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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: Newmark and his illness, ending finally in a general anathema
against any and all streams, logs, and floods. Then he stormed away
to see if anything had gone wrong at the dredged channel.
"Well," said Tom North, "they've got the old man real good and mad
this time."
The crew went on driving piles, stringing cables, binding chains,
although, now that the inspiration of Orde's combative spirit was
withdrawn the labours seemed useless, futile, a mere filling in of
the time before the supreme moment when they would be called upon to
pay the sacrifice their persistence and loyalty had proffered for
the altar of self-respect and the invincibility of the human Soul.
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