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Updated: June 18, 2025
I heard the name of Kurtz pronounced, then the words, 'take advantage of this unfortunate accident. One of the men was the manager. I wished him a good evening. 'Did you ever see anything like it eh? it is incredible, he said, and walked off. The other man remained. He was a first-class agent, young, gentlemanly, a bit reserved, with a forked little beard and a hooked nose.
Kurtz did as directed, announcing, "Fifty-five hundred and five dollars." "Pikers!" exclaimed the new salesman; then he began laboriously to compute twenty-five per cent. of the sum, using as a pad a bolt of expensive white-silk vest material. "Thirteen hundred and seventy- six dollars and twenty-five cents is my blackmail, Kurtz.
This visitor informed me Kurtz's proper sphere ought to have been politics 'on the popular side. He had furry straight eyebrows, bristly hair cropped short, an eyeglass on a broad ribbon, and, becoming expansive, confessed his opinion that Kurtz really couldn't write a bit 'but heavens! how that man could talk. He electrified large meetings. He had faith don't you see? he had the faith.
'There are only private letters. He withdrew upon some threat of legal proceedings, and I saw him no more; but another fellow, calling himself Kurtz's cousin, appeared two days later, and was anxious to hear all the details about his dear relative's last moments. Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician.
Fourteen doctrinal articles were prepared by H. L. Baugher, B. Kurtz, and S. W. Harkey, containing, among other statements, also the following: "We believe that the Scriptures teach that God has given to man, as a natural gift, the power of choice, and that, whilst he is influenced in his volitions by motives, he always possesses the ability to choose the opposite of that which was the object of his choice.
But there is no disguising the fact, Mr. Kurtz has done more harm than good to the Company. He did not see the time was not ripe for vigorous action. Cautiously, cautiously that's my principle. We must be cautious yet. The district is closed to us for a time. Deplorable! Upon the whole, the trade will suffer. I don't deny there is a remarkable quantity of ivory mostly fossil.
I could see a little ivory coming out from there, and I had heard Mr. Kurtz was in there. I had heard enough about it, too God knows! Yet somehow it didn't bring any image with it no more than if I had been told an angel or a fiend was in there. I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars.
Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence. Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last only at the very last.
Suddenly the manager's boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of scathing contempt "'Mistah Kurtz he dead. "All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much. There was a lamp in there light, don't you know and outside it was so beastly, beastly dark.
Hendrix left, saying there was nothing more he could do, and that the rest depended on the local physicians, and on the nurse. "Und ve vill do our duty!" ponderously exclaimed Dr. Kurtz. "You go off to dot bird race, Dom, und doan't vorry. Ve vill send der with-out-vire messages to you venever dere is anyt'ing to report. Go mit a light heart!"
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