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Which, perhaps, begins as follows. As the city editor of the New York Telegram in April 1871, McIlvaine employs a number of free-lance writers, including his most talented, Martin Pemberton, the disinherited son of of the late Augustus Pemberton, a millionaire whose death and funeral had made the papers the previous September. None of the editorial comments or public eulogies mentioned the true sources of the old man's fortune, although McIlvaine the newspaperman knows what they were: Pemberton had run illegal slave ships out of New York harbor, with the connivance of Boss Tweed's ring...
...Martin Pemberton tells McIlvaine and several others, he has seen his father alive, on the streets of Manhattan. The editor at first assumes that the disillusioned young man is speaking in metaphor, that he means his father's evil lives on in the rapacious city all around them. After Martin drops out of sight, McIlvaine begins to investigate and comes to believe the vision could have been true, that a white Municipal Transport stagecoach might actually have carried old Pemberton and other presumed-deceased rich men through the teeming, oblivious streets of Manhattan. McIlvaine imagines Martin's impression...
...tale I had for you ... of aberrant family behavior. I ask you to believe -- I will prove -- that my freelance, finally, was only a reporter bringing the news, like the messenger in Elizabethan dramas ..." His story, the narrator says several times, is "far more than" the mystery of the Pemberton family...
Business Club Treasurer Richard A.Leigh-Pemberton '95 said yesterday that he isconcerned that too many changes could detract fromthe main purpose of the club...
...Harvard Business Club, and we couldjust keep on going with what we are," saidLeigh-Pemberton. "It is hard to reach theconclusion that we need to change anything...