon.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41515040@cp15@formal@none@1@S@It was not that she disliked Cathy.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41515041@cp15@formal@none@1@S@The youngster drew her, troubled her depths; whenever Lucy saw her, she tried, without noise or fuss, to give her the warmth she had never had from Myra.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41515042@cp15@formal@none@1@S@But Cathy was Myra's responsibility, not hers.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41515043@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I wouldn't even be surprised", she said unhappily, "if Myra tried to leave her with us forever".@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515044@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Myra loved big cities; thousands of miles away -- in Paris, of all places -- she might forget she had ever been a mother.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41515045@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy knew her too well to find it impossible.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515046@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"That's a horrible thing to accuse her of"!@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515047@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Jim was so indignant it was obvious that no matter what he said, he too had seen the looming specter of a forever-Cathy.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515048@cp15@formal@none@1@S@He went to the foot of the stairs and shouted up, fiercely, "Susan! Susan! Get moving"!@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41515049@cp15@formal@none@1@S@A startled piping sound returned.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515050@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Don't yell at Susan", Lucy said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515051@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Was it only a few nights ago that they had been standing together in front of the house looking at the moon-washed river?@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515052@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Their arms around each other, they had been talking of the present and the future; their talk and their feeling had been as deep and warm, as steeped in light, as the air around them.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
41515053@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Then, from within the still, sleeping house, the telephone had rung; Myra, with her news, was on the other end of the line.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515054@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Jim turned back from the stairway and looked at her.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41515055@cp15@formal@none@1@S@His dark brows, which had been lowered in anger, smoothed.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41515056@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Please", he said.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41515057@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"There isn't a chance of Myra's letting anything like that happen.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41515058@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Let's stay friends".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41515059@cp15@formal@none@1@S@But they weren't just friends, Lucy thought; they were husband and wife, and Myra had no right muddling and chilling their marriage.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41515060@cp15@formal@none@1@S@The only thing that had ever come between them was that worthless, selfish sister of his.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41515061@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy was sick of it.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515062@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Well, at last", she said, because Susan was clattering down the stairs.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515063@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Susan looked like an overwhelmed baby nurse; her arms were straining with a burden of dolls.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41515064@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I'm ready", she announced.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41515065@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Do you need that big bundle"? Jim said.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515066@cp15@formal@none@1@S@His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41515067@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"All that junk"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41515068@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Susan stared at him with hurt blue eyes that gushed an instant grief; to her, each of her dolls was a real person with a living heart.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41515069@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Now, now", Lucy said, approaching Susan with a handkerchief, mopping skillfully.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41515070@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Your father didn't mean it, Susan".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515071@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She gave Jim a quick, shape-up look of warning.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515072@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"She'll take every one of them".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515073@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Jim groaned, but he lifted Susan's suitcase and said, in a gentler tone, "Sure -- the entire thousand.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515074@cp15@formal@none@1@S@And when you get back from Grandma's, Cathy will be here to play with you.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41515075@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Nice"?@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41515076@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"No", Susan said, grappling with her outsized armload of dolls with a Scrooge-like effect.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41515077@cp15@formal@none@1@S@And at this point, Lucy thought, there should be a lecture on little cousins' sharing dolls -- but she could sympathize with Susan; there ought to be a limit to sharing, too.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41515078@cp15@formal@none@1@S@That was one more reason she didn't look forward to Cathy's visit, short or long; the last one had been a Lilliputian war.