Then the tide turned for Ralph Buck-stone. It is enough for me to say that he faced about and became an able and successful author.
Yes, there are still Daniel Websters in America, many of them; there are Griggses and Griggsbys; but our Griggsby is a changed town. The seats of leisure are now occupied by the ladies. They have suffered from the angel theory, and it is their own fault. They look like birds of paradise. I should like to see them give up sweetmeats and idleness, jewels and ethereal raiment, and rejoin the human ranks, not as slaves, but as real women, with a work to do and with all the rights they may desire.
In a recent humorous account of the old Cadets of Temperance Ralph concluded with these words:
“My subsequent career is well known, but, alas, poor Havelock!”
End of Project Gutenberg's The Turning of Griggsby, by Irving Bacheller