Excerpt from The Road of Ambition

To Big Bill Matthews the Bethel Steel Works spelt Power with a capital "P" - Power to fill ones stomach - to warm one's home - to clothe one's body. That row of grimy buildings, whose chimneys belched forth flame-shot smoke thrilled him strangely - thrilled him without his knowing why.

He loved the roar of the hungry furnaces - the little flame tongues, curled venomously about the edges of the iron doors shut fast on them - always trying to get out - those flames like something captive. That was it the feeling that you had bottled up with your own two hands a devil that would finish you mighty quick if ever you let it loose!

It was not unlike a beast - beautiful, treacherous, sleek - ready to spring at the hand that fed it - watching its chance to tear you to pieces - to grind you to bits, but cowering at the touch of a finger, the glance of an eye.

Danger - danger - always danger.

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