Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — Page 2

THE CONQUEST of CANAAN

By BOOTH TARKINGTON

Author of "Cherry," "Monsieur Besucaire." Eta. I COPYRIGHT. 1909. BY HARPER D BROTHERS

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Chapter I—Eugene Bantry. a Canaan (Ind.,) young man, who liaa been eaat to college, return* home and astounds the native* by the gorgeousness of hi* raiment. Hi* stepbrother. Joe Loudln, 1* characterized by the aged male gossip* who dally aaaemble at the National House for argument a* the good for nothing associate of doubtful character*. II Eugene's appearance has a pronounced effect upon Mamie Pike, whose father. Judge Pike, is the wealthiest and most prominent citizen of Canaan. Joe worships Mamie from afar. Eugene interferes in a snow tight between Joe and his hoidcnlsh and very poor girl friend, Artel Taber, who 1* worsted. Ariel hotly resent* the interference and slaps Eugene, who seqds her home. Ill—Ariel, an becomingly attired, attends Mamie Pike’s ball. IV—Joe, concealed behind some plants on the Pike veranda, watches hungrily for a glimpse of Minnie. Ariel is ignored by moat of the guests. Ariel discovers Joe, aut shortly afterward, learning that her uncle, Jonas Tabor, ha* died suddenly, leaves. The Daily Tocsin ol the next day tells of Joe's discovery on the Pike veranda and of his pursuit and escape therefrom. It also refers to wounds in the head of himself and of'Norbert FUtcroft, who detected him. Joe retires to the “Beach,” a low resort kept by his friend, Mike Sheehan, who dresses his wound. VI Joe leaves Mike's place. He visits Ariel Tabor, who, by the death of her Uncle Jonas, has become rich. She wishes Joe to accompany her and her grandfather to Paris. Joe refuses and leaves Canaan to avoid arrest for the trouble at Judge Pike’s. Vll—Joe is heard from two years later as a ticket seller for a side show. Eugene Bantry also meets him seven years later in a low resort in New York, but wisely refrains from advertising it. VIII—Joe returns to Canaan a full-fledged lawyer. Even his father ignores kim, and he Is refused accommodations at the National house. IX—Joe is welcomed at the "Beach,” and "Happy Fear,” one of Joe’s admirers, seriously assualts Nashville Cory, a detractor. At the end of Happy's term in prison he visits Joe, who now has a law office on the square, with a living room adjoining. Joe has a large practice, principally among the lower classes, •nd is frequently attacked by the Tocsin. Joe begins, in his lonliness, ttCyleid to the seductions of the bottle. Bantry's engagment to Mamie Pike is announced. Bantry is now associate editor of the Tocsin, owned by Judge Pike X—Joe awakens after a “bad night" with the words, "Remember, across the Main street bridge at noon.” ringing in his ear*. He goes there and is presently joined by the most beautifully dressed girl he has ever seen. Xl—She turns out to be Ariel Tabor, arrived in Canaan the night before from her long sojourn in Paris. She has seen Joe as she alighted from the train and, realizing his condition, had escorted him home after exacting from him a promise to meet her the next day (Sundav) across the Main street bridge at noon. Joe learns that Ariel is stopping at Judge Pike’s home, the judge having entire charge of tier money, etc. XII— Eugene Bantry, although engaged to Mamie, Is much smitten with Ariel's charms. Judge Pike tries his usual blustering tactics with Ariel, but subsides When she tells him that she shall ask him to turn over the care of her to Joe Louden. XI 11—Ariel holds a sort of informal reception at Judge Piite’Band learns that the "tough element" is talking of running Joe for mayor. XlV—Happy Fear and Nashville Cory have more trouble. Joe corners Happy and sends Claudine (Mrs. Fear) to meet him. XV—Ariel visits Joe’s office to put her affairs in his hands. While there Happy Fear rushes in and announces that he lias killed Nashville Cory in self defense. Joe makeß Happy give himself up. XVI— Pike admitß to Ariel that she, too. has begun to believe in Joe Louden, XVII— The Tocsin makes virulent attacks on Joe Louden and Hapyy Fear. Mike Sheehan hints that he may shortly have some Interesting secrets to divulge in connection with Judge Pike's affairs. XVIII—The Tocsin continues its attacks. Judge Pike informs Ariel that her supposed fortune consists of valueless securities. XlX—Aged Eskew Arp. one of the band of National House gossips and erstwhile trad.ucers of Joe, rescues Joe's dog front a miserable death at the hands of the townspeople and then collapses. XX. Arp is carried in Judge Pike’s-carriage to Ariel's house. With him are Ariel. Mamie Pike ami Joe Louden. Arp compels several of his National House cronies who call to shake hands with Joe Louden XX I -Eugene Bantry repents of his treatment of his stepbrother, Joe Louden, resigns from the Tocsin and leaves Canaan Korbert Flitcroft tells how Judge Pike bought Granger Gas stocks with Ariel’s money, but took that stock for himself. substituting for it wcrth'e«« distillery securities. Eskew Arp dies. XXll—Arp's money is left to Joe Joe Is selected at a political confab as a candidate for mayor. Mike ■Sheehan discloses that the immaculate Judge Pike owns the property known a- the •'Beach.” a resort conducted by Mike. XXIII. By a magnificent display of courage Joe staves off personal- violence at the close of the first day of die trial of Happy Fear.

