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The God Seeker By Sinclair Lewia
Synopsis: Aaron Gadd's brother Elijah shows up in ploneer ers, and yet you want to squeeze St. Paul asking Aaron to do two dificult things: First, unionize [out one of the best neighbors and| the men who work for him in the building trades; second, help workers that ever came here, just run Canada_a¥ an agent of the Underground because you've been simple Aaron and Selene have been happy and ‘enough to believe the word of prosperous citizens, even though Selene’s dreaded father, Caesar some mudheel that all the darkies Lanark, has bought a controlling interest fn their building firm. are just animals—yes, by God, year 1855. Now conclude the story— {after you've, seen Harry ‘Oldham u CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR handle a trowel! - BY 1855 the city of St. Paul had a population of 47 hundred,| “Boys, this evening ould be the imes as great as when Aaron had seen it seven years before. real beginning of Minnesota his1 he was aware of the whole territory, which was to become a tory. This could-be the first day in put up buildings in St. Anthony and Minne- and“ the heavenly light. Let's apolis some day to unite beside the power-giving falls, and in St.\make history—Ilet's honor our-
Claud Sad. Wiens. He saw the tall Red River carts, full of furs, y ing prairie from| Cvety from the driving terror.
St. Paul was still, for all its
selves by honoring Harry OldThere was. large applause; too large, Aaron thought, too deri-
room so shadowily. Mr. L te tried to bully the crowd, re .was Oldham? Huh? They ought to be ashamed to hide a bloodthirsty and rebellious ape! He would have them all arrested-—didin’ and abettin’ a | thievish scoundrel who would | rape all their women . . . Nobody answered a word. Their faces were still, Aaron kept starting to rise, but Selene had her hand strong on his arm and she muttered, “Keep still, darling. You'll say too much. Dry up!” Haufschnell tiptoed back into the room, looking sly, and took the center. He said, clearly and cheerily, “Our sick brother that
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growth, only a planiess windfall steered his two-seated cutter, With give or too mechanical, pi only Plasiets Wi alll re nickel gorgons’ heads dec- like the was threatened so bad by the pox os Came In Hom abu: Mabe orating the dashboard, back inta|jooked about, embarrassed. There camps to get drunk in 10 lan-|!oWn. His son Al—Ethan Allen—|yere no empty chairs, and no one » = = , and the sidewalk on Third at by him, and in the back were|m,yed, He sat on a box beside
guages Bt. was littered with cards from gambling houses. It was in 1855 that the Gadde’ second child, Cordelia, was born. The event was a success. Selene was stronger now: and given to running about afternoons for coffee and conferences on nursing. When the - Mississippl was| frozen, they all skated on it; Se-| lene in sealskin basque and muff, with Ethan Allen, a solemn, sec-| retive, inquiring boy-of 5, concealed in a 10-foot red muffler, and Aaron in fur-trimmed frogged jacket and high hat and curly skates, pushing Cordelia, like a woods rabbit, in a sled with a gondola prow. i
applause of cynical voters. He is now all safe!” They cheered.
SLAVE-CHASER Ludgate, Selene and a bundle covered with Sélene who gripped his hand. roared, “You ain't heard Lh a a buffalo robe. | The Big Swede drawled, “Brud-| of this!” and swaggered out, They were home—they drove gers of the St. Paul Building-! followed by Mr. Lopper, who up to the solemn brown-and- workers’ Fraternity and Union, | seemed unhappy over the heavy white portico of their house. you have been addressed by a Mr. stare of his fellow-townsmen. Selene and Al skipped out of the Gadd. Vot is your pleasure?” The Big Swede ordered an apcutter, the picture of carelessly Fone : prentice, “Sonny, see if that fellow prosperous mother and little boy,| BROTHER HAUFSCHNELL,|is out there, hanging around.” but there was nothing careless in . The bo e back ffawin, , | expert paper-hanger and plaster-| The boy came. guffawing, the quick looks they took to left | “Him and Mister Lopper are and right and among the cedars er, Who had been born on & pile. ping down Third Street, in front. .3 jot sugar beets in Bavaria, rose to headed for Tennessee.” A'right!” Selene snapped. offer, “I move you, Brothers, that| The Big Swede ruled, “Brother Aaron sprang now to the back) yieore pe asked to‘remove them. Haufschnell will now report.” of the cutter, lifted the buffalo x Said Haufschnell, “I hustled to! robe, growled, “A'right. Quick,|Se!ves, and we proceed to vote . o...4 Tattam's. By now, him Friend.” on do we strike against making onq Harry Oldham are halfway Selene was holding the front our honored crafts ridiculous bY | to the North Pole, on the door of the house open. A figure being forced to work with men| peverénd's mare. I'd like to see
“cluding Aaron, when in 1855 the ment.
