I added that I felt very sorry for the man and thought he had been treated rather badly.

Mr.Carnegie answered at once, and on the margin of the letter wrote in lead pencil: "Give McLuckie all the money he wants, but don't mention my name." I wrote to McLuckie immediately, offering him what money he needed, mentioning no sum, but giving him to understand that it would be sufficient to put him on his feet again.

He declined it.

He said he would fight it out and make his own way, which was the right-enough American spirit.

I could not help but admire it in him.
As I remember now, I spoke about him later to a friend, Mr.
J.A.Naugle, the general manager of the Sonora Railway.