The echoing note of a cornet-?-piston sounded from the deck above; it was joined by the rattle11 of a drum; and an energetic band swept into the strains of Zip Coon. The passengers emerged from supper and gathered on the main deck; the gayly lighted windows streamed in moving yellow bars over dark banks and fields; and they were raised or lowered on the pouring black tide of masoned locks. If it had not been for the infernal persistence13 of the band, Alexander Hulings would have been almost comfortable; but the music, at midnight, showed no signs of abating14. Money was collected, whisky distributed; a quadrille formed forward. Hulings could see the women's crinolines, the great sleeves and skirts, dipping and floating in a radiance of oil torches. He had a place in a solid bank of chairs about the outer rail, and sat huddled15 in his cape8. His misery16, as usual, increased with the night; the darkness was streaked17 with immaterial flashes, disjointed visions. He was infinitely18 weary, and faint from a hunger that he yet could not satisfy. A consequential19 male at his side, past middle age, with close whiskers and a mob of seals, addressed a commonplace to him; but he made no reply. The other regarded Hulings with an arrogant20 surprise, then turned a negligent21 back. From beyond came a dear, derisive22 peal23 of girlish laughter. He heard a name—Gisela—pronounced.
Alexander Hulings' erratic24 thoughts returned to iron. He wondered vaguely25 why James Claypole had never succeeded with Tubal Cain. Probably, like so many others, he was a drunkard. The man who had addressed him moved away—he was accompanied by a small party—and another took his vacant place.
"See who that was?" he asked Hulings. The latter shook his head morosely26. "Well, that," the first continued impressively, "is John Wooddrop."
Alexander Hulings had an uncertain memory of the name, connected with——
"Yes, sir—John Wooddrop, the Ironmaster. I reckon that man is the biggest—not only the richest but the biggest—man in the state. Thousands of acres, mile after mile; iron banks and furnaces and forges and mills; hundreds of men and women... all his. Like a European monarch27! Yes, sir; resembles that. Word's law—says 'Come here!' or 'Go there!' His daughter is with him too, it's clear she's got the old boy's spirit, and his lady. They get off at Harmony; own the valley; own everything about."
Harmony was the place where Hulings was to leave the canal; from there he must drive to Tubal Cain. The vicarious boastfulness of his neighbor stirred within him an inchoate28 antagonism29.
"There is one place near by he doesn't own," he stated sharply.
"Then it's no good," the other promptly30 replied. "If it was, Wooddrop would have it. It would be his or nothing—he'd see to that. His name is Me, or nobody."
Alexander Hulings' antagonism increased and illogically fastened on the Ironmaster. The other's character, as it had been stated, was precisely31 the quality that called to the surface his own stubborn will of self-assertion. It precipitated32 a condition in which he expanded, grew determined33, ruthless, cold.
He imagined himself, sick and almost moneyless and bound for Claypole's failure, opposed to John Wooddrop, and got a faint thrill from the fantastic vision. He had a recurrence34 of the conviction that he, too, was a strong man; and it tormented35 him with the bitter contrast between such an image and his actual present self. He laughed aloud, a thin, shaken giggle37, at his belief persisting in the face of such irrefutable proof of his failure. Nevertheless, it was firmly lodged38 in him, like a thorn pricking39 at his dissolution, gathering40 his scattered41 faculties42 into efforts of angry contempt at the laudation of others.
Veneada and Hallie Flower, he realized, were the only intimates he had gathered in a solitary43 and largely embittered44 existence. He had no instinctive45 humanity of feeling, and his observations, colored by his spleen, had not added to a small opinion of man at large. Always feeling himself to be a figure of supreme46 importance, he had never ceased to chafe47 at the small aspect he was obliged to exhibit. This mood had grown, through an uncomfortable sense of shame, to a perpetual disparagement48 of all other triumph and success.
Finally the band ceased its efforts, the oil lights burned dim, and a movement to the cabins proceeded, leaving him on a deserted49 deck. At last, utterly50 exhausted51, he went below in search of a berth. They hung four deep about the walls, partly curtained, while the floor of the cabin was filled with clothesracks, burdened with a miscellany of outer garments. One place only was empty—under the ceiling; and he made a difficult ascent52 to the narrow space. Sleep was an impossibility—a storm of hoarse53 breathing, muttering, and sleepy oaths dinned54 on his ears. The cabin, closed against the outer air, grew indescribably polluted. Any former torment36 of mind and body was minor55 compared to the dragging wakeful hours that followed; a dread56 of actual insanity57 seized him.
