II 



The Seen and the Unseen 



WE were late coming out this year. 

 Not that the little place itself 

 had lost any of its old-time charm, but 

 the spring of 1921 was a period when 

 most of us were busy dissipating profits 

 we thought we had made during the 

 late great war of wars. We all forgot, 

 apparently, that the war had to be 

 paid for, and that the price was big. 

 It was a time when men had to put 

 every ounce of themselves possible 

 into the oars by which the old boat of 

 business is supposed to be propelled. 

 The worst of it was, no matter how 

 much effort was expended, so strong 

 ran the adverse tides that not only 

 was forward progress quite impossible, 

 but it was only with difficulty one 



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