Hintzen made so much money over at Forest City that he left for Arizona,
where he invested in copper, and lost everything he had. Haggerty, who
remained in his store at Moore's Flat, where he had made money rapidly,
speculated and lost all, including the savings of a few poor people who
had trusted him. Henry Francis speculated in the stock of the famous
Comstock mine, in the adjoining State of Nevada, lost the fortune he had
wrongfully acquired, and died broken-hearted. It was only six years
after Palmer's death that he collapsed, and was taken home to
Reedsville, Pennsylvania.
Here, ostensibly the victim of tuberculosis, he lingered a year to taste
the bitterness of poverty and wretchedness. Then he died, and suffered
the usual eulogy poured out by country ministers.
A charitable author must admit the virtues of his "heavy-villain." The
sun rises upon the evil and the good, and rain descends upon the just
and the unjust, for the simple reason, no doubt, that no other
arrangement would be possible, inasmuch as there are no people who are
entirely good and none who are wholly bad. In every man the forces of
good and evil are at war.
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