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515079@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She suspected that Cathy had been competing with Susan for attention that she had never had.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41515080@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Well", Jim said, out of the silence, "let's get going, dolls and all".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41515081@cp15@formal@none@1@S@When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515082@cp15@formal@none@1@S@The day was brilliant around her -- flower-scented, crisp with breeze -- yet her inner turmoil darkened it.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515083@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She had let Jim go with a chilly good-by, a chillier kiss.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515084@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She was sorry, and angry at herself, because never in their life together had she done that.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515085@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She turned and began to walk toward the house.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515086@cp15@formal@none@1@S@At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
41515087@cp15@formal@none@1@S@The handsome bird was solitary; its mate must be at home, silently guarding their nest.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41515088@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She had better stay there, Lucy thought; the sly female cowbirds took instant advantage of nests without sentinels.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515089@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Well, Lucy? She said to herself, abandoning the cardinals and the cowbirds.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515090@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She had a day of things to do; among them, she had to prepare the guest room.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515091@cp15@formal@none@1@S@How long would it be occupied? She wondered, with a baffled feeling of helplessness.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41515092@cp15@formal@none@1@S@As long as the unscrupulous Myra chose?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41515093@cp15@formal@none@1@S@For a moment, her mind returned again to the strange, flying world of birds, and she said to herself. It isn't only birds that dump their children in other people's nests.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
41515094@cp15@formal@none@1@S@In the sunshine of late afternoon, Lucy stood looking at the ready guest room.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41515095@cp15@formal@none@1@S@There were new yellow curtains, bright as a child's life ought to be, a new bedspread, lively with hopping rabbits, and hanging from the ceiling was an airy Mother Goose Mobile, spinning slowly in the breeze.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41515096@cp15@formal@none@1@S@A row of little hangers waited for a child's clothes in the neatly empty closet; since Myra had always put most of Greg's money on her own back, Lucy suspected that no more than a few of that long row would be needed.@@@@1@43@@oe@1-12-2014
41515097@cp15@formal@none@1@S@The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.@@@@1@45@@oe@1-12-2014
41515098@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Many times since his death that memory had worried and troubled her.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515099@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Out in the hall, the upstairs phone shrilled, and the small ghost vanished.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41515100@cp15@formal@none@1@S@When she picked up the receiver, her mother's cheerful voice was there.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515101@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Websterville Junction calling", she said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515102@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I just thought I'd let you know.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41515103@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Myra dropped Cathy this morning, and Jim picked Cathy up and left Susan a few hours ago.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515104@cp15@formal@none@1@S@I'd have phoned sooner but I've been busy".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515105@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I can imagine"!@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41515106@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Susan was an active character; for Mother to be able to call, Susan must be napping now, surrounded by her multitude of dolls.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515107@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy drew out the chair and sat down; she relaxed a little, and some of the tension went out of her.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41515108@cp15@formal@none@1@S@You could think yourself as grown up as Methuselah, yet the maternal voice still kept its comforting magic.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515109@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"How was Cathy"?@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41515110@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Subdued.@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41515111@cp15@formal@none@1@S@But Myra was the merriest widow I ever saw".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515112@cp15@formal@none@1@S@On her way to the airport, on her way to Paris -- you bet, Lucy said to herself.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515113@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I've been fixing up the guest room for Cathy".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41515114@cp15@formal@none@1@S@There was a momentary pause, and then her mother said, "How long is she supposed to stay"?@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41515115@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Just for a couple of weeks, till Myra finds a place for them".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41515116@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Well" -- This time there was a long silence, while the telephone hummed faintly with a voiceless life.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515117@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Puzzled, Lucy stared at the flowered wallpaper; her mother was forthright; she was not usually given to mysterious silences.