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Updated: June 25, 2025
Never shall I forget, at the meeting of the Studd brothers, the audience being asked to stand up if they intended to try and follow Christ. It appeared a very sensible question to me, but I was amazed how hard I found it to stand up. At last one boy, out of a hundred or more in sailor rig, from an industrial or reformatory ship on the Thames, suddenly rose.
As he expected, he saw a head thrust out from the window where Studd Bradley and his friends had been. There was an hotel opposite the British Bank. He entered and waited. Bradley and one of his companions presently came in and seated themselves far back in the shadow, where they could watch the doorway of the bank. It was quite a half-hour before Shiel Crozier emerged from the bank.
I mean to say, fellows like Ronny and I and Dick Wimpole and Archie Studd and the rest of our lot, well, we all knew Jill and thought she was a topper and had danced with her here and there and seen her about and all that, and naturally we feel pretty strongly about the whole dashed business.
He noted, however, that the nod which Studd Bradley, the financier, gave him had in it an enigmatic something which puzzled him. Surely Bradley could not be prejudiced against him because of the evidence he had given.
When the D.A. gets you before the jury he'll do what he can to send you to the hot seat. "Well I'm gonna give you the straight of this, Professor. Like I said, I was giving a party to some friends of mine that night. Early in the evening I get into a studd game on Second Avenue and go broke, see? Cleaned, Professor. And here's this party comin' off with some good guys and nice gals comin'.
"If you want to so bad as that, John, you've got the chance, for he's up at the Sovereign Bank now. I seen him leave the Great Overland Railway Bureau ten minutes ago and get away quick to the bank." "What's he got on at the bank and the railway?" "Some big deal, I guess. I've seen him with Studd Bradley." "The Great North Trust Company boss?"
My head was less dizzy now, and I had a momentary gladness that at any rate we had done part of what we set out to do. "Clearwater Gap!" I cried. "Except for old Studd, we are the first Christians to stand on this watershed." Below us lay a swimming hollow of white mist, hiding I knew not what strange country. From the vales below I had marked the lie of the land on each side of the gap.
As he expected, he saw a head thrust out from the window where Studd Bradley and his friends had been. There was an hotel opposite the British Bank. He entered and waited. Bradley and one of his companions presently came in and seated themselves far back in the shadow, where they could watch the doorway of the bank. It was quite a half-hour before Shiel Crozier emerged from the bank.
In the short silence that followed, the quick-drawn breath of many excited and some agitated people could be heard. Among the latter were Mrs. Tynan and her daughter and Malachi Deely; among those who held their breath in suspense were John Sibley, Studd Bradley the financier, and the Young Doctor.
But looking more to the north, I saw where the vale opened, and then I had a vision worthy of the name by which Studd had baptized it. An immense green pasture land ran out to the dim horizon.
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