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But if it should turn out that he's right about the the dervish-dance ... it would be ... to put it mildly ... a horse on us, Al, wouldn't it?" I had no answer to this fanciful speech, and made none. Instead, I told him of Giddings's love-sickness. "The philosophy of Iago has broken down," said he, "and the boy is sort of short-circuited.
Antonia can take him in hand, and turn him out full of confidence; and with that, I'll answer for the lady. That can be fixed easy, and ought to be. Let's walk back." "What was it he said?" he asked, as we parted. "'Coma, cold forms, still hands, and extinction. Well, if the dervish-dance does wind up in that sort of thing, it's only a short-cut to the inevitable.
Then comes the time when the magnet ceases to draw, or the forestallers, having, in their greed, grasped more than they can keep, offer too much for the failing market, and all at once the thing stops, and the dervish-dance ends in coma, in cold forms and still hands, in misery and extinction!"
"I hope, General," said he, "that our little movement won't develop into a dervish-dance. Anyhow, you will join in our congratulations upon the completion of the railroad. You know you once did some railroad-building yourself, down there in Tennessee I know, for I was there. And I've always taken an interest in track-laying ever since."
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