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41515118@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Was she thinking along the same lines Lucy was -- that it was quite possible Cathy might be left with her for good?@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515119@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"You mean once Myra gets to Paris"?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41515120@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Once the soft, pretty moth found the bright light she had always wanted?@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41515121@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Suddenly, seekingly, Lucy asked, "Mother, do you know something I don't know"?@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515122@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Again there was that curious pause, and then her mother said, "I guess I do.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41515123@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Just before Myra left -- She was saying good-by to Cathy, and she didn't realize I was near".@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515124@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She hesitated, as though hunting over words and ways of putting them.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515125@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Cathy was in tears, of course, and I heard Myra say, 'Now be good, and at Christmastime I'll send you a wonderful present from Paris'".@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41515126@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Shocked speechless, Lucy sat there.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515127@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Then she jumped to her feet, the elastic phone cord uncoiling like a black snake.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41515128@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"Christmastime!"@@@@1@1@@oe@1-12-2014
41515129@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Then it was no bogey she had dreamed up; it was only too true.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41515130@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Myra had no intention whatever of sending for Cathy in two weeks.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515131@cp15@formal@none@1@S@For a moment, anger darkened the hallway about her, and when she found her voice, anger thickened it.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515132@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"That does it"! She said.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41515133@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"I'll keep Cathy for two weeks.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515134@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Then, if Myra does nothing about fetching her, I'll pack her right back to her mother -- if I have to take her myself"!@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41515135@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Her hand tightened on the receiver.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515136@cp15@formal@none@1@S@"And that's what I'm going to tell Jim".@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515137@cp15@formal@none@1@S@For Lucy, the day's nagging to-and-fro had come to an abrupt end.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515138@cp15@formal@none@1@S@As she hung up, she saw through the hall's open window the purple-black flying of the cowbirds' wings, and heard their grotesque singing.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41515139@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Cowbird Myra!@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41515140@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She's not going to get away with it.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41515141@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Cathy is tired, Lucy thought, watching them come slowly up the path.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41515142@cp15@formal@none@1@S@The child's thin legs were plodding.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41515143@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She trudged along slowly, both hands clutching a tired teddy bear.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41515144@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She was at the moment just a small, walking package, being delivered to her aunt's and uncle's house.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41515145@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Unlike Susan, she was traveling light; the worn teddy bear, a tiny suitcase that Jim carried, and the clothes she wore, were all she had.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41515146@cp15@formal@none@1@S@Lucy glancing at the miniature case, knew there would not be enough in it for the shortest of stays; they would have to buy things for her.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41515147@cp15@formal@none@1@S@She opened the door.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41526001@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I was thinking of the heat and of water that morning when I was plowing the stubble field far across the hill from the farm buildings.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41526002@cp26@formal@none@1@S@It had grown hot early that day, and I hoped that the boy, my brother's son, would soon come across the broad black area of plowed ground, carrying the jar of cool water.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41526003@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The boy usually was sent out at about that time with the water, and he always dragged an old snow-fence lath or a stick along, to play with.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41526004@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He pretended that the lath was a tractor and he would drag it through the dirt and make buzzing, tractor sounds with his lips.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41526005@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I almost ran over the snake before I could stop the tractor in time.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41526006@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.@@@@1@51@@oe@1-12-2014
