"Then gently scan your brother man
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To step aside is human."
I thank you again. I wish you well. And I hope that no experience, striking at you out of life's uncertainties, may ever leave you one of those noticeable men—a broken cocksure.
Your deeply obliged and very grateful,
EDWARD BLACKTHORNE.
BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE TO BEVERLEY SANDS
June 30, 1912.
DEAR BEVERLEY:
About a month ago I took it upon myself to write the one letter that had long been raging in my mind to Edward Blackthorne. And I sent him all the fern letters. And then I drew up the whole case and prosecuted him as your lawyer.
Of course I meant my letter to be an infernal machine that would blow him to pieces. He merely inspected it, removed the fuse and inserted a crank, and turned it into a music-box to grind out his praises.
And then the kind of music he ground out for me.