At the moment of the Interdiction1, when their Eyes at length meet, what they believe they once found aboard the Seahorse fails, this time, to appear. It is not a faltering3 on either man's part, or the mistaken impres?sion of one, or any moral lapse,— 'tis a difference of opinion. Mason, stubborn, wishes to go on, believing that with Hugh Crawfford's help, he may negotiate for another ten minutes of Arc.
"But Mason, they don't know what thah' is...?"
"We'll show them. Let them look thro' the Instruments or something. Or they can watch us writing."
"They don't want any of thah'? They want to know how to stop this great invisible Thing that comes crawling Straight on over their Lands, devouring5 all in its Path."
"Well! of course it's a living creature, 'tis all of us, temporarily col?lected into an Entity6, whose Labors7 none could do alone."
"A tree-slaughtering Animal, with no purpose but to continue creat?ing forever a perfect Corridor over the Land. Its teeth of Steel,— its Jaws8, Axmen,— its Life's Blood, Disbursement9. And what of its intentions, beyond killing10 ev'rything due west of it? do you know? I don't either."
"Then,— just tidying these thoughts up a bit,— you're saying this Line has a Will to proceed Westward11,—
"What else are these people suppos'd to believe? Haven't we been saying, with an hundred Blades all the day long,— This is how far into your land we may strike, this is what we claim to westward. As you see
what we may do to Trees, and how little we care,— imagine how little we
care for Indians, and what we are prepar'd to do to you. That Influence
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ble as the Path of a Whirl-Wind."
"But those are Threats we do not make."
"But might as well make. As the Indians wish, we must go no further."
"No. We must go on."
For eleven Days, from the ninth thro' the nineteenth of October, they linger beside Dunkard Creek12, the Indians keeping their distance, look?ing to their Weapons, as to their Routes of withdrawal13, whilst the White Folk dispute. Some of the Hands are back east of here, cutting the Visto to Breadth, as Autumn closes in and ev'ryone is eager to be away, for there are other Tasks that claim each in the Party, including the Survey?ors,— who at some point exchange Positions, with Dixon now for push?ing on, razzle-dazzling their way among the Indians at least as far as Ohio. "Cheer's the Ticket. Let them have more than their daily Ration14 of Spirits. They'll be Sports."
"Wait,— you think you'll be getting through on charm? Indians all the way up into the Six Nations and down to the Cherokee know about that Coat,— many have their Eye upon it, and you are but the minor15 incon?venience from which 'twill have to be remov'd."
The Indians grow coy and sinister16. The Women stare openly, steadily17 amus'd. Mason and Dixon are allow'd to cross the War-path, and three more Turnings of Dunkard Creek, before they can climb to a Ridge18-top high enough to set up the Sector19. At last the Dodmen have reach'd their Western Terminus, at 233 Miles, 13 Chains, and 68 Links from the Post Mark'd West. "Damme, we're only a few miles shy."
" 'A few'! Forty miles?"
" 'Tis easy country. We're over the last ridge. We're in the Ohio Country."
Mason has seen it from the top of Laurel Hill, "...the most delightful20 pleasing View of the Western Plains the Eye can behold,"— the Par4?adise once denied him by the Mills, now denied him by, he supposes, British American Policy ever devious21. They decide to travel light and fast,— not to take the Sector, nor any other Instrument. "Mustn't tie thah' River in, just yet... ?"
"Aye, let them all be free while they may."
Mason is Gothickally depressive, as Dixon is Westeringly manic. Dixon's Head, like a Needle forever ninety degrees out, tho' it wobble some, remains22 true to perfect West, whilst Mason might as well be riding backwards23, so often does he look behind, certain they are about to meet an abbreviation of Braddock's Fate. Mason withal, via the happenstances of God's Whimsy24, is riding Creeping Nick, the same crazy animal that threw him on to the Jersey25 Ice. Departing at Sun-down, keeping their Latitude26 as best they may by Polaris, growing more fearful with ev'ry Mile, they travel thro' the Night, trans-Terminal America whirling by, smelling of wildflowers and Silt27, and immediate28 Lobes29 of Honeysuckle-scent apt to ambush30 the unwary Nose, amid moonlight, owls31, smears32 of nocturnal Color somewhere off-center in the Field of Vision,— they make it to the great River just at Dawn,— the Rush of the Water loud as the Sea,— stunn'd by the beauty of it they forget, they linger, they over?stay all practickal Time, and are surpriz'd by a Party of Indians in elab?orate Paint-Work.
