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EFORE another Sunday came, the community was shocked and startled by the announcement that Mr. Cowdrick, the banker, had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. What had become of him nobody seemed to know. Even Mrs. Cowdrick apparently3 did not know. The friends who promptly4 called upon her, partly for the purpose of offering her their sympathy and partly with an intent to gratify their curiosity, ascertained5, during the intervals6 of her hysterical7 spasms8, that she cherished a wild and rather incoherent theory that Mr. Cowdrick had been brutally9 assassinated11 by some person and for some cause unknown. And this theory obtained some acceptance for a time among amiable12 people, who were disposed to take the most charitable view of the situation. But the number of these speedily diminished when the newspapers, a day or two later,150 revealed the result of an official examination of the affairs of Mr. Cowdrick’s bank. The public then learned that that financial institution was rotten through and through; that Mr. Cowdrick and his partners in crime had not only used, for purposes of private speculation13, the money of the depositors, but that they had stolen everything of value that had been committed to their care, and had left the bank an absolute, hopeless wreck14, and reduced the innocent and unsuspicious stockholders to beggary.
The public excitement, of course, was great. Mrs. Cowdrick’s friends neglected her. The rich and influential15 De Flukes actually insulted her by sending to recall an invitation to their reception that had been sent to her. As if Mrs. Cowdrick could have attended the reception at any rate! This was the cruellest thing of all, to Mrs. Cowdrick. She broke down completely and went to bed, where Leonie waited upon her to supply her with almost alarming quantities of camphor and smelling-salts.
As no traces of the fugitive16 could be found; as no one could testify to having seen him leave the city; and as the detective force, after following out without success any number of what they considered excellent clues, appeared to have relapsed into a normal condition of imbecility and indifference17, the conclusion reached by many persons was, that Cowdrick had destroyed himself; and the energetic151 and enterprising coroner, McSorley, who had just been elected upon the Democratic ticket, went to work to drag all the rivers and creeks18 and ponds in the neighborhood.
Colonel Hoker, the editor of the Crab, the leading daily paper, advocated a dozen different theories in turn, and his indomitable reporters not only secured early and accurate reports of the condition of the bank, but they obtained expressions of opinion from at least thirty eminent19 citizens who really knew no more about the matter than other people, and they watched Cowdrick’s house so closely, and were so successful in establishing confidential20 relations with the chambermaid, that they were able to tell how often the doctor called to see Mrs. Cowdrick, what quantity of reinvigorating drugs she consumed, how her medicine agreed with her, and what she had every day for dinner.
A country wherein a tyrant’s power is used to shackle21 the press, and to rob it of freedom of utterance22, does not know how much it misses.
The uncertainty23 in which the fate of Mr. Cowdrick was involved, made it exceedingly difficult for Colonel Hoker to discuss the bank sensation in his editorial columns. If he could have felt sure that the unhappy fugitive had really slain24 himself, the course of the Colonel would have been clear; for then he could with safety have directed public attention to the peculiar25 atrocity26 of the transactions152 at the bank; he could have held the miserable27 offender28 up before the public eye to point to him as an awful example to others, and especially to the young, and he could have preached many eloquent29 sermons upon the text, “Be sure your sins will find you out!”
But while a chance remained that Cowdrick was still alive and might return, the Colonel knew that it was the duty of persons upon whom it devolved to form public opinion through the instrumentality of the press, to be careful. He had learned from extended observation that an absent offender who has been roughly used as a warning against pursuance of the paths of vice30, sometimes comes back, and, after gaining possession of power and riches, manifests a disposition31 to make things very uncomfortable for the eminent journalists who have used him as a basis for their denunciations of sin. And so the Colonel discussed the matter in the Crab only in a general way; lamenting32 the loss to the stockholders; expressing regret that “one of our most eminent citizens should be, for a time at least, in some respects under a cloud,” and urging that perhaps the disaster might fairly be attributed to the spirit of wild speculation which seemed at times to animate33 entire communities, rather than to a deliberate purpose to inflict34 injury upon confiding35 and innocent persons.
