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"Say, if you'll give me a pencil and a pad of paper and about a half-day's time, I'll figure out for you what Henry Frick is worth in piasters and then you would have a fit. Why, in the land of ready money I'm only a third-rater, but I've got the four hundred million, all right." "But have you any social position?" asked the Governor-General. "Any rank? Any title?
Frick were waiting in the Executive Office. The President went over at once, sending word to Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, to join him. Judge Gary and Mr. Frick informed the President that a certain great firm in the New York financial district was upon the point of failure. This firm held a large quantity of the stock of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.
During that memorable time the Carnegie Steel Company organized a conspiracy to crush the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Henry Clay Frick, then Chairman of the Company, was intrusted with that democratic task. He lost no time in carrying out the policy of breaking the Union, the policy which he had so successfully practiced during his reign of terror in the coke regions.
Meanwhile Frick and the knot of boys had drawn off in astonishment and dismay at the failure of their plan to get Joel Pepper into the delightful expedition. "What was he doing?" demanded more than one boy. "I don't know," said Frick; "I couldn't get in." "Oh, now I know; he's got some secret," said Larry Keep, and he whirled around in vexation and snapped his fingers.
He couldn't help but show some suffering in his face, and Jasper, looking down to see its cause, found one arm hanging in a very peculiar manner. "You've hurt your arm," he said abruptly. "Frick, take care" to the boy, not at all particular what he took hold of if he only got a good grip. "Well, he shan't get away," said Frick decidedly, nipping up the end of the jacket nearest to him.
Even before the negotiations were broken up, Frick had arranged with the Pinkerton detective agency for 300 men to serve as guards. These men arrived at a station on the Ohio River below Pittsburgh near midnight of July 5.
He gloried in that fact, because it was the only force that made the discord between his spiritual longing and the world without at all bearable. Yet not Anarchism, as such, but the brutal slaughter of the eleven steel workers was the urge for Alexander Berkman's act, his attempt on the life of Henry Clay Frick.
They pranced, the horses did, shaking off the rain from their wet manes, around as much of the pond as was adapted to carriages, and Jasper and Frick got out and explored the rest, at least wherever Joel would be supposed to put into port, the boy holding up the arm that appeared not to be in its usual condition and going along, too, yet unable to add any information to his original statement.
So he gathered up one of the sprawling sets of fingers, and summarily marched him out. "Now I suppose the next thing in order is to race after Frick and those boys," observed old Mr. King, when the garden walk was attained. "Yes, sir," cried Joel, his black eyes alight and his feet dancing. "Well, be off with you."
"I've been " began Joel, glad enough to hop in; "why, where " as his black eyes fell on the boy in the corner. Frick had tried to swarm all over him, but Joel put out an unsteady hand. "I came to tell," said the boy, seeing he was expected to say something. "Oh, don't," cried Joel involuntarily; "'tisn't any matter; I don't care."
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