41526007@cp26@formal@none@1@S@It lay half in the furrow and half out, and the front wheels had rolled nearly up to it when I put in the clutch.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41526008@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The tractor was heavily loaded with the weight of the plow turning the earth, and the tractor stopped instantly.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41526009@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The snake slid slowly and with great care from the new ridge the plow had made, into the furrow and did not go any further.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41526010@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I had never liked snakes much, I still had that kind of quick panic that I'd had as a child whenever I saw one, but this snake was clean and bright and very beautiful.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41526011@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He was multi-colored and graceful and he lay in the furrow and moved his arched and tapered head only so slightly.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41526012@cp26@formal@none@1@S@Go out of the furrow, snake, I said, but it did not move at all.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41526013@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I pulled the throttle of the tractor in and out, hoping to frighten him with the noise, but the snake only flicked its black, forked tongue and faced the huge tractor wheel, without fright or concern.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41526014@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I let the engine idle then, and I got down and went around the wheel and stood beside it.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41526015@cp26@formal@none@1@S@My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41526016@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I followed it, looking at the brilliant colors on its tubular back, the colors clear and sharp and perfect, in orange and green and brown diamonds the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the diamonds were set one within the other and interlaced with glistening jet-black.@@@@1@49@@oe@1-12-2014
41526017@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The colors were astonishing, clear and bright, and it was as if the body held a fire of its own, and the colors came through that transparent flesh and skin, vivid and alive and warm.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
41526018@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The eyes were clear and black and the slender body was arched slightly.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41526019@cp26@formal@none@1@S@His flat and gracefully tapered head lifted as I looked at him and the black tongue slipped in and out of that solemn mouth.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41526020@cp26@formal@none@1@S@You beauty, I said, I couldn't kill you.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41526021@cp26@formal@none@1@S@You are much too beautiful.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41526022@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41526023@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.@@@@1@62@@oe@1-12-2014
41526024@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The body caressed through my hands like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and dark, were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire colors could come from the coolness of that body.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41526025@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I lowered him so he would not fall and his body slid out onto the cool, newly-plowed earth, from between my pale hands.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41526026@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The snake worked away very slowly and delicately and with a gorgeous kind of dignity and beauty, and he carried his head a little above the rolled clods.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41526027@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The sharp, burning colors of his body stood brilliant and plain against the black soil, like a target.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41526028@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I felt good and satisfied, looking at the snake.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526029@cp26@formal@none@1@S@It shone in its bright diamond color against the sun-burned stubble and the crumbled black clods of soil and against the paleness of myself.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41526030@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The color and beauty of it were strange and wonderful and somehow alien, too, in that dry and dusty and uncolored field.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41526031@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I got on the tractor again and I had to watch the plow closely because the field was drawn across the long hillside and even in that good soil there was a danger of rocks.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
41526032@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I had my back to the corner of the triangular field that pointed towards the house.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41526033@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.@@@@1@60@@oe@1-12-2014
41526034@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I saw it all at a glance.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41526035@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The boy was there at the lower corner of the field, and he was in the plowed earth, stamping with ferocity and a kind of frenzied impatience.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41526036@cp26@formal@none@1@S@Even at that distance, with no sound but the sound of the tractor, I could tell the fierce mark of brutality on the boy.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41526037@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I could see the hunched-up shoulders, the savage determination, the dance of his feet as he ground the snake with his heels, and the pirouette of his arms as he whipped at it with the stick.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41526038@cp26@formal@none@1@S@Stop it, I shouted, but the lumbering and mighty tractor roared on, above anything I could say.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41526039@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I stopped the tractor and I shouted down to the boy, and I knew he could hear me, for the morning was clear and still, but he did not even hesitate in that brutal, murdering dance.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41526040@cp26@formal@none@1@S@It was no use.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41526041@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.@@@@1@62@@oe@1-12-2014
