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Of course the kind of reasoning and the presuppositions described in the previous section will appeal to many readers as an illustration of excessive and unjustifiable fear lest the present order be disturbed a frenzied impulse to rush to the defense of our threatened institutions. Doubtless the Lusk report may quite properly be classed as a mere episode in war psychology.
"Father took me camping with him once, the time mother was off. Father gets awful drunk, too. I've quit Laramie for good." Lin sat up, and his hand gripped the boy. "Laramie!" said he, almost shouting it. "Yu' yu' is your name Lusk?" But the boy had shrunk from him instantly. "You're not going to take me home?" he piteously wailed. "Heaven and heavens!" murmured Lin McLean. "So you're her kid!"
These, they came to feel, were essentially of the same origin and traditions as themselves: just plain people who, however, had settled on the edge of the Big Town to make money and had made it. Pearson the elder was hardly more prepotent than Mr. Lusk, the banker at home. George himself was a dashing go-ahead: if he turned into a tired business-man his wife would know how to divert him.
Good-night, Mr. McLean; good-night, young Mr. "I'm Billy Lusk. I can ride Chalkeye's pinto that bucked Honey Wiggin." "I am sure you can ride finely, Mr. Lusk. Maybe you and I can take a ride together. Pleasant dreams!" She nodded and smiled to him, and slid her door to; and Billy considered it, remarking: "I like her. What makes her live in a car?"
With the progress of the war this situation changed; police and lawgivers began to interfere, and government officials and self-appointed guardians of the public weal began to denounce the "reds" and those suspected of "radical tendencies". The report of the Lusk Committee in the state of New York is perhaps the most imposing monument to this form of patriotic zeal.
And they looked in across heads and shoulders, inattentive to the caresses which the partners gave them. Mrs. Lusk was who it was, and she had taken poison here in their midst, after many dances and drinks. "Here's Doc!" cried an older one. "Here's Doc!" chorused the young blood that had come into this country since his day. And the throng caught up the words: "Here's Doc! here's Doc!"
The lady and Lusk remained in a heap, he foolish, tearful, and affectionate; she turned furiously at bay, his guardian angel, indifferent to the onlooking crowd, and hurling righteous defiance at Lin. "Don't yus dare lay yer finger on my husband, you sage-brush bigamist!" is what the marvelous female said. "Bigamist?" repeated Lin, dazed at this charge. "I ain't," he said to Ogden and me.
Barker looked at the woman and then at the husband. "I'll not say there was much chance for her," he said. "But any she had is gone through you. She'll die." "Nobody cares for me!" repeated the man. "He has learned my boy to scorn me." He ran out aimlessly, and away into the night, leaving peace in the room. "Stay sitting," said Barker to McLean, and went to Mrs. Lusk.
On the platform the man found his wife again. "Then I needn't to walk to Tommy's," she said. "And we'll eat as we travel. But you'll wait till I'm through with her." She made a gesture toward the station. "Why why what do you want with her. Don't you know who she is?" "It was me told you who she was, James Lusk.
After the beatings one of them would always leave the other forever. Thus was Sidney kept in small-talk until Mrs. Lusk one day really did not come back.
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