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                     JUGGERNAUT

                  A Veiled Record


    BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON AND DOLORES MARBOURG


    NEW YORK
    FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT

    1891

    COPYRIGHT IN 1891, BY
    GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
           AND
      DOLORES MARBOURG

    _All Rights Reserved_


                    To Madame




JUGGERNAUT:

A VEILED RECORD.




I.


Edgar Braine was never so blithe in all his life as on the morning of
his suicide.

Years after, in the swirl and tumult of his extraordinary career, the
memory of that June morning, and of the mood in which he greeted it,
would rush upon him as a flood, and for the moment drown the eager
voices that besought his attention, distracting his mind for the
briefest fraction of an instant from the complex problems of affairs
with which he wrestled ceaselessly.

In the brief moment during which he allowed the vision of a dead past
thus to invade his mind, he would recall every detail of that morning
with photographic accuracy, and more than photographic vividness.

In such moments, he saw himself young, but with a mature man's ambition,
and more than the strength of a man, as he strode sturdily down the
streets of the little Western city, the June sunshine all about him in a
golden glory, while the sunshine within exceeded it a hundredfold.

His mood was exultant, and with reason