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marvel at the goodness I find in humanity, when I see the temptation and
opportunity there is to do wrong."
"Some men are really depraved, though," said Mrs. D'Alloi.
"Yes," said madame. "Think of those strikers!"
Peter felt a thrill of pleasure pass through him, but he did not show
it. "Let me tell you something in connection with that. A high light in
place of a dark shadow. There was an attempt to convict some of the
strikers, but it failed, for want of positive evidence. The moral proof,
however, against a fellow named Connelly was so strong that there could
be no doubt that he was guilty. Two years later that man started out in
charge of a long express, up a seven-mile grade, where one of our
railroads crosses the Alleghanies. By the lay of the land every inch of
that seven miles of track can be seen throughout its entire length, and
when he had pulled half way up, he saw a section of a freight train
coming down the grade at a tremendous speed. A coupling had broken, and
this part of the train was without a man to put on the brakes.
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