The dexterity36 displayed by Colonel Hoker, in153 keeping the Crab in such a nice position that while it apparently conceded much to public sentiment and the requirements of morality, it yet left a very wide margin37 for the contingency38 of Cowdrick’s vindication39 and restoration to prosperity, was really marvellous.
But the nicest ingenuity40 sometimes will not avail against accident, or rather against that Fate which ordains41 catastrophe42 with ironical43 contempt for human foresight44.
The Colonel was compelled to leave town for a few days, and in order to make the Crab entirely45 safe, he penned two editorial articles, one to be used in the event of the discovery of Cowdrick’s dead body during his absence, the other to be inserted if Cowdrick should return alive to face his accusers and his fate.
The former article ran in this wise:—
“The Way of the Transgressor46.
“It has not often been our lot to present to our readers more striking proof than that which is found in our columns to-day of the fact that Satan makes hard bargains. It is now positively47 ascertained that Cowdrick the swindler, forger48 and thief, driven by desperation at the exposure of his awful crimes, and, let us hope, for the sake of human nature, by the stings of a conscience which could not hearken with indifference to the cries of the widows154 and orphans49 reduced at one fell blow to beggary, took his own life, and so ended a career of crime which honest men shrink from contemplating50. It is, perhaps, for the best, however much we may regret that this wretched felon51, burdened with guilt52 and shame, should have robbed the law of its right to punish, and should have gone into eternity53 unshriven, with the guilt of self-destruction added to the mountain of sins for which already he was required to give account. We shrink from discussion of the dreadful details of this shocking and sickening tragedy; but it will not have been enacted54 in vain if it shall seem to warn those who are tempted55, as this man was, to surrender honesty at the demand of greed, and to permit the maddening thirst for gain to persuade them to trample56 in the dust their obligations to society, to their families, and to those who had given them their trust.”
The second article pursued rather a different line of thought. It was to the following effect:—
“A Demand for Fair Play.
“We take a great deal of pleasure in announcing that Henry P. Cowdrick, Esq., the well-known banker, whose name has been before the public for some days past in connection with some unpleasant, but not yet positively authentic57, rumors58, has returned to the city in the enjoyment59 of excellent health. It is understood that an immediate60 further155 examination into the affairs of the bank will be made with the assistance of Mr. Cowdrick, and we merely express the general wish when we say that we hope to have some of the transactions that have excited severest comment explained in such a manner as to vindicate61 Mr. Cowdrick of every suspicion of wilful62 wrong-doing. Meantime, while this inquiry63 is pending64, and while Mr. Cowdrick is preparing his statement of the case, it is only just to him to ask that there shall be a suspension of public opinion. His former high standing65, his services to this community, the obscurity in which the recent operations of the bank are shrouded66, and the most ordinary requirements of fair play, all combine to make it desirable that public opinion shall not pronounce a final verdict before the case is made up. We need not say how earnestly we trust that Mr. Cowdrick will emerge from his troubles with his honor unstained, and his reputation as a faithful guardian67 of the trusts confided68 to him, untarnished.”
As a precautionary measure, the preparation of these articles appeared to be in a high sense judicious69; and the Colonel naturally felt that the Crab might be depended on to keep nicely upon the right track until he should come home. But, alas70! upon the next day but one after his departure, the foreman of the Crab composing-room, either mistaking his instructions, or being too much in haste in arranging his material, placed both articles together156 in the form, and the Crab came out in the morning to provoke the mirth of the town, to excite the contempt of its enemies, and to drive the unhappy associate editors of the paper to madness and despair. The manner in which the rival journals commented upon the occurrence was both brutal10 and infamous71; and when the subject became a little stale, the editors of the rival journals put the Crab articles carefully away in scrap73 books, so as to make sure of having them ready for irritating and badgering Colonel Hoker upon every favorable opportunity during all the years to come.
The Colonel himself, upon discerning the catastrophe in a copy of the paper which he picked up at his hotel, expressed his feelings freely and vehemently74 by telegraph, and then he started home upon a fast express train for the purpose of explaining his views more fully72 and precisely75.