41526042@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I drove the tractor on, not looking down there; I was afraid to look for fear the evil might still be going on.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41526043@cp26@formal@none@1@S@My head began to ache, and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes, and I hated the job suddenly, and I thought, there are only moments when one sees beautiful things, and these are soon crushed, or they vanish.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
41526044@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I felt the anger mount within me.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41526045@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The boy waited at the corner, with the jar of water held up to me in his hands, and the water had grown bubbly in the heat of the morning.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
41526046@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I knew the boy well.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41526047@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He was eleven and we had done many things together.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41526048@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He was a beautiful boy, really, with finely-spun blonde hair and a smooth and still effeminate face, and his eyelashes were long and dark and brushlike, and his eyes were blue.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
41526049@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He waited there and he smiled as the tractor came up, as he would smile on any other day.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41526050@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He was my nephew, my brother's son, handsome and warm and newly-scrubbed, with happiness upon his face and his face resembled my brother's and mine as well.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41526051@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I saw then, too, the stake driven straight and hard into the plowed soil, through something there where I had been not long before.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41526052@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I stopped the tractor and climbed down and the boy came eagerly up to me.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41526053@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Can I ride around with you"? He asked, as he often did, and I had as often let him be on the tractor beside me.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41526054@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I looked closely at his eyes, and he was already innocent; the killing was already forgotten in that clear mind of his.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41526055@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"No, you cannot", I said, pushing aside the water jar he offered to me.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41526056@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I pointed to the splintered, upright stake.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41526057@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Did you do that"? I asked.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41526058@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Yes", he said, eagerly, beginning a kind of dance of excitement.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41526059@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"I killed a snake; it was a big one".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526060@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He tried to take my hand to show me.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526061@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Why did you kill it"?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41526062@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Snakes are ugly and bad".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41526063@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"This snake was very beautiful.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41526064@cp26@formal@none@1@S@Didn't you see how beautiful it was"?@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41526065@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Snakes are ugly", he said again.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41526066@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"You saw the colors of it, didn't you?@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41526067@cp26@formal@none@1@S@Have you ever seen anything like it around here"?@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526068@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Snakes are ugly and bad, and it might have bitten somebody, and they would have died".@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41526069@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"You know there are no poisonous snakes in this area.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41526070@cp26@formal@none@1@S@This snake could not harm anything".@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41526071@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"They eat chickens sometimes", the boy said.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41526072@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"They are ugly and they eat chickens and I hate snakes".@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41526073@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"You are talking foolishly", I said.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41526074@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"You killed it because you wanted to kill it, for no other reason".@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41526075@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"They're ugly and I hate them", the boy insisted.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526076@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Nobody likes snakes".@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41526077@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"It was beautiful", I said, half to myself.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41526078@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The boy skipped along beside me, and he was contented with what he had done.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41526079@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The fire of the colors was gone; there was a contorted ugliness now; the colors of its back were dull and gray-looking, torn and smashed in, and dirty from the boy's shoes.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41526080@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The beautifully-tapered head, so delicate and so cool, had been flattened as if in a vise, and the forked tongue splayed out of the twisted, torn mouth.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41526081@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The snake was hideous, and I remembered, even then, the cool, bright fire of it only a little while before, and I thought perhaps the boy had always seen it dead and hideous like that, and had not even stopped to see the beauty of it in its life.@@@@1@49@@oe@1-12-2014
