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Updated: May 8, 2025
And he stood there huge, menacing, against the light the dominant spirit, Roaring Dick of the woods, the incarnation of Necessity, the Man defending his Work, the Foreman! Once Morrison & Daly, of Saginaw, but then lumbering at Beeson Lake, lent some money to a man named Crothers, taking in return a mortgage on what was known as the Crothers Tract of white pine.
Crothers did her share filling in for Ethel the picture of Joe's old life, his work and dreams, and his first marriage. She told of several meetings with Amy. And all the time she kept watching, probing into this young second wife, skilfully raising Ethel's hopes, her vivid freshness and her youth, her hunger for a life she saw only in dazzling glimpses. "Do you want my advice about meeting Joe!
She was teaching the women to live decently, cook decently, and take a human interest in their children. Her charm, too, was having effect; more than Martin Morley had tested its potency and taken to holier ways. The Forge doctor often told Crothers that the She-Saw-Bones ought to be behind bars, but even in Lost Hollow you couldn't put a person behind bars for cleaning souls and homes.
Never had she felt more self-possessed or secure; her mind was clear and sane. If Crothers came out, she could outstrip him in a race for the boarding-house, and she meant to go to the boarding-house that night! Something within her guided her now; something was protecting her and saving her it was the Woman Cynthia was by and by to be!
But today as Ethel walked on through the Park, she smiled to herself expectantly. For Dwight had promised the next week to bring Sally Crothers to see her. "If only I can get on with her! She's my kind I know she is she's just exactly what I want. I don't want to be anything wild not Mrs. Grewe nor Fanny Carr. I want to be myself, that's all, and happy with my husband!"
For instance, there were rings in the floor that Crothers eyed with keen curiosity. They were anchored in the solid blocks of stone. "It's better than it might be, mate!" he argued optimistically. "They might 'ave gone and chained us up to those!" Arabia has some peculiarities, not all of them discreditable, which she does not share with any other country.
The right of free whiskey was one thing; the right of a man to utilize the children of the district was another! "He ain't my Smith Crothers!" Greeley inanely returned, feeling in a dazed way that he did not want to put in any claim for Crothers with those apparently innocent eyes upon him. "Well, I'll try to buy the Trouble Neck place from Smith Crothers at once.
For a moment only a madness seized Cynthia while hate and revenge had their way: "Let him die!" she muttered, setting her teeth close and gripping her hands; "let him!" But even as the words were spoken she was running back to the factory. She rushed into the smoke-filled hallway and, by the light of the fire, she saw Crothers lying full length where he had fallen.
"You are my agent, my my promoter, son, and, as such, you hold a responsible position at at good pay!" "Thank you, sir. I understand that and I am anxious to carry out your wishes. I am eager to get this thing running, not for you, sir, alone, but my people. Crothers seems hell-bound just now in frightening them into signing contracts for themselves and their children for years to come.
"Yes, and she wasn't your sister's kind. She was a college woman who wanted to be a great painter and when the painting petered out, she shut her jaw and said, 'Never mind. If I can't paint landscapes I can make them. And she took up landscape gardening. She married Burt Crothers soon after that, but she stuck to her work and in course of time it fitted in with her husband's.
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