The Crab itself alluded76 to the subject only so far as to suggest that the stupidity of an associate editor was accountable for the performance, and to hint that there was some reason for suspecting that bribery77 had been employed by the owners of rival papers, in the vain hope to bring the Crab, the only really infallible journal published, into contempt.
The efforts of McSorley, the coroner, to demonstrate the correctness of his theory of suicide were indefatigable78. The body not having been discovered157 in any of the streams, McSorley began to search for it upon the land. The pursuit, however, was not profitable, for no traces of Mr. Cowdrick could be found. An ordinary coroner would have abandoned the hunt in despair; but McSorley was no common man. He brought to the performance of the functions of his office an enthusiasm which never failed to kindle79 at the promise of a fee; and as, in this case, he was thoroughly80 convinced that Cowdrick ought to have committed suicide, he felt that for Cowdrick to have evaded81 his duty in the matter would have been to perpetrate a wanton outrage82 upon Coroner McSorley.
The following extract from the local reports in the Crab will explain the character of the coroner’s ultimate effort:—
“Yesterday a number of large bones were discovered beneath an old stable on Twelfth Street, by some laborers83. It was believed by most of the spectators that they were the bones of a horse. But Coroner McSorley, who was sent for, declared at once his belief that they were portions of the skeleton of one of our prominent citizens, a banker, who has been missing for several days. This view was contested by several of the persons present upon the ground that the remains84 were absolutely fleshless, and manifestly very old. But the coroner, to demonstrate the accuracy of his view, proceeded to arrange the bones upon the pavement158 in the form of a man. He succeeded in the attempt to some extent, and was about to summon his jury of inquest, when Dr. Wattles came up. The doctor examined the skeleton, and then the following conversation ensued between him and Coroner McSorley:—
“‘You don’t imagine that to be the skeleton of a human being, do you, Mr. McSorley?’
“Certainly it is! Don’t you see the shape of it?’
“‘But, my dear sir, what you have arranged as the spine85, runs clear up through what you suppose to be the skull86, and projects two or three inches beyond the top of the head.’
“‘Of course; and that is very likely the cause of all the trouble. The man’s spine worked up into his head and disordered his mind. An aunt of mine, in Wisconsin, went mad from that very cause.’
“‘But how do you account for the fact that there are three elbows in the left arm and none at all in the right.’
“‘Dr. Wattles, I am not obliged to account for eccentricities87 of formation in different individuals. I am satisfied with them as nature made them; and that is enough. It’s none of my business if Cowdrick had eleven elbows in one arm, and thirty-four in the other.’
“‘I will not argue the point, sir; but you certainly have no authority for locating two ribs88 in159 the neck, and for placing a row of teeth upon the upper side of the right foot. That foot, Mr. McSorley, is nothing but a fragment of a lower jawbone, depend upon it.’
“‘How do you know that the deceased had no teeth there? You doctors always want to insist that every man is constructed on the same plan. I used to know a man in Canada who had four molar teeth in his ankle; and two of them were plugged. This appears to be a similar case.’
“‘But you never knew a man who had a thighbone where his shoulder-blade ought to be, like this one, did you? You never saw a man with a knee-cap in the small of his back, either, did you?”
“You never Saw a Man with a Knee-cap in the Small of his Back.”
“‘Maybe I did, and maybe I didn’t. I have no time to discuss the subject now. The inquest that I am about to hold will bring out the facts. Mr. O’Flynn, swear in the jury!’”
The evidence that was given by the witnesses was of the most varied89 and entertaining character; and though much of it was vague and much was irrelevant90, the jury appeared to have no difficulty in reaching a conclusion, for, after a few minutes’ deliberation, they brought in a verdict that “the deceased, Henry P. Cowdrick, came to his death from cause or causes unknown;” and then they collected their fees and dispersed91, with a grateful consciousness that they had fully discharged their duty to society.
160 But, of course, perfectly92 disinterested93 persons, persons who were not in the way of earning jury fees, were disposed to regard with incredulity the conclusions reached by the coroner and his friends, and still it was for the community a vexed94 question—What had become of Mr. Cowdrick?