"Far from your Tents, Red Coat." It is Catfish33 and his Nephew, and some Friends, who reluctantly lower their Rifles.
"Having a Look at the River, Sir," Dixon replies.
"There are Catawba Parties about. Mingoes, Seneca. Good thing we saw you first. How'd you sneak34 out past Hendricks? He never sleeps."
Mason sees it first,— then, tipp'd by his frozen silence, Dixon. Catfish is packing a Lancaster Rifle, slung35 in a Scabbard upon his Saddle, with an inverted36 Pentacle upon the Stock, unmistakable in the Moon-light. Mason looks over, on the possibility that Dixon has a Plan, and sees Dixon already looking back at him, upon the same deluded37 Hope.
"Actually," says Dixon, "we only just arriv'd, so it isn't as if we've 'seen' the River, if that poses any sort of problem,—
- and it certainly isn't as if we're planning to settle here,—
Catfish with one huge hand slides the Rifle out and holds it up before him, noticing the Sterloop as if for the first time. He smiles without mirth at the Surveyors. "You think this is my Rifle? No! I took this Rifle! From
a White man I have wish'd to meet for a long time. He was a very bad man. Even White People hated him. Beautiful Piece, isn't it?"
"The Sign on it has evil Powers," Mason warns. "You should take a Knife or something, and pry38 it out."
"What happen'd to its owner?" Dixon with a look of unsuccessfully feign'd innocence39.
The Delaware is delighted to share that information with them, pulling from a Bag he carries a long Lock of fair European Hair so freshly taken, 'tis yet darkly a-drip, at one end, with Blood. "This very day, Milords. Had you been earlier, you might have met."
Either Mason or Dixon might reply, "We've met,"— yet neither does. "It didn't feel complete to me," Mason admits later, "I expected he yet liv'd, screaming about the Woods, driven to revenge at any price, a Monomaniack with a Hole in the top of his Head,—
"— looking for that Rifle back," adds Dixon.
Coming back, setting in the last Marks, crossing Jennings Run, little Allegheny, Wills Creek, Wills Creek Mountain, the Road up to Bedford, Evitts Creek, Evitts Mountain, at all the highest Points in the Visto, they put up Cairns, as the ancient British Ley-builders and Dodsmen before them, as later the Romans, for purposes more Legionary than commer?cial. The Hands keep leaving, without notice. With those who stay, the Astronomers40, transiting41 from Weightless Obs to earthly back-wrenching Toil42 the Obs demand by way of Expression, set Posts ev'ry Mile, these being large segments of Tree, roughly squar'd, twelve by twelve inches, and five or sometimes six or seven foot long. First the Crew dig a deep Post-Hole, put in the Post, fill back the Hole, tamping43 down the Earth scientifickally, one shovel-ful at a time, then bring more Stone and Earth to make a Cone44 about the Post, leaving perhaps six inches of it visible. That is the Surveyors' estimate of the Mark's Longevity,— tho' of course Angles of Repose45 vary,— and withal, Mason and Dixon will bicker46, by now, over anything.
On November 5th, two things happen at once,— the Visto is com?pleted, and the Indians depart,— as if, as long as a Tree remain'd, so might they. At last the Axmen have clear'd the Visto back to the Post
marking their last Station of the Year previous,— east of which all lies clear, all the way back to Delaware. "There being one continued Visto," Mason writes in the Journal, "opened in the true Parallel from the inter2?section of the North Line from the Tangent Point with the Parallel to the Ridge we left off at on the 9th of October last.
"Mr. Hugh Crawford with the Indians and all Hands (except 13 kept to Erect47 Marks in the Line etc.) Left us in order to proceed Home."
