Owen Johnson
The Sixty-First Second
Paperback
(Forgotten Books Sept. 17, 2017)
Excerpt from The Sixty-First Second
A waif at six; a wharf rat at twelve, endowed with the strength of a man; leader of a gang at six teen, hated, feared, always fighting; gaining his first start in politics, and then, by making a lucky strike in the silver mines of Colorado, educating himself with primitive necessary knowledge, always acquit ing, never relaxing what his fingers touched, a terri ble antagonist, risking his all a dozen times in the hunger for a greater stake - he had emerged at last from the churning vortex of a brutal struggle, pos sessor of a fortune that fifty times had hung on the events of a day. For five years he had been involved in countless lawsuits, accused of chicanery, extortion, conspiracy, and even murder. At the end of which period he came forth victorious, without losing a sin gle suit, surrounded, it is true, by every calumny that could he invented accused of manipulating legisla tures, corrupting Judges, and removing witnesses.
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A waif at six; a wharf rat at twelve, endowed with the strength of a man; leader of a gang at six teen, hated, feared, always fighting; gaining his first start in politics, and then, by making a lucky strike in the silver mines of Colorado, educating himself with primitive necessary knowledge, always acquit ing, never relaxing what his fingers touched, a terri ble antagonist, risking his all a dozen times in the hunger for a greater stake - he had emerged at last from the churning vortex of a brutal struggle, pos sessor of a fortune that fifty times had hung on the events of a day. For five years he had been involved in countless lawsuits, accused of chicanery, extortion, conspiracy, and even murder. At the end of which period he came forth victorious, without losing a sin gle suit, surrounded, it is true, by every calumny that could he invented accused of manipulating legisla tures, corrupting Judges, and removing witnesses.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 1330636422 / 9781330636428
- Pages
- 406
- Weight
- 19.04 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.98 x 0.83 in.
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