Almost at the first trace of dawn the cabin was awakened58 and filled with fragmentary dressing59. The deck and bar were occupied by men waiting for the appearance of the feminine passengers from their cabin forward, and breakfast. The day was warm and fine. The packet crossed a turgid river, at the mouths of other canal routes, and entered a wide pastoral valley.
Alexander Hulings sat facing a smaller, various river; at his back was a barrier of mountains, glossy60 with early laurel and rhododendron. His face was yellow and sunken, and his lips dry. John Wood-drop passed and repassed him, a girl, his daughter Gisela, on his arm. She wore an India muslin dress, wide with crinoline, embroidered61 in flowers of blue and green worsted, and a flapping rice-straw hat draped in blond lace. Her face was pointed62 and alert.
Once Hulings caught her glance, and he saw that her eyes seemed black and—and—impertinent.
An air of palpable satisfaction emanated63 from the Ironmaster. His eyes were dark too; and, more than impertinent, they held for Hulings an intolerable patronage64. John Wooddrop's foot trod the deck with a solid authority that increased the sick man's smoldering65 scorn. At dinner he had an actual encounter with the other. The table was filling rapidly; Alexander Hulings had taken a place when Wooddrop entered with his group and surveyed the seats that remained.
"I am going to ask you," he addressed Hulings in a deep voice, "to move over yonder. That will allow my family to surround me."
A sudden unreasonable66 determination not to move seized Hulings. He said nothing; he didn't turn his head nor disturb his position. John Wood-drop repeated his request in still more vibrant67 tones. Hulings did nothing. He was held in a silent rigidity68 of position.
"You, sir," Wooddrop pronounced loudly, "are deficient69 in the ordinary courtesies of travel! And note this, Mrs. Wooddrop,"—he turned to his wife—"I shall never again, in spite of Gisela's importunities, move by public conveyance70. The presence of individuals like this——"
Alexander Hulings rose and faced the older, infinitely more important man. His sunken eyes blazed with such a feverish71 passion that the other raised an involuntary palm.
"Individuals," he added, "painfully afflicted72." Suddenly Hulings' weakness betrayed him; he collapsed73 in his chair with a pounding heart and blurred74 vision. The incident receded75, became merged12 in the resumption of the commonplace clatter5 of dinner.
Once more on deck, Alexander Hulings was aware that he had appeared both inconsequential and ridiculous, two qualities supremely76 detestable to his pride; and this added to his bitterness toward the Ironmaster. He determined to extract satisfaction for his humiliation77. It was characteristic of Hulings that he saw himself essentially78 as John Wood-drop's equal; worldly circumstance had no power to impress him; he was superior to the slightest trace of the complacent79 inferiority exhibited by last night's casual informer.
The day waned80 monotonously81; half dazed with weariness he heard bursts of music; far, meaningless voices; the blowing of the packet horn. He didn't go down again into the cabin to sleep, but stayed wrapped in his cloak in a chair. He slept through the dawn and woke only at the full activity of breakfast. Past noon the boat tied up at Harmony. The Wooddrops departed with all the circumstance of worldly importance and in the stir of cracking whip and restive82, spirited horses. Alexander Hulings moved unobserved, with his trunk, to the bank.
Tubal Cain, he discovered, was still fifteen miles distant, and—he had not told James Claypole of his intended arrival—no conveyance was near by. A wagon83 drawn84 by six mules with gay bells and colored streamers and heavily loaded with limestone85 finally appeared, going north, on which Hulings secured passage.
The precarious86 road followed a wooded ridge87, with a vigorous stream on the right and a wall of hills beyond. The valley was largely uninhabited. Once they passed a solid, foursquare structure of stone, built against a hill, with clustered wooden sheds and a great wheel revolving89 under a smooth arc of water. A delicate white vapor90 trailed from the top of the masonry91, accompanied by rapid, clear flames.
"Blue Lump Furnace," the wagon driver briefly92 volunteered. "Belongs to Wooddrop. But that doesn't signify anything about here. Pretty near everything's his."
Alexander Hulings looked back, with an involuntary deep interest in the furnace. The word "iron" again vibrated, almost clanged, through his mind. It temporarily obliterated93 the fact that here was another evidence of the magnitude, the possessions, of John Wooddrop. He was consumed by a sudden anxiety to see James Claypole's forge. Why hadn't the fool persisted, succeeded?
"Tubal Cain's in there." The mules were stopped. "What there is of it! Four bits will be enough."