The departing Axmen roam about peering at, poking48, and buying Blankets, Kettles, Milch Cows, Grindstones, anything Mo McClean thinks he may sell to lighten the load, before the Mountains, no offer too insulting. The Vendue is a protracted49 Spectacle of sorrowful farewells, Debts settl'd or evaded50, Whiskey Jugs51 a-swing, upon ev'ry Index, and a Squirrel Stuffata from the Commissary Tent without equal this side of the Allegheny Ridge. At length, the last of the Farmers, new-bought pots and pans a-clank, goes riding off into a dusk render'd in copper-plate, gray and black, the Hatching too crowded to allow for any reversal, or return...leaving gather'd by the Waggons52, smoking Pipes, gray with fatigue54 and winter sky-light, Mr. Barnes, Cope, Rob Farlow, the McCleans, Tom Hynes, Boggs Junior, John and Ezekiel Killogh,— and the others of that faithful Core who stay'd across Monongahela, to the Warrior55 Path, and the westernmost Ridge, and back again.
None of the Hands is feeling that well. Dixon has been giving out opi?ated Philtres to all who would but gesture toward their Noses,— as Mo McClean is writing at furious speed, Chits upon Philadelphia Money-Boxes as if he'll never see the place again, so what's it matter? Suddenly Expenditures56 are above ￡100, then ￡200, per week. Fiscal57 insanity58 has visited the Commissary Tent. Sensing opportunity, Farmers with goods to sell appear from Horizons all swear have been empty for Hours.
The snow drives in relentlessly59. From the ninth to the nineteenth of November,— another eleven-day Spin,— there is little in the Field-Book,— suggesting either a passage so difficult that there was no time for nightly entries, or events so blameworthy on all sides that they were omitted from the Account.
In fact, such was the level of Engagement requir'd to answer to the Ele?ments, as to mark the Line, that there was no time for bad behavior. This
is the Gradient of Days in which the Party must work their way up to the Allegheny Crest60, hastening as they may, the early Winter having caught them west of the Mountains. Here lie the most difficult Miles of the long Traverse, this ascent61 out of Ohio and out of the West. Unsettl'd by the abrupt62 Absence of Mohawks, with whom they have come to feel almost secure, as so seldom in this Continent of Hazard, the Skies, night upon night, too clouded over for Observations, both Surveyors, cast into Per?plexity, Drink and play Whist for Sums neither will ever see all in one place at the same time,— the Crew meanwhile deserting Day upon Day, their replacements63 taking ever more exorbitant64 Wages,— yet, whilst they bide65 in this Realm of the Penny-foolish and Pound-idiotick, till the Moment they must pass over the Crest of the Savage66 Mountain, does there remain to them, contrary to Reason, against the Day, a measurable chance, to turn, to go back out of no more than Stubbornness, and somehow make all come right...for, once over the Summit, they will belong again to the East, to Chesapeake,— to Lords for whom Interests less subjunctive must ever enjoy Priority.
They have lost their Race with the first Snows,— now they pray they may get all the Cairns dug and pil'd before the Ground freezes too hard. The Snow is already a foot deep. Traces break, a Waggon53 skids67 back down the Slope on its side, the Canvas bellying68, the Animals fearfully trying to fight clear,— Tent-Poles and Spades a-clatter, a Lanthorn against the low-lit Day, falling and smashing upon the Ice, tiny trails of Flame borne instantly away. Here are the last Cadre, out in the uninter?rupted Visto,— from a certain Height, oddly verminous upon the pale Riband unfolding,— fairly out in the Hundred-League Current of Sha, where ev'ry Step is purchas'd with a further surrender of Ignorance as to what they have finish'd,— what they have left at their Backs, undone,— what, measuring the Degree of Latitude next Spring, they shall be newly complicit in,— tho' if it takes them much longer to get over the Ridge, even if they escape freezing solid, they may yet have journey'd further into Terrestrial Knowledge, than will allow them to re-emerge without bargaining away too much for merely another Return following another Excursion, in a Cycle belonging to some Engine whose higher Assembly and indeed Purpose, they are never, except from infrequent Glimpses, quite able to make out.
Turn'd in Retreat Eastward69 again, watch'd from Cover at ev'ry step, with Apprehensions70, instead of lessening71, rather mounting, Ridge by Ridge, the Party feel the Warrior Path engrossing72 more of their sentimental73 Horizon, even as it recedes74 into the West. Immediately upon the deaths of Baker75 and Carpenter begin a string of mishaps76 between Men and
Trees, some nearly lethal77, none unconnected Felling-Mates try to
keep as close as they may, often conversing78 more in a day than they have in all the time since they team'd up. Spending precious Minutes in daily Rituals of Protection, all pay Tolls79 at the Gate of Sunrise, good but for the one Day that must be got thro'.—
Mason and Dixon look in again at The Rabbi of Prague, inquiring in partickular after Timothy Tox. "He is mad," Countrymen are soon explaining to them. "What he now styles, 'His Golem,' does not exist." Mr. Tox looks on with a tolerant Smile.
