The Minions of Midas

Download or read book The Minions of Midas written by Jack London and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Atsheler is dead—dead by his own hand. To say that this was entirely unexpected by the small coterie which knew him, would be to say an untruth; and yet never once had we, his intimates, ever canvassed the idea. Rather had we been prepared for it in some incomprehensible subconscious way. Before the perpetration of the deed, its possibility is remotest from our thoughts; but when we did know that he was dead, it seemed, somehow, that we had understood and looked forward to it all the time. This, by retrospective analysis, we could easily explain by the fact of his great trouble.