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Updated: May 13, 2025
Abner had his good days and his bad, and suffered the gentle tyranny of two or three solicitous women, and trusted that his sudden illness was making due public stir. The Readjusters, who had lately been asking after him, first heard of his plight from the press.
Some were in favor of paying the whole debt according to the agreement of 1871; others wished to reduce the interest rate; while the radicals wished to repudiate part of the debt and reduce the rate of interest upon the remainder. The last named faction, under the leadership of H.H. Riddleberger, organized a political party known as the Readjusters and in 1879 captured the Legislature.
"I came across some of your Readjusters the other day," observed Whyland, at the door of his hen-house a prodigal place with a dozen wired-in "runs" for a dozen different varieties of poultry: "Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks, Jerseys, Angoras, Hambletonians and what not," as Bond irresponsibly remarked. "They say they haven't been seeing much of you lately." Abner frowned.
The same newspapers that brought them further details of the adventures of the new Pence-Whyland Franchise in the Common Council informed them that Abner Joyce Abner, the one time foe of privilege lay ill in Leverett Whyland's own house. "He is no longer one of us," pronounced the Readjusters. "We disown him; we cast him off."
Abner suddenly saw himself as he was six months before: little likelihood then of his devoting an afternoon fruitful working hours of a crowded day to the demands of mere social observances. Which of his Readjusters would have had the time or the inclination to do as he had bound himself to do?
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