41526082@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I wrenched the stake out, that the boy had driven through it in the thickest part of its body, between the colored diamond crystals.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41526083@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
41526084@cp26@formal@none@1@S@And then it moved a little more, and I knew the snake was dying, and I would have to kill it there.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41526085@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The boy stood off a few feet and he had the stake again and he was racing innocently in circles, making the buzzing tractor sound with his lips.@@@@1@28@@oe@1-12-2014
41526086@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I'm sorry, I thought to the snake, for you were beautiful.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41526087@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I took the broken length of it around the tractor and I took one of the wrenches from the tool-kit and I struck its head, not looking at it, to kill it at last, for it could never live.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
41526088@cp26@formal@none@1@S@The boy came around behind me, dragging the stake.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526089@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"It's a big snake, isn't it"? He said.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41526090@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"I'm going to tell everybody how big a snake I killed".@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41526091@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Don't you see what you have done"? I said.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41526092@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Don't you see the difference now"?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41526093@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"It's an ugly, terrible snake", he said.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41526094@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He came up and was going to push at it with his heavy shoes.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41526095@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I could see the happiness in the boy's eyes, the gleeful brutality.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41526096@cp26@formal@none@1@S@"Don't", I said.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41526097@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I could have slapped the boy.@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41526098@cp26@formal@none@1@S@He looked up at me, puzzled, and he swayed his head from side to side.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41526099@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I thought, you little brute, you nasty, selfish, little beast, with brutality already developed within that brain and in those eyes.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014
41526100@cp26@formal@none@1@S@I wanted to slap his face, to wipe forever the insolence and brutal glee from his mouth, and I decided then, very suddenly, what I would do.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41709001@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Dear Sirs: Let me begin by clearing up any possible misconception in your minds, wherever you are.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41709002@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41709003@cr09@formal@none@1@S@It is, I am reliably given to understand, the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost; i.e., burglars who rob while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot-slough prowlers, those who work while the occupants are home.@@@@1@44@@oe@1-12-2014
41709004@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Since the latter obviously require an audacity you do not possess, you may perhaps suppose that I am taunting you as socially inferior.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41709005@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Far from it; I merely draw an etymological distinction, hoping that specialists and busy people like you will welcome such precision in a layman.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41709006@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Above all, disabuse yourselves of any thought that I propose to vent moral indignation at your rifling my residence, to whimper over the loss of a few objets d'art, or to shame you into rectitude.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
41709007@cr09@formal@none@1@S@My object, rather, is to alert you to an aspect or two of the affair that could have the gravest implications for you, far beyond the legal sanctions society might inflict.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
41709008@cr09@formal@none@1@S@You have unwittingly set in motion forces so malign, so vindictive, that it would be downright inhumane of me not to warn you about them.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41709009@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Quite candidly, fellows, I wouldn't be in your shoes for all the rice in China.@@@@1@15@@oe@1-12-2014
41709010@cr09@formal@none@1@S@As you've doubtless forgotten the circumstances in the press of more recent depredations, permit me to recapitulate them briefly.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41709011@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.@@@@1@37@@oe@1-12-2014
41709012@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Hastening to the attic, the temperature of which was easily hotter than the Gold Coast, you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet, some khaki pants, and the like, and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there.@@@@1@42@@oe@1-12-2014
41709013@cr09@formal@none@1@S@What you were looking for (unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis rackets and fly screens) eludes me, but to judge from phonograph records scattered about a fumed-oak Victrola. You danced two tangos and a paso doble, which must have been fairly enervating in that milieu.@@@@1@48@@oe@1-12-2014
