[The Drums Of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Drums Of Jeopardy CHAPTER XVII 30/33
Well, you've just drunk it, my friend." "I sure have.
Those kids out there, smiling after all that hell; and you and me on the sidewalk, blubbering over 'em! What's the answer? We're Americans!" "You said it.
Good-bye." Cutty pressed on to the flow and went along with it, lighter in the heart than he had been in many a day.
These two million who lined Fifth Avenue, who cheered, laughed, wept, went silent, cheered again, what did their presence here signify? That America's day had come; that as a people they were homogeneous at last; that that which laws had failed to bring forth had been accomplished by an ideal. Bolshevism, socialism--call it what you will--would beat itself into fragments against this Rock of Democracy, which went down to the centre of the world and whose pinnacle touched the stars.
Reincarnation; the simple ideals of the forefathers restored.
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