These best of th<. s- who gartl ere 1 ominously about the courthouse and its purlieus were the young farmers and field hands, artisans and clerks, one of the latter being a pimply faced young man (lately from tile doctor’s hands), who limped and would limp for the rest of his life, lie who, of all men held the memory of EsUetv Arp in least respect and was burns-Cy desirous to revenge himself upon the living.

The worst were of that mystifying, embryonie. semi-rowdy type, the Am *rIcan voyou. 111 the pr.niuetion of which Canaan and her siator towns cvery.where over the country are prolific-* the young man, youth, hoy perhaps, creature of munelesa age, ■ whose clothes are like those of a brnkeman out of work, but who is not a brakeman in or out of work; wearing the blaek soft hat tilted forward to shelter —as a counter does the contempt of a clerk—that expression which the face does not dare wear quite in the open, asserting the possession of supreme capacity in wit, strength, dexterity and amours; the dirty handkerchief under the collar, the short black coat, always double breasted; eyelids Booty, one cheek always bulged, the forehead speckled, the lips cracked, horrible teeth and the affectation of possessing secret Information upon all matters of the universe, above all, the Instinct of finding the shortest way to any scene of official interest to the policeman, fireman or ambulance surgeon—a singular being, not professionally criminal, tough histrionically rather than really, full of its own argot of brag, hysterical when crossed, timid through great Ignorance and therefore dangerous. It furnishes not the leaders, but the mass of mobs, and It springs up at times of crisis from heaven knows where. You might have driven through all the streets of Canaan a week before the trial and have Been four or five such fellows, but from the day of its beginning the Bquare was full of them, dingy shuttlecocks batted up into view by the Tocsin. They kept the air whirring with their

noise. The news of that sitting -vhich had caused the squire, Flitcroft and Peter Bradbury to risk the court’s displeasure wus greeted outside with loud and vehement disfavor, and when, at noon, the jurynieu were marshaled out to cross the yard to the Natiouul House for dinner a large crowd followed and surrounded them until they reached the doors of the hotel. “Don’t let Lawyer Loudeu bamboozle you!” “Ilaug him!” “Tar®and feathers fer ye es ye don’t hang him!” These were the mildest threats, and Joe Louden, watching from an upper window of the courthouse, observed with a troubled eye how certain of the jury shrank from the pressure of the throng, how the cheeks of others showed sudden pallor. Sometimes “public sentiment” has done evil things to those who hare not shared It, and Joe knew how rare a thing is a jury which dares to stand square against a town like Canaan aroused. The end of that afternoon’s session saw another point marked for the defense. Joe hud put the defendant on the stand, and the little man had proved an excellent witness. During his life be had beeu many things—many things disreputable; high standards were not brightly illumined for him in the beginning of the night march which his life had been. He had been a tramp, afterward a petty gambler, but his great motive had finally come to be the intention to do what Joe told him to do—that, and to keep Claudine as straight as lie could. Iu a measure these were the two things that had brought him to the pass in which he now stood, his loyalty to Joe and his resentment of whatever tampered with Cluudine’s straightness. He was submissive to the consequences: he was still loyal, And now Joe asked him to tell "just what happened,” and Happy olicyed with crystal clearness. Throughout the long, tricky cross examination Jba continued to tell “just what happened” with a plaintive truthfulness uol to be imitated, and throughout it Joe guarded him from pitfalls (for lawyers in their search after truth are conqielled by the exigencies of their profession to make pitfalls even for the honest) and gave him, by various devices, time to remember, though not to think, and made the words “come right” in his month, so that before the sitting was over a disquieting rumor ran through the waiting crowd in the corridors, across tlie square and over the town that the case was surely going “Louden’s way.” This was also the opinion of a looker-on in Canaan—a ferret faced counselor of corporations who, called to “consultation with the eminent Buekalew (nephew of the squire), had afterward spent an hour in his company at the trial. “It’s going that young fellow Louden’s way.” said the stranger. “You say he's a shyster, but"— “Well," admitted Buekalew, with some reluctance, “I don’t mean that exactly. I’ve got an old uncle who seems lately to think lie’s a great mau." “I'll take your uncle’s word for It,” returned the other, smiling. “I think he’ll-go pretty far." They had come to the flight of steps which descended to the yard, atid the visitor, looking down upon the angry crowd, added, "If they don’t kill him!" Joe himself was anxious concerning no such matter. He shook hands with Happy at the end of the sitting, bidding him be of gooji elieer, and when the little man had marched away under n strong guard began to gather and sort his papers at a desk inside the bar. Tills took him peril aps five minutes, ahd when lie had finished there were only three people left in the room —a clerk, a negro janitor with a broom and the darky friend who always hopefully accompanies a colored man holding high public office. These two approvingly greeted the young lawyer, tlie janitor handing him a note from Norbert Flitcroft and the friend me-