41709014@cr09@formal@none@1@S@You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.@@@@1@35@@oe@1-12-2014
41709015@cr09@formal@none@1@S@From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41709016@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Rummaging through a stack of drawers nearby, you unearthed an antique French chess set in ivory and sandalwood, which, along with two box Kodaks, you added to your haul.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41709017@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Then, having wrapped the lot in an afghan my dog customarily slept on, you lammed out the front door, considerately leaving it open for neighbors to discover.@@@@1@27@@oe@1-12-2014
41709018@cr09@formal@none@1@S@So much for the tiresome facts, as familiar to you, I'm sure, as to the constables and state troopers who followed in your wake.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41709019@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The foregoing, aided by several clues I'll withhold to keep you on your toes, will pursue you with a tenacity worthy of Inspector Javert, but before they close in, gird yourselves, I repeat, for a vengeance infinitely more pitiless.@@@@1@39@@oe@1-12-2014
41709020@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Fourteen of the sculptures you took possess properties of a most curious and terrifying nature, as you will observe when your limbs begin to wither and your hair falls out in patches.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41709021@cr09@formal@none@1@S@In time, these minor manifestations will multiply and effloresce, riddling you with frambesia, the king's evil, sheep rot, and clonic spasm, until your very existence becomes a burden and you cry out for release.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41709022@cr09@formal@none@1@S@All this, though, is simply a prelude, a curtain-raiser, for what ensues, and I doubt whether any Occidental could accurately forecast it.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41709023@cr09@formal@none@1@S@If, however, it would help to intensify your anguish, I can delimit the powers of a few of the divinities you've affronted and describe the punishment they meted out in one analogous instance.@@@@1@33@@oe@1-12-2014
41709024@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Hold on tight.@@@@1@3@@oe@1-12-2014
41709025@cr09@formal@none@1@S@First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41709026@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41709027@cr09@formal@none@1@S@'fess up -- don't you?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41709028@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Well, ordinarily he is, except (as the Wheel of the Law specifies) toward impious folk who steal, disturb, or maltreat the Presence.@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41709029@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Very peculiar retribution indeed seems to overtake such jokers.@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41709030@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41709031@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Hell's own amount of chaulmoogra oil did nothing to alleviate their torment; they expired amid indescribable fantods, imploring the Blessed One to forgive their desecration.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41709032@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Any reputable French interne can supply you with a dozen similar instances, and I'll presently recount a case out of my own personal experience, but, for the moment, let's resume our catalogue.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41709033@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Whether the pair of Sudanese ivory carvings you lifted really possess the juju to turn your livers to lead, as a dealer in Khartoum assured me, I am not competent to say.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41709034@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Likewise the ivory Chinese female figure known as a "doctor lady" (provenance Honan); a friend of mine removing her from the curio cabinet for inspection was felled as if by a hammer, but he had previously drunk a quantity of applejack.@@@@1@41@@oe@1-12-2014
41709035@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The three Indian brass deities, though -- Ganessa, Siva, and Krishna -- are an altogether different cup of tea.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41709036@cr09@formal@none@1@S@They hail from Travancore, a state in the subcontinent where Kali, the goddess of death, is worshiped.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41709037@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Have you ever heard of Thuggee?@@@@1@6@@oe@1-12-2014
41709038@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Nuf sed.@@@@1@2@@oe@1-12-2014
41709039@cr09@formal@none@1@S@But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.@@@@1@32@@oe@1-12-2014
41709040@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Oddly enough, this is an amulet against housebreakers, presented to the mem and me by a local rajah in 1949.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41709041@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese, a dialect I take it you don't comprehend.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41709042@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Neither do I, but the Tjokorda Agoeng was good enough to translate, and I'll do as much for you.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41709043@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Whosoever violates our rooftree, the legend states, can expect maximal sorrow.@@@@1@11@@oe@1-12-2014
41709044@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The teeth will rain from his mouth like pebbles, his wife will make him cocu with fishmongers, and a trolley car will grow in his stomach.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41709045@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Furthermore -- and this, to me, strikes an especially warming note -- it shall avail the vandals naught to throw away or dispose of their loot.@@@@1@26@@oe@1-12-2014
41709046@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The cycle of disaster starts the moment they touch any belonging of ours, and dogs them unto the forty-fifth generation.@@@@1@20@@oe@1-12-2014
