. The right of the strongest . or the striving that is in it, for the joyof achieving that is in it. I am doing it in answerto the age-old spirit of the conqueror that is withinme. It is my way of being a man. And though the awakened conscience of the womanwould have sat in judgment and still condemned,the sleeping instinct in the depths of her naturewould have stirred in sympathy; for, by the mysteryof life itself, there is no one quality in the man thatso unfailingly, so irresistibly, appeals ^o the womanas that quality which, for want of a better term,we call force. As John Marshall now nea
. The right of the strongest . or the striving that is in it, for the joyof achieving that is in it. I am doing it in answerto the age-old spirit of the conqueror that is withinme. It is my way of being a man. And though the awakened conscience of the womanwould have sat in judgment and still condemned,the sleeping instinct in the depths of her naturewould have stirred in sympathy; for, by the mysteryof life itself, there is no one quality in the man thatso unfailingly, so irresistibly, appeals ^o the womanas that quality which, for want of a better term,we call force. As John Marshall now neared the maze of unfilledsewer-trenches, streets in process of asphalting, hillsbeing razed, and hollows being filled, upon whichrose, complete before his minds eye, the city of hishope, a summons came to him along the wind thatthe man within him leaped to obey. The smell offried bacon on the cool, crisp air of evening announcedthat supper was nearly ready at the camp, and theboys would soon be falling to. Selim was dead tired,. COLO i C5 acd MS HH H a1! PL, -I_)<! S ^2Ji< s THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST 153 but he was fain to respond to the urging of thesavagely hungry man who bestrode him, and thetwo came into camp with a swing shortly thereafter. Supper was not ready, after all, so Marshall putin the time reviewing the ground—asking questions,giving orders, and commending and condemning,alike with a hearty promptness. Foremen were in-terviewed at length, and he had a word or two witheven the humblest negro laborer. His advent was the signal for a general thrill ofinterest throughout the camp. The Boss: was aman feared and respected by his inferiors, and cor-dially liked by his equals for something within himwhich, brutally put, was nothing more nor less thana sublime faith in himself. The world took him athis own evaluation of himself as the world takesalways men of his type. The ground had been pretty thoroughly reviewedby Marshall by the time supper was definitely an-n
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