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Updated: May 28, 2025
He sent Henry Vail he always sent Henry Vail on his missions of mercy to find out where Perdue sold his articles, and I have no doubt the price of each article was doubled, at Vanderhuyn's expense. And that mention of Henry Vail reminds me that I can not tell this story rightly unless I let you know who he was. A distant relation of Charley's, I believe.
He had learned from Vail how easy it is for reformers to throw their influence on the wrong side in such a life-and-death struggle as that of Perdue's. In the year that followed he had to forgive him many more than seven times. But Perdue grew stronger in the sunlight of Vanderhuyn's steady friendship. They had a great time opening the club on New-Year's Eve.
It was about the first of December, four years ago, that Harry Vail, grown younger and fresher in two years of toil among the poor glorified he seemed by the tenderness of his sympathies and the nobleness of his aims it was four years ago that Harry came into Charley Vanderhuyn's rooms for his regular monthly allotment.
His manners hung about him loosely; Vanderhuyn's were part of himself. When Vail came to the Hasheesh Club for the first time it was on the occasion of Charley's majority dinner.
On this evening, about the first of December, four years ago, he sat in Charley's cozy bedroom and listened to Vanderhuyn's stories of a life antipodal to the life he was accustomed to see for the antipodes do not live round the world, but round the first street corner; he listened and laughed at the graphic and eloquent and grotesque pictures that Charley drew for him till nearly midnight, and then got ready to go back to his home, among the noisy saloons of Huckleberry Street.
Such a life for a scholar! But he always declared that digging out Greek and Hebrew roots was not half so fascinating a work as digging out human souls from the filth of Huckleberry Street. Of course he did not want for money to carry on his operations. Charley Vanderhuyn's investments brought large returns, and Charley knew how to give.
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