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Updated: May 14, 2025
'Quarter after nine this morning I was passing by the Green wi' the straw-cart, when old Jan Trueman calls after me, 'Have 'ee heard the news? What news? says I. 'Why, says he, 'me an' my missus be going into the House this afternoon can't manage to pull along by ourselves any more, he says; 'an' we wants you an' your father to drop in soon after noon an' take a bite wi' us, for old times' sake.
"I have caused a most thorough canvas of the delegates to be made," says Trueman, "and they are almost unanimous in declaring that they will support me for the second place on the ticket. When sounded on the proposition of voting for a young man for the head of the ticket, they demur."
"A public funeral might prove dangerous to the Magnates," observes Metz. "Our modern rulers have profited by the experience of the ancients." Promptly at two o'clock Trueman arrives at the hall. The committee on resolutions present him with their petition. "I shall do all that I can to make the Company appreciate the condition in which you are placed.
Bending over the prostrate body Harvey Trueman weeps. It is the manly expression of deep emotion. "She died to save my life and the lives of the hundreds on the train. Was there ever a more noble sacrifice? It cannot be that she has given her life in vain. I must do the work she has begun. If I can prevent the miners from committing acts of violence it will atone for the loss of Sister Martha."
Having given Trueman the details of the Homestead affair, Metz explains the existing grievances of the miners of Wilkes-Barre as follows: "The question raised by the miners is not one for advanced wages; it is not one of reduced hours; it is not a demand for proper protection for themselves in the mines.
"Let us go and see the poor fellow," said Trueman; "it is but a morning's ride. If he is really so near his end it would be cruel to refuse him." "Not I, truly," said Fantom; "he deserves nothing at my hands but the halter he is likely to meet with. Such port is not to be had for money! and the spoons part of my new dozen!"
By a spontaneous decision Trueman is the name that comes to every lip. "Trueman! Trueman! You are the man to lead us." The cry "Trueman!" sweeps through the crowd. It rises in an acclaim the like of which has never been heard before. Men rush toward the orator and pick him off his feet.
Again they stand at the elbow of the telegraph operator who is receiving the messages. "Chicago " then there was a break. "Trueman, have Trueman come to the instrument. Answer. Is Trueman at your elbow?" This message is sent by the operator at headquarters. He has indicated that it is a private message and only the word Chicago is written.
In the meanwhile Major Trueman invited the "great men" to a parley. When five of them came out, he charged them with recent murders in Maryland. The Indians placed the blame on prowling bands of Senecas. This was an obvious lie, for Susquehannocks had been seen wearing the clothing of some of the murdered whites, and raiding parties had come directly to the fort, their canoes laden with beef.
Would it be something to eat? Oh, if it were only some shoes! Perhaps he did not notice that she had none? Gerty resolved to go for her milk in season to be back before it was time to light the lamp, so that nothing should prevent her seeing him. The day seemed very long, but darkness came at last; and with it came True or rather Trueman Flint, for that was the lamplighter's name.
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