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"I don't know," said Phelim; "but if I was bent on goin', the want of money wouldn't stop me as long as it could be found in the counthry. We had to do as bad for others, an' it can't be a greater sin to do that much for ourselves." "I'll think of it," said Appleton. "Any rate, it's in for a penny, in for a pound, wid me."
With him was a man named Appleton, who finally went over to New York and started in on his own account, founding the firm of D. Appleton and Company, which forty years thereafter was to publish to the world a book called, "Progress and Poverty." The worthy father of Henry George was a good Churchman, but not a businessman.
The clean-up was finished, and day by day they awaited the coming of Appleton and Sheridan, and of Father Lapre, of the Rice Lake Mission. The men of the crew set about to make the event one long to be remembered in the Northland. Flowers were unobtainable, but a frame in the form of a giant horseshoe was constructed and covered over with pine-cones.
The accordion ceased its complaint, men poured out of the lighted tents, Appleton moved cautiously out from cover. He stumbled forward through the knee-deep mud and moss, bearing slightly to his right, counting upon the confusion to mask his approach.
The years of 1827 and 1828 were marked by great depression in the commercial and manufacturing circles of the country, but Lowell had a good start, and her prosperity was assured. The Lowell Bank, the Appleton Company, and the Lowell Manufacturing Company, were established in 1828, the year the first ton of coal was brought to town. The coal was used for fuel in the law office of Samuel H. Mann.
"Appleton, don't look quite yet, but there's a woman just behind you whom I want you to see. I never before saw such a face and figure! They are simply perfection!" The above remarks were made by a young man, perhaps thirty years of age, to his companion, who, evidently, was somewhat his senior.
* For permission to use in this chapter material from the author's "The Story of the Cowboy," acknowledgment is made to D. Appleton & Co. If the influence of the cattle industry was paramount in the development of the frontier region found by the first railways, it should not be concluded that this upthrust of the southern cattle constituted the only contribution to the West of that day.
But now we know phy ye're here. We're pr-roud ye're wan av us." "What do you mean you know why I am here? I am here because I needed a job, and Appleton hired me." "Sure, lad. But, ye moind th' picture in yer pocket. 'Twas a woman." "But " "'Tis none av our business, an' 'tis nayther here nor there. Av there's a woman at th' bottom av ut, 'tis rayson enough phwativer happens." Bill laughed.
He was an Anglo-Saxon, far away from home, and the racial instinct and the home instinct were very strong upon him. With a tendency toward becoming a drunkard when he left home, John Appleton had not developed into one, either during his long experience as a soldier, or later in western Mexico. There was nothing unexplainable in this.
She had a Grecian nose, moreover, and her name was Violet. From all this it may be gathered that Eliza Appleton was by no means the extraordinary person she seemed. Beneath her false exterior she was shamelessly normal.
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