Show It j 1 he 0 adm aters Story tor y yB BY B Y FRANK F RAN K f S PEA R MAN I T r 1 Y AUNTS father was k section foremen When i fi 1 Hailey was waa a kid he be got Ot into omo ioe 1 doing errands but bat whenever w Dever he be saw a draughts draughtsman man at t work he was no good SOCK for errands errs At 3 ch times time he went all into a mental tangle that neither be thrashed ncr ner kicked out of Main him and a d Brodie since he could do nothing n etee With final finally kicked him into learning leaP Jac to read WS t tI d S pher her Brodie called it Then by and by byan aps s gt Qt an old table and part p rt of ot a cake take of ot India Ink tole D and himself became a draughtsman and lid 8 chief hiet draughtsman in m office Halley Hailey was wasa no ao 0 college man Halley was a Brodie man noun Single Sina e mind mild mindon mildon I on single l mind concentration absolute Mathematics t 1 ics kL drawing bridges brains that was Hailey Oil I that Brodie knew Hailey Halley had hd from him and aDd where j Brodie was weak w ak H Hai Hailey y was strong master ma teT of ot him himself J self When Brodie showed the image he be was made In Raile Halley bid hid tile shams shame as ae best he could and Brodie rodie who Woo hated even himself showed still sUll a light in the reck by molding Halley Halle to his work ork FOr Tor lI r one day said Bald Brodie ia is hit his heart this boy shall s be master of these bridges bridge When I am not he will win be here what 1 ought to 10 have been tha Irish boy bo and they will say he be was Brodies Brodie s man Horn And better be t r than any of r their eastern graduates gr duat s he shall be if ii he ae was made engineer ser by b y a drunkard And Halley Hailey was Wa better far far getter oetter than the graduates better than Brodie and to Hail y came cam the time to wrestle the Spider Water All AJI Brodie knew all the Indians knew all t that a aLife life litell a experience nce eating living watching sleeping with frith the big river ha hat had 1 taught him that Hailey Halley Knew k ew Ai l when hen Brodies s 11 bridge went out Halley Bailey was r ready with hi new bridge It was to be such a bridge aM Brodie 1 l die bridge with the firewater left out Bi But t the coet The directors jumped their table able when they saw the figures figUIe We were being milked m oPt that tra time timeto to put it bluntly being sucked by y a ain aaU aWall Wall in aU street clique that robbed our good road shaved our salaries impoverished it our equipment ant and cat eat catl eato l o ur it maintenance maint nance to the th quick They talked economy ec nomy a and id studied piracy pira y When Hailey ley demanded a u a 1 hand and guilders for his Spider Water bridge tINT laugh laughed 4 and said saM Come C take fifty My He ki kido do anything else and aDd be built buOt a to oar the Spiders crawl It 1 meted lasted really better bettor then than t Q the average u bridge But th the dream of Baileys life tale le we e all u knew kew and the Sioux would have said Bald the Spider knew was O Oto to build a final bridge over ever the Spider Water Vater a a b bridge bd ge to throttle it for all time i Haier would taRt talk Spider bridge to a Chinaman Isis Hi His bridge foreman Ed a staring big one French Frenell Canadian actually had bad but two ideas in life Rte one was wan Halley the other the Spider bridge When the management ment changed fin again finan n and anG a great reat and andI I s man m an took control of the system Ed Kd kicked his little water spaniel in is I a frenzy oC of delight Now Sport old boy he exclaimed tt well wen get the bridge So there were many long wn conferences at t division headquarters bf between b tween Bucks superintendent and Callahan assistant and aDd Bailey Haile Halle superintendent of or oft ridges fridges t and afterward Halley Hailey went once more to gen general 1 J eral Hal headquarters lugging all his estimates revised and an ail his hie hl plans plana The new n w president as befitted be a very big man re dyed Hailey Halley with considerate te dignity He listened d to the superintendents statement of the necessities at the Big Sandy river The amount looked lars large la labut but the argument supported by a mass of or statistics was vas convincing Baileys budget called caned too for a ai au i u 11 e W bridge at the Peace river and a race good J OI one Halley Bailey stayed over to await the decision He haunted the general offices until the told him he could have h ve the money The wire flashed the word to te the west end Everybody Eve body at M the was glad Tut lut l ut Hd Iid aed ed rad list 4 i i 1 ate rattlesnake Old Denis Dents alley Hattey went wem very near JWU 1 crazy Tazy He resigned Ded as as section boss and took at smaller gm wages in the bridge carpenters gang so soho ho hI could work on the boys bridge bridgeFor bridgeFor bridgeFor For a wonder the bridge material came in fast and aDd early in the th summer Halley Hailey very quietly and ti Iry rv ry profane moved moed into construction headquarters at a t the Spider and the first airlock ever sunk west of the Missouri closed over the