The coroner’s theory, however, was not entirely forgotten, because Dr. Wattles sent to one of the daily papers a communication, in which he expressed his opinion of the bones over which the inquest was held. This provoked from “An Eminent Scientist,” who had not seen the bones, a suggestion of the possibility that they may have belonged to some mysterious creature who was the missing link between man and the lower orders of mammalia.
To this there came a hot response from Father Tunicle and several other clergymen, who proceeded to show the monstrous95 folly96 and wickedness of such a supposition, and who demonstrated that Science and Infidelity, not to say sheer Paganism, were pretty nearly one and the same thing.
The clerical utterances97 so excited at least half-a-dozen other Eminent Scientists that the latter undertook to demonstrate, through the columns of the daily papers, that the book of Genesis was written by Jeremiah; that life first visited this planet in the shape of star-dust, which, after developing into jelly-fish, gradually grew to the ape form, and161 ultimately became man. They showed how all religion is priestcraft and superstition98; they traced all the creeds99 backward to myths built upon the operations of Nature; they could hardly refrain from mirth at the notion of a Great First Cause; and they positively refused to join with the multitude, for whom, however, they expressed deep compassion100, in believing anything that they could not see, or feel, or analyze101.
It seemed a large controversy102 to grow out of Coroner McSorley’s arrangement of the unearthed103 bones; but the controversialists manifestly regarded it as of the very highest importance; although, when it was ended, each believed precisely what he had believed before.
At St. Cadmus’s, the Cowdrick tragedy had had, upon the whole, rather a good effect. The event was mournful, of course, but it produced some desirable results. The Tunicle party felt that they had lost one of their most ardent104 supporters, and a contributor upon whose wealth they had depended greatly for the success of their plans. Thus they were able more easily to perceive the excellence105 of a spirit of concession106, and at once they began to approach the other side with offers of compromise.
Happily, at this juncture107, Father Krum received a “call” to a church in another diocese, and he accepted it promptly, sending in his resignation of his position as the assistant minister at St. Cadmus’s.162 Father Tunicle, then, of his own motion, offered to abandon, as not absolutely essential to salvation108, the use of black book-markers upon Good Friday; whereupon Mr. Yetts and his adherents109 in the vestry declared themselves satisfied, and once more resumed their accustomed places in the sanctuary110 on Sunday.
Upon the second Sunday after the disappearance of Mr. Cowdrick, Father Tunicle, who held stoutly111 to the theory that his late vestryman had been murdered, resolved to refer indirectly112 in his remarks from the pulpit to the bereavement113; and upon his invitation, Mrs. Cowdrick and Leonie attended the church, heavily veiled, to obtain what consolation114 might be possible from the services.
Father Tunicle, being somewhat pressed for time during the preceding week, had procured115 from a dealer116 in such commodities, at the price of three dollars, an original sermon addressed to persons in affliction, and this he brought with him into the pulpit, wrapped in Leonie’s worked velvet117 sermon-cover. The fact that the sermon was nicely lithographed, so that it closely resembled manuscript, made it quite impossible for any one to suspect that it was not the product of Father Tunicle’s own intellectual effort and of his earnest sympathy. The discourse118 was divided into four parts; three heads, and an affecting application; which, at three dollars for the whole, of course163 amounted to just seventy-five cents a part—not too much, surely, for so wholesome119 and comforting a sermon.
Father Tunicle preached it with much eloquence120; but Mrs. Cowdrick, despite an occasional sob121 beneath her veil, managed to restrain her feelings until Father Tunicle had gotten through with one dollar and a half’s worth of the sermon, and had begun upon the third head. Then Mrs. Cowdrick could stand it no longer. One passionate122 outburst of grief followed another, until, when the attention of the entire congregation was directed to Mrs. Cowdrick, the sexton came in, and led her in a fainting condition down the aisle123 to the door, where she was placed in the carriage with Leonie, with nothing to solace124 her but the reflection that everybody in the church, including the odious125 De Flukes, must have noticed her sealskin sacque and her lovely diamond earrings126.
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