He was left beside his trunk on the roadside, clouded by the dust of the wagon's departure. Behind him, in the direction indicated, the ground, covered with underbrush, fell away to a glint of water and some obscure structures. Dragging his baggage he made his way down to a long wooden shed, the length facing him open on two covered hearths94, some dilapidated troughs, a suspended ponderous95 hammer resting on an anvil96, and a miscellaneous heap of rusting97 iron implements—long-jawed tongs98, hooked rods, sledges99, and broken castings. The hearths were cold; there was not a stir of life, of activity, anywhere.
Hulings left his trunk in a clearing and explored farther. Beyond a black heap of charcoal100, standing101 among trees, were two or three small stone dwellings102. The first was apparently104 empty, with some whitened sacks on a bare floor; but within a second he saw through the open doorway105 the lank106 figure of a man kneeling in prayer. His foot was on the sill; but the bowed figure, turned away, remained motionless.
Alexander Hulings hesitated, waiting for the prayer to reach a speedy termination. But the other, with upraised, quivering hands, remained so long on his knees that Hulings swung the door back impatiently. Even then an appreciable107 time elapsed before the man inside rose to his feet. He turned and moved forward, with an abstracted gaze in pale-blue eyes set in a face seamed and scored by time and disease. His expression was benevolent108; his voice warm and cordial.
"I am Alexander Hulings," that individual briefly stated; "and I suppose you're Claypole."
The latter's condition, he thought instantaneously, was entirely109 described by his appearance. James Claypole's person was as neglected as the forge. His stained breeches were engulfed110 in scarred leather boots, and a coarse black shirt was open on a gaunt chest.
His welcome left nothing to be desired. The dwelling103 into which he conducted Hulings consisted of a single room, with a small shed kitchen at the rear and two narrow chambers111 above. There was a pleasant absence of apology for the meager112 accommodations. James Claypole was an entirely unaffected and simple host.
The late April evening was warm; and after a supper, prepared by Claypole, of thick bacon, potatoes and saleratus biscuit, the two men sat against the outer wall of the house. On the left Hulings could see the end of the forge shed, with the inevitable113 water wheel hung in a channel cut from the dear stream. The stream wrinkled and whispered along spongy banks, and a flicker114 hammered on a resonant115 limb. Hulings stated negligently116 that he had arrived on the same packet with John Wood-drop, and Claypole retorted:
"A man lost in the world! I tried to wrestle117 with his spirit, but it was harder than the walls of Jericho."
His eyes glowed with fervor118. Hulings regarded him curiously119. A religious fanatic120! He asked:
"What's been the trouble with Tubal Cain? Other forges appear to flourish about here. This Wooddrop seems to have built a big thing with iron."
"Mammon!" Claypole stated. "Slag121; dross122! Not this, but the Eternal World." The other failed to comprehend, and he said so irritably123. "All that," Claypole specified124, waving toward the forge, "takes the thoughts from the Supreme Being. Eager for the Word, and a poor speller-out of the Book, you can't spend priceless hours shingling125 blooms. And then the men left, one after another, because I stopped pandering126 to their carnal appetites. No one can indulge in rum here, in a place of mine sealed to God."
"Do you mean that whisky was a part of their pay and that you held it back?" Alexander Hulings demanded curtly127. He was without the faintest sympathy for what he termed such arrant128 folly129.
"Yes, just that; a brawling130, froward crew. Wooddrop wanted to buy, but I wouldn't extend his wicked dominion131, satisfy fleshly lust88."
"It's a good forge, then?"
"None better! I built her mostly myself, when I was laying up the treasure that rusted132; stone on stone, log on log. Heavy, slow work. The sluice133 is like a city wall; the anvil bedded on seven feet of oak. It's right! But if I'd known then I should have put up a temple to Jehovah."
Hulings could scarcely contain his impatience134.
"Why," he ejaculated, "you might have made a fine thing out of it! Opportunity, opportunity, and you let it go by. For sheer——"
He broke off at a steady gaze from Claypole's calm blue eyes. It was evident that he would have to restrain any injudicious characterizations of the other's belief. He spoke135 suddenly:
"I came up here because I was sick and had to get out of Eastlake. I left everything but what little money I had. You see—I was a failure. I'd like to stay with you a while; when perhaps I might get on my feet again. I feel easier than I have for weeks." He realized, surprised, that this was so. He had a conviction that he could sleep here, by the stream, in the still, flowering woods. "I haven't any interest in temples," he continued; "but I guess—two men—we won't argue about that. Some allowance on both sides. But I am interested in iron; I'd like to know this forge of yours backward. I've discovered a sort of hankering after the idea; just that—iron. It's a tremendous fact, and you can keep it from rusting."
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supreme
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insanity
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