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"Turn on the water!" shouted a fireman

"No! No!" roared a voice, and a man in his undershirt rushed up and tried to tear the hose away from those that directed it It was Oscar

"No! Let her burn! Let her burn! We'll show that infernal hound of a Moore if he can take our chances away from us!"

"Oh, then 'twas you!" cried Moore, and he leaped for Oscar

A dozen er was there first He hung onto his father in desperate silence, while others pulled Oscar away Mr Wolf and Ernest followed the Moores as Roger led the way to a seat on a heap of débris

"There, old friend, there!" said Wolf "Don't take it so hard! I know! I know! If it was my store it would break the heart of er kept his hand on his father's shoulder Moore rested his head on his hand and said nothing

"It's all right, Daddy! You walloped hier

"His old snoot was all over his face," added Ernest in a cheerful voice

"Hush, boys, come away for a little bit," said Mr Wolf And he led the two back toward the hose But Roger would not go far He loitered behind lest soure on the heap of débris All the vicinity was brilliant with firelight And standing waiting thus he saw a sight that he never was to forget It was his father, bowing his head on a piece of the twisted, wrecked machinery--the machinery into which he had put the passionate hopes and drea nearer lest so as if indeed his heart was broken

That picture was to direct the entire course of Roger's life For it never left him And at first it filled his boyish mind with such bitterness that he could not hear of labor and its strivings and troubles without seeing red

But as the years on the farm slipped by and the atave place to the sweet silences, the quiet plodding, the placid sureness of farer ceased to blame the factory workmen who had destroyed his father, or to blaotism and selfishness that had driven his employees into reckless stubbornness He saw behind both the urge of the inevitable, unquenchable desire of hus for happiness; for the happiness that comes only when men have sufficient leisure in which to expand their minds and souls