heads of tall taU Halley Bailey and big Ed Perio The blowpipes never ne er slept night and da day the th sand streamed from below and Haneys eats cais 5 Fons sunk foot by foot toward the rock By the middle of September the masonry was crowding crow ing high highwater u ater water mark and the following Saturday Halley Hailey and ran back to Medicine Bend to rest up a bit and aKl gt g t acquainted with their families Halley looked ragged and thin like the old depot but immensely happy e Sunday was a day to get your feet on the tables table Mp up p in Bucks office and smoke Callahans Cavendish f Tucks bucks would open the R BB R B mall mail and read the tM aloud for the benefit of or Callahan and an l Halley Hailey a 11 id d such han erson as Foote and aDd an occasional stray t i Hello Helo e exclaimed Bucks Heres a general or 01 d derNo rNo No 14 The boys drew their briers like one Bucks Bock read readout readout readout out a lot of stuff that touch our end and aBd then this thi paragraph he hf reached The mountain and ancI the intermountain divisions are hereby consolidated coo under the name of the moun moon mountain mount tain t in division with th J 1 F Bucks as superintendent su headquarters headquarter at Medicine Bend C T Callahan is appointed assistant as superintendent of the new ne diVision di dl div islon Vision v Well WeH well wen well said hi Hailey Halley opening his ale eyes Heres Here promotions right and aDd left eft 00 H P Agnew is appointed superintendent of bridges of or the sew ew lew division lon with headquarters at Omaha vice P C Hailey Halley Bucks read on Oft Then he here re rEad id fast looking for some seine further mention of at Halley Halley promoted transferred assigned Ul but there 1 was vas no further mention of Halley Hailey Bucks threw down clown the order in a silence Ed Bd broke out first H P Canoe Agnew W 1 Who the he bell hell is hs he her roared Ed Nobody an aD answered answered nobody knew Bucks attempted to talk Cal CaI Callahan Callahan lahan 1 ban lit Ut his lighted pipe b OUt but t Ed Bd Peelo stared Mated at Halley Hailey like a drunken man Did you hear that he snorted at his al superior Hailey Balky nodded Youre out stormed Im Tm glad were up to high water at the Spider S lder said Bald he at last Whai they get et in the Peace river work the division will win run for itself for fot a year Halley Hailey Bucks spoke slowly I dont need to tell tl 11 you what I 1 think of it do I Its Us a damned shame Bailey Halley rose l NIe to his hla feet Where you going Phil Ph 7 asked Bucks Going back to the Snider on OIl No 2 r Not going back heck this morning why dont you yo wait for No 4 tonight r suggested su ted Bucks Ed Halley Hailey raised rallied his voice at the foreman will willou jou Sou ou get et those there stay bolts and chuck them into to the baggage bag car ear for me on No 2 Im rm going over to the house bouse for a minute He forgot to answer Bucks they knew what it meant He was bracing himself to te tell the folks before he left them preparing to tell the wife and the old man manthan than he was out Out of the railroad system y tem be he had bad given his life to help heap build up Out of the position he had bad climbed to by studying stud like a hermit and working like Uke a hobo ho Out Oat without criticism or allegation tion or reason simply like a dog out Callahan l with Bucks tried to figure what It meant nt I know mow why they did it Bucks said eaid slowly hot bet hotI betI I tell ten Bailey Hailey Why I r think I r know why Last time I 1 wa was down wn the president t brought his name up 1 and asked keel a lot of e questions about where here be he was educated a so on OD onI ODI onI I gave him the facts told him that Brodie bad had given him his education eP as II an engineer The minute he be found round nut out he regularly re graduated be he froze frose up Very polite pom but he froze up See Experience actual 1 T experiments mn nothing nothing As he hf concluded Hailey was climbing behind his hJ father irto into the smoker sJ ker No 2 pulled ull down the yard and out ut of One thing Hailey meant to make sure IDIn of that they thet beat bf at him out of tile the finish of the t Spider r bridge as h he had planned it one monument t Halley Haile meant to b N e one he be has bas The Th new superintendent of bridges took hold promptly prompt I He was wu P a good goad enough fellow I 1 guess geese but W we v all hated him Burks Ruck did the civil though and took Agnew gnew down to the Spider in a special to inspect the new work ork and introduce nt reduce him hin to the man whose bread and opportunity he was wu taking There Them a mean n drop anywhere in blood and he mad made TIO no trouble whatever for his successor A Attar t r he ht let go on the west nest end Halley Hailey talked as asIf asIf If f h i w c jM look no u something H further east but butu Bu u Us s t 4 l 1 him frankly he would world find difficulty with without without out j tHur u sr r degree Hailey y himself realized that totes er r he h seemed reluctant to quit the mountains 5 T F Ft t c JJ v vS vL rS L G 0 S 11 o r I T 5 S S I r