chanleally “borrowing" a quarter from him as be opened tjie envelope. “I'll he roun' yo’ way to git a box o’ se-gahs,” laughed the friend, “soon ez de campaign open up good, Dey all goin' vote ye’ way down on de levee bank, but dey sho’ expecks to git to smoke a little ’fo’ leckshun day! We knows who's ow frien’!” Norbert’s missive was lengthy and absorbing, .loe went on his way, perusing it with profound attention, but as lie descended the stairway to the floor below a loud burst of angry shouting outside the building caused him to hasten toward the big front doors which faced Main street. The doors opened upon an imposing vesjibuie, from which a handsome flight of stone steps, protected by a marble balustrade, led to the ground. Standing at the top of these steps and leaning over the balustrade, he bad a clear view of half the yard. No one was near him. Everybody was running in the opposite direction, toward that corner of the yard occupied by the Jail, the crowd centering upon an agitated whirlpool of men which moved slowly toward a door in the high wall that inclosed the building, and Joe saw that Happy Fear’s guards, conducting the prisoner back to his cell, were being Jostled and rushed. The. distance they bad made was short, but as they reached the door the Dressure Upon

taem increased dangerously. Clubs rose in the air, bats .flew, the whirlpool heaved tumultuously, and the steel door clanged. ( Happy Fear was safe Inside, but the j ostlers were outside, baffled, ugly and stirred with the passion that changes a crowd Into a mob. _• T Then some of them caught sight of Joe as he stood alone at the top of the steps, and a great shout of rage aud exultation arose. For a moment or two he did not see his danger. At the clang of the door big eyes, caught by the gleam of a wide white hat, had turned toward the street, and he was somewhat fixedly watching Mr. Ladew extricate Ariel and her Hged and indignant escorts from an overflow of the crowd In which they had Seen enught. But a voice warned him, the wild piping of a newsboy who had climbed Into a tree near by. “Joe Louden,” he screumed, “look out!” With a muffled roar the crowd surged back from the jail and turned toward the steps. “Tar and feather him!” “Take him over to the river and throw him In!” “Drown him!” “Hang him!” Then a thing happened which was dramatic enough iu Its Inception, but almost ludicrous In Its effect. Joe walked quietly down the steps and toward the advancing mob with his head cocked to one side, one eyebrow lifted and one corner of his mouth drawn down in a faintly distorted smile.

He went straight toward the yelling forerunners, with only a small bundle of papers in his hands, and then, while the nonpartisan spectators held their breath, expecting the shock of contact, straight on through them. A number of the bulge cheeked formed the scattering van of these forerunners, charging with hoarse and cruel shrieks of triumph. The first, apparently about to tear Joseph Louden to pieces, changed countenance at arm’s length, swerved violently and with the loud cry, “Head him off!” dashed on up the stone steps. The mau next behind him followed his lead, with the same shout, strategy and haste. Then the others of this advance attack, finding themselves confronting the quiet man, who kept his even pace and showed no intention of turning aside for them, turned suddenly aside for him and. taking the cue from the first, pur sued their way. bellowing: “Head him off! Head him off!” until there were a dozen and more rowdyish men and youths upon tlie steps, their eyes blazing with fury, menacing Louden’s back with frightful gestures across the marble balustrade as they hysterically bleated the chorus. “Head him off!” Whether or not Joe could have walked through the entire mob as he had walked through these is a matter for speculation. It was believed in Canaan he could. Already a gust of mirth began to sweep over the sterner spirits ns they paused to marvel no less at the disconcerting advance of the lawyer than at the. spectacle presented by the intrepid daredevils upon the steps, a kind of lane actually opening before the young man as he walked steadily on. And when Mr. Sheehan, leading half it dozen huge men from the Farbach brewery, unceremoniously shouldered a way through the mob to Joe's ‘ side, reaching him where the press was thickest, it is a question If the services of his detachment were needed. The laughter increased. It became voluminous. Homeric salvos shook the air. And never one of the fire eaters upon th« steps lived long enough to live down the hateful cry of that day, “Head him off!" which was to become a catchward cm the streets, a taunt more stinging than any devised by deliberate invention, an insult bitterer than the ancestral doubt, a fighting word and the great historical joke of Canaan, never omitted in after days when the tale was told how Joe Louden took that short walk across the courthouse yard which made him mayor of Canaan.

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