"Because he heard it speak the same words as God out of the Burning Bush, Tim nowadays imagines himself Moses,— with a Commission from God, to bring another People out of Captivity80."
"Out of the City," declares Timothy Tox, "where Affliction ever reigns81, must the Golem deliver them, over Schuylkill, out of that Ameri?can Egypt."
"You don't want to be going into Philadelphia, Lad," they warn him, "— carrying Folk off and so forth82. Nor, particularly, confiding83 in too many of those Cits about the Goah-lem, now, for to many of them, the Old Knowl?edge is an Evil they'll be as content to execute ye for, as lock ye away."
"I am quite undeluded," the Forest Dithyrambist replies, "as to the Philadelphians,— before all, the Lawyers,— come, come, does no one recall,
' 'Tis only by the Grace that some call Luck That anyone can quite escape the Muck.— As e'er, 'mongst Wax, and Wigs84, and Printer's Ink Seepeth the creeping sly Suborner's Stink85.—
"There he goes!"
"So do ye summon it, Tim, we're on to that by now?”
"It will protect me, as it will protect them it sets free." ' 'Twas ne'er your Creature to command, Tim."
"Just so. It is our Guardian86."
Mason and Dixon, each revisiting The Rabbi of Prague for his distinct Reasons, attend this Discussion closely. Dixon has already propos'd offering Mr. Tox the Protection of the Party as far as Newark, near the Tangent Point.
"So long as he doesn't bring the Golem," stipulates87 Mason. "He brings the Golem,— well,— what do they eat, for example? What are their sanitary88 Requirements? How shall Mo McClean, who's already striking himself daily upon the Pate89 with his own Ledgers90, find the addi?tional Resources?"
"Yet, mightn't we turn the Creature to some useful work,— say upon the Visto? Pulling up the Trees by their Roots,— clearing out all those un-sightly Stumps91?"
"The Axmen would never hear of it. Next two-story House we came to, we'd both be taken upstairs and defenestrated. Nay,— I know what you seek,— the Neighborhood of Prodigy,— the Mobility92 Awe-struck,— Entry to Saloons you have previously93 been unwelcome in,— " Whilst Mason himself, of course, is angling quite a different Stream. Here is a Creature made of Water and Earth,— Clay, that is, and Minerals,— as if an Indian Mound94 of the West, struck by Lightning, had risen, stood, and, newly awaken'd, with the Vis Fulgoris surging among all its precisely95 fashion'd Laminae, begun, purposefully, to walk. An American Wonder, one's own witness of which might even be brought back across the cold Sea, to the true, terminable World again. Mason can think of no way to ask the obvious Question, as he did of the Learned Dog, and has been reluctant to of the Frenchman's Duck. Now withal, Time for this grows short,— just outside, in the Forest, articulate as Drumming, can be heard the rhythmick approach of the Kabbalistick Colossus Mr. Tox has summon'd. Mason and Dixon place their Heads upon the Table, and regard each other solemnly, in joint96 awareness97 of how much Effort will be needed, this time, to believe Mr. Tox's Testimony98, as to whatever is about to appear....
As 'twill prove, the closer they escort Mr. Tox to the Metropolis99, the less Evidence for his Creature's existence will they be given, till at
length they must believe that the Poet has either pass'd, like some Indian Youth at the Onset100 of Manhood, under the Protection of a potent101 tho' invisible Spirit,— or gone mad. They leave him upon the New Cas?tle Road, standing102 among the late purple Loosestrife by the Ditch, glanc?ing upward from time to time, waving his Arm,— then growing still, appearing to listen. Just before he has dwindl'd around the last bend in their own Road, Mason and Dixon see a Conestoga Waggon, with an exceptionally bright Canopy103, and drawn104 by match'd white Horses, stop beside him. Timothy Tox without hesitation105 goes around to the Tail-Gate, and climbs up under the luminous106 Canvas, vanishing within, as if confi?dent107 that the Golem, whose Strides are at least as long as a Team and Waggon, will contrive108 to stay close to him, wherever he is taken, and whatever may befall him there.
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