iti itie e i I oc I 1 0 t tS tc I E AND TENDER AND IN THE PLUNGED HEAD ON INTO THE PLACE S c yr k s t He H re a ds abound Bd the cartage e and a the like a anan an nan n who wh has lost something and as who lo loo for it j abstractedly edly But there were lusty little over over I at the Ule cottage to be looked after and Bucks losing Osing a Do or orr r about ab ut that time asked ask d Haley H U after r chewing g it a long 1 Dg time with tp take ake t tie the d place himself and aDd stay sta on the staff s OJ 1 I know it seem just right t Bucks Bricks Jl ut t it t 1 I Iut but hut ut Halley IaU y you OU must BlUSt remember this thin thing At Omaha going Bering to test laid They rant cant run a road read like this w with ith Harvard graduates and anil B Boston ston type typewriters typewriters writers Therell be b an entire ties new n w deal down don there some fine day da Stay here with me IDe and aDd m n say tb Hailey Halley if It I go over yen yea eHg go with me mend And nd Halley Hailey sitting with his head between 1 kilt his hands listening listen inS to his wife and to Bucks B saM said day da Enough and the 1st of the month reported for duty as road master Agnew meantime me had stopped all aU allwork work not too far along to discontinue The budge bridge atthe at atthe at atthe the Spider fortunately was beyond his mandate It was finished to a rivet riv t as Halter Halley had tad planned ft tit Three spans two pi pl piers rs and aDd a pair of abutments ell ellas d das as the But the Peace river canyon yam w caught in the air Halls caissons gave way yay to tAt piles which pulled the cost down from SS to ta 75 anti and incidentally it was breathed that the ay for extravagant expenditures on the west ewe end wa Eucks pee past and aDd Bucks dipped a bit deeper than usual 1 into aea Callahans Callahan s box of crosscut and ram this the leaf into his brier a bit harder and said tI sai 64 no word ward But if we lose just one more bridge its ifs goodby and gone bone goed ne to the California fast freight ht muttered mu Callahan We had no winter that year till spring m and no spring till tin summer and it was a spring of ot stir snow and anda a summer r of or water Down below the plains plain were wire i isnow in snow even after alter Easter After that the snow no i letup 1 set let setup t tl l up it was then no longer a matter of k kline r line clear dear it was a matter of lashing the track tra It to the tM right of way to keep it from swimming dear deI r Halley Hailey caught it worse than anybody but he be worked like two men for in ina a pinch that was his way Y Bucks leaned on the wry as he dill did d on sa Callahan or Neighbor Hailey Haney knew Bucks BU ks looked to him lim for the track and he be strained every ever nerve ine ing ready for the time the mountain snows d go out Now No the Spider wakes regularly twice tICe at lOt att times irregularly Once On e in April tb that t is the e toot foot foothills f et hills water ater tt once in June Jape that is the t e mountain water Now came an April without any rise that t nothing rose except the snow We shall set het et It k sm stilE c cOr together suggested ed Bucks one night Or will it get us liS altogether asked Halley Hailey Either way said Callahan it will be mostly at once May Ma opened o ned bleaker than April Even the tracks track men walked with set faces the dirtiest halfbreed half breed aa as the line knew now what hat the mountains held At t last while white we looked and wondered came a very late tete chinook July in May then the water Section gangs were doubled and track walkers pat put paton on bridge crews strengthened everything budded for grief Gullies began to race culverts to choke choices creeks to tumble rivers to madden From the X Muddy to the Summit the water courses swelled and boiled all but the Spider the big river sl slept pt Through May and into June the Spider slept but Halley Hailey was there thereat at the always and with one eye running over ov r the line one eye turned always to the Spider er where two men night and day watched the laay w face water trickle over oer and through the vagabond bed between monumental piers East E st sue ana west of us railroads everywhere clamored in despair de pair The flood reached over the to the An heIdee Our trains trams never missed a trip our schedules sched were unbroken our people laughed we got the business bu dead loads of it our treasury flowed over a 1 Halley watched and the Spider slept Dept DeptOn On the there was trouble beyond the th Wild Hat and all our extra men put p t out there under u Halley Hatley were were fighting to hold the Rat valley vaI levels Bucks sent Hailey Halley over there because he sent Halley Hattey wherever the emperor sent Ney Sunday Jf While e Halley Hailey was at Wild Hat it began raining Sunday it rained Monday it rained all aU through the mountains Tuesday it was raining from Omaha u to to Eagle E Ie and the Spider woke n at the bridge Tuesday night flagged No NoI 1 I 1 and reported the river wild and sheet ice tee A Aire wire from Bucks BUCQ brought bIOUS t Halley Hailey out of pf the fj aMI