And it was in 1855 that. they slipped from the back of the | moved into their second house and cutter and flitted in ghostly Seth and Aunt Lou thriftily took stealth up the steps, inside. their old one. | Their guest this time was a “80 (tall, rather pale Negro with the THE NEW MANSION was no/molded strong hands of a craftsshow place, but the Press was of man. opinion that it “added a new note oo 88 of long-settled solidity and dig-| AARON said gravely, “Welnity to our booming city.” It was come, friend. You are safe. But square, with four pillars, like a/I think it would be advisable if small-sized Greek temple. In the YOU stayed a day or so in your parlor there were guaranteed Jon {T00EE- 1D his ay. II’ bring you rted French tapestries ol5 . Parbleized iron fireplace, 0 *| They conducted the fugitive to
After treating it lightly. the Big their principal guest-room, a fab-| Swede decided that their union ulous warm apartment with thick
d carpets. was really meant to be taken se-|"*% ry 9 | riously. Like a swig of wine, Cap'n?
- Aaron suggested. It was a shock to the firm, In-| The Negro said with astonish“I- don't know, sir. I've union demanded that if workers read about it, but I've never in should be injured on the job, they my life tasted any.’ should receive care and compensa-| “Might as well start... . . Were tion. {you a houseman?” 2 Lanark and Seth said that! “I worked in the flelds as a they certainly were not to blame boy, sir, but I'm a trained brickif lunatics insisted on throwing layer. My name is Henry Oldthemselves into saws and off wet ham.” third-story roofs. The men| “That's the caper, Mr. Oldham! threatened an unAmerican meas-|I have a building firm—and you ure known as a strike, and a have a job, laying bricks at two parading with banners denounc-|and a quarter—" ing the kind firm that had| The man was sobbing. ; brought them up at its corporate] Starting as soon. as you're breast. Seth and Lanark|rested up. ous screamed that such tricks would] AARON said to Al, “Every compel all responsible Northerni{ijme we run through a slave, I employers to join the South and think of how I used to go with campaign for the admission of my father when he smuggled slaves to every state of the Union. 'em, 25 years ago—a quarter of Blaves did not carry banners. ‘a century!” Aaron was perversely tickled. | Al was fascinated. “Am I like He had for so long now been so|/you were then?” respectable; the most adventurous| “Maybe you're a little cleaner.” thing he had done in months had| “Yes. I was scared of my been to skate with the baby's father. Are you scared of me?” sl t delighted his eccentricity| Al giggled. ” . if not his reason to inform Seth| Aaron pondered, “He didn’t and Lanark, “If they go on strike, | Want as many things as I do, but I'l go out with them. And 1|maybe he wanted ‘em harder.’ can see how some day there might| ‘hat did Grampa want?
| “To be let alone! But I like be a state law making us pay ' : injured workers.” |people. That's an important dif ~
"ow iference.”
THE STRIKE was won before | HENRY OLDHAM was a
it was called, and Seth was sick smooth bricklayer. When he had from unrequited love of 20 per pyt Oldham to work, Aaron had cent profits and Lanark chuckled not thought of consulting the at the whole business, and Aaron pie Swede, president of their
like monkeys!” {
Then they all gasped as Selene
| sprang up and spoke, boldly, yet
pleadingly, her thin hands ploring at her breast. They were all plain people, she said. She had been a hotel waitress and a good one. She herself was half-Sioux, and she spoke for the Indians, the Africans, the Orientals. She wound up, “ dham is my friend! Please!” Someone banged the door and came in.
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He was a square-faced, darkfaced man with a long black coat and’ a. wide black hat, and with him was a weedy town loafer and drunkard named Lopper. = The union meeting started while the stranger stated, “My name is Ebenezer Ludgate, from Tennessee. I have information that a runaway slave of mine, calls himself Henry Oldham, is hiding here in town, and some of you gentlemen know where he is. I want him, and I call upon you all in the sacred name of the law to assist me.” There was a curious flutter through the meeting, a feeling of danger and anger which could not be placed. Mr. Ludgate laid hand on a pistol tucked into the band of his trousers.
horse in a race!” i$. time, the crowd's cheer sounded like a cloudburst on a tin roof. Haufschnell suggested, “I move we yoost forget that strike-vote, without any parliamentary mon-key-business!” . - # THE BIG SWEDE sald earnestly, from the chair, “Boys, I wish somebody should now make a motion to elect Mr. and Mrs. Gadd as honorary members of our union—where they belong! Not with no voting powers, you understand!” A veteran member was heard: “How about changing that motion and give them the names we like to think of them by-—Aaron and Selene!” “Propose motion, with that amendment!” yelled a bricklayer. “Amen!” said Bill Stone. The Big B8Swede announced, “Motion proposed seconded all favor signify usual manner motion carried—unanimous!” Selene was crying.
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