Evans Was Quite Unable To Pay The Hundred Dollars Which He Owed
Me, And, To Save Themselves, The Denver Banks, Though They Remain
Open, Have Suspended Payment, And Would Not
Cash My Circular Notes.
The financial straits are very serious,
and the unreasoning panic which has set in makes them worse.
The
present state of matters is - nobody has any money, so nothing is
worth anything. The result to me is that, nolens volens, I must
go up to Estes Park, where I can live without ready money, and
remain there till things change for the better. It does not seem
a very hard fate! Long's Peak rises in purple gloom, and I long
for the cool air and unfettered life of the solitary blue hollow
at its base.
ESTES PARK, November 20.
Would that three notes of admiration were all I need give to my
grand, solitary, uplifted, sublime, remote, beast-haunted lair,
which seems more indescribable than ever; but you will wish to
know how I have sped, and I wish you to know my present singular
circumstances. I left Longmount at eight on Saturday morning,
rather heavily loaded, for in addition to my own luggage I was
asked to carry the mail-bag, which was heavy with newspapers.
Edwards, with his wife and family, were still believed to be
here. A heavy snow-storm was expected, and all the sky - that
vast dome which spans the Plains - was overcast; but over the
mountains it was a deep, still, sad blue, into which snowy peaks
rose sunlighted.
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