Francis Lynde

Name: "For This Relief Much Thanks"
Author: Francis Lynde

"For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

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“"For This Relief Much Thanks"”, published in 1908, is a work by Francis Lynde. It explores elements such as Tenbroeck, Jamieson and New York.

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ Kate Winton had taken her mother to Colorado to try what virtue there might be in the clean air of the altitudes, and thither Tenbroeck had betaken himself, armed with a Freiburg diploma, a light heart, and sun-dry business commissions from his father's friends.
As a matter of course, Colorado made instant room for a man who was an expert mining engineer, and whose opinions were backed unhesitatingly by eastern capital; and up to the day of the $10,000 tragedy the sun shone brightly and the wind set fair for the young man whose office was on the fifth floor of the Baralone Building. ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ Tenbroeck met him half way and wrung the hand of restitution yet once again.
"You go across to your den and go to bed. You're a bit shaken up by the prospect of earning a little money, that's all. Go to bed and rest your nerve; you'll need it all to-morrow. Good-night and good luck to you."
The day of the excursion to Idaho Springs dawned bright and flawless, as Colorado summer days are wont to dawn; and during its speeding Tenbroeck renewed his youth, and Kate lost some of the pallor which wedding preparations entail upon the gentle and simple. ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ He was not good at such devisings, and the upshot of the matter was that he took a bank-note from his pocket, crumpled it and tossed it across to the confessed failure. It fell on the floor, and Jamieson picked it up and put it on the desk.
"Thank you, Tenbroeck, but I haven't come to that. I know what you're going to say—that it's a loan and all that. But I can't take it; and when I tell you that I've gone on one meal a day for a week you'll understand that I know how to starve like a man." ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ Years afterward someone had told him that Jamieson had gone on the stage, but he had never met the histrionic senior until one day Jamieson turned up in Denver, took the room across the corridor, and lettered his door, "Mining Expert and Consulting Engineer." It was in view of the memory that Tenbroeck said:
"Whatever set you in the scientific field, Jamieson? As I recollect them, your gifts were of another kind."
"What sets a man at anything? I'm afraid I'm a sorry failure all around." ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ All I need is work, and work doesn't come to me as it does to others—as it does to you."
He was staring absently at the letter from the New York capitalist, and, following the eye-trajectory, Tenbroeck had an inspiration white-hot from the forge of generous impulse. These Englishmen who were coming to buy the Vindex; the investment was perfectly safe at the price asked by the Vindex owners. Why not let Jamieson earn the two-hundred-pound fee? ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ Of course, the first thought was of pickpockets and the fellow I stumbled over in the corridor; but that is blankly incredible."
"Quite incredible"—Jamieson's hand began to come out of his pocket by quarter inches, and the parched lips were tremulous—"quite incredible, one would say. But you were very careless—terribly careless." The inching hand came forth with a little jerk at the last word and he laid a compact roll of bank-notes on Tenbroeck's desk. "There is your money. I found it on the floor in the corridor late that night when I came up to go to bed. ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ It was from one of his New York patrons announcing that the expected party of English investors had come over in the Etruria, and would presently arrive in Denver with a note of introduction from the writer. "I have given you a good send-off," wrote this father's friend to his friend's son. "I have told Mr. Montague that you probably know more about the Vindex property than any other man in Colorado; that your opinion may be taken as final; and that your fee will be proportionately high. They have plenty of money and will be prepared to buy on the spot for cash. ”

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Francis Lynde, "For This Relief Much Thanks" (1908)

“ Suppose I give you my card-case and take a day off. You used to be pretty good at impersonations in the old days. If I can't lend you money, I can at least lend you my identity for a few hours. Don't say no ”

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