The Invisible Gods [antikvár]

THE INVISIBLE GODS Book I: The Unveiling I ON a cool November afternoon in the year 1882, several hundred people were assembling around the colossal, whitely draped fígure of a veiled statue upon a Lincoln Park driveway of the Chicago shore of Laké Michigan. From the reaches of the water out beyond the driveway, and from the men and women arriving before this muffled figure, a murmur arose and feli lightly and steadily alike from nature animate and inanimate: and from the humán speech of the scéhe a listener might soon have discerned that the 6tatue was to represent a man now passed from earth who had been long honored by his fellow creatures. The wife, the widow of General Malcolm Marshfield, was to dedicate a memóriái likeness of her husband to the city. His eldest grandson, Hancock, a boy of six, was to puli the cord unveiling the statue. From the generál murmur of the assembly, and the many family names it mentioned, the name of this child stood out detached by such comment as, "O, yes, his mother died when he was only a year old." "Yes, he is the only child the