A Covenant With Death
“The event was noted, and honored by a day’s speculation, but the town had, after all, other cares and considerations. President Harding, for example, was moving west, and was cutting grain in Kansas just three days after the American State National Bank of Wichita reported a shortage of one million five hundred thousand dollars and one cashier. And then a Presidential automobile soared off a cliff near Denver, two killed. To my mother such cosmic happenings were of little importance, but she very quickly found the counterpoint to Bryan Talbot’s imminent demise: a turtle branded in Tonga by Captain Cook in 1773 had been found alive. “One hundred fifty years,” she said. “How old is Talbot?”
It was a strange season. The newspapers were full of death and I was preparing to take the bench. A sharp drop in the suicide rate was credited to general prosperity and I was studying the documents in a hotly contested condemnation that Hochstadter had held over for me. While I pored over injunction...s and restraining orders four Labour members of Parliament were suspended for calling various other members of Parliament murderers because children were dying of starvation.MoreLess
It was a strange season. The newspapers were full of death and I was preparing to take the bench. A sharp drop in the suicide rate was credited to general prosperity and I was studying the documents in a hotly contested condemnation that Hochstadter had held over for me. While I pored over injunction...s and restraining orders four Labour members of Parliament were suspended for calling various other members of Parliament murderers because children were dying of starvation.MoreLess
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