41709047@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Sort of remorseless, isn't it?@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41709048@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Still, there it is.@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41709049@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Now, you no doubt regard the preceding as pap; you're tooling around full of gage in your hot rods, gorging yourselves on pizza and playing pinball in the taverns and generally behaving like Ubermenschen.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41709050@cr09@formal@none@1@S@In that case, listen to what befell another wisenheimer who tangled with our joss.@@@@1@14@@oe@1-12-2014
41709051@cr09@formal@none@1@S@A couple of years back, I occupied a Village apartment whose outer staircase contained the type of niche called a "coffin turn".@@@@1@22@@oe@1-12-2014
41709052@cr09@formal@none@1@S@In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41709053@cr09@formal@none@1@S@After a while, we became aware that the money was disappearing as fast as we replenished it.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41709054@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Our suspicions eventually centered, by the process of elimination, on a grocer's boy, a thoroughly bad hat, who delivered cartons to the people overhead.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41709055@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The more I probed into this young man's activities and character, the less savory I found him.@@@@1@17@@oe@1-12-2014
41709056@cr09@formal@none@1@S@I learned, for example, that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and, in winter, of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41709057@cr09@formal@none@1@S@His energy was prodigious; sometimes he would be up before dawn, clad as a garbage collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us, and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar butts against their paws.@@@@1@44@@oe@1-12-2014
41709058@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Evenings, he was frequently to be seen at restaurants like Enrico & Paglieri's or Peter's Backyard drunkenly donning ladies' hats and singing "O Sole Mio".@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41709059@cr09@formal@none@1@S@In short, and to borrow an arboreal phrase, slash timber.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41709060@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Well, the odious little toad went along chivying animals and humans who couldn't retaliate, and in due course, as was inevitable, overreached himself.@@@@1@23@@oe@1-12-2014
41709061@cr09@formal@none@1@S@One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.@@@@1@25@@oe@1-12-2014
41709062@cr09@formal@none@1@S@"Now he's bought it", said my wife contentedly.@@@@1@8@@oe@1-12-2014
41709063@cr09@formal@none@1@S@"No divinity will hold still for that.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41709064@cr09@formal@none@1@S@He's really asking for it".@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41709065@cr09@formal@none@1@S@And how right she was.@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41709066@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The next time we saw him, he was a changed person; he had aged thirty years, and his face, the color of tallow, was crisscrossed with wrinkles, as though it had been wrapped in chicken wire.@@@@1@36@@oe@1-12-2014
41709067@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Some sort of nemesis was haunting his footsteps, he told us in a quavering voice -- either an ape specter or Abe Spector, a process-server, we couldn't determine which.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41709068@cr09@formal@none@1@S@His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.@@@@1@24@@oe@1-12-2014
41709069@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The grocery the youth worked for soon tired of his depressing effect on customers, most of whom were sufficiently neurotic without the threat of incubi, and let him go.@@@@1@29@@oe@1-12-2014
41709070@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The beautiful, the satisfying part of his disintegration, however, was the masterly way the Buddha polished him off.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41709071@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Reduced to beggary, he at last got a job as office boy to a television producer.@@@@1@16@@oe@1-12-2014
41709072@cr09@formal@none@1@S@His hubris, deficiency of taste, and sadism carried him straightaway to the top.@@@@1@13@@oe@1-12-2014
41709073@cr09@formal@none@1@S@He evolved programs that plumbed new depths of bathos and besmirched whole networks, and quickly superseded his boss.@@@@1@18@@oe@1-12-2014
41709074@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Not long ago, I rode down with him in an elevator in Radio City; he was talking to himself thirteen to the dozen and smoking two cigars at once, clearly a man in extremis.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41709075@cr09@formal@none@1@S@"See that guy"? The operator asked pityingly.@@@@1@7@@oe@1-12-2014
41709076@cr09@formal@none@1@S@"I wouldn't be in his shoes for all the rice in China.@@@@1@12@@oe@1-12-2014
41709077@cr09@formal@none@1@S@There's some kind of a nemesis haunting his footsteps".@@@@1@9@@oe@1-12-2014
41709078@cr09@formal@none@1@S@However one looks at it, therefore, I'd say that your horoscope for this autumn is the reverse of rosy.@@@@1@19@@oe@1-12-2014
41709079@cr09@formal@none@1@S@The inventory you acquired from me isn't going to be easy to move; you can't very well sidle up to people on the street and ask if they want to buy a hot Bodhisattva.@@@@1@34@@oe@1-12-2014
41709080@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Additionally, since you're going to be hors de combat pretty soon with sprue, yaws, Delhi boil, the Granville wilt, liver fluke, bilharziasis, and a host of other complications of the hex you've aroused, you mustn't expect to be lionized socially.@@@@1@40@@oe@1-12-2014
41709081@cr09@formal@none@1@S@My advice, if you live long enough to continue your vocation, is that the next time you're attracted by the exotic, pass it up -- it's nothing but a headache.@@@@1@30@@oe@1-12-2014
41709082@cr09@formal@none@1@S@As you can count on me to do the same.@@@@1@10@@oe@1-12-2014
41709083@cr09@formal@none@1@S@Compassionately yours, S. J. Perelman@@@@1@5@@oe@1-12-2014
41709084@cr09@formal@none@1@S@revulsion in the desert@@@@1@4@@oe@1-12-2014
41709085@cr09@formal@none@1@S@the doors of the D train slid shut, and as I dropped into a seat and, exhaling, looked up across the aisle, the whole aviary in my head burst into song.@@@@1@31@@oe@1-12-2014
41709086@cr09@formal@none@1@S@She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.@@@@1@46@@oe@1-12-2014
41709087@cr09@formal@none@1@S@From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.@@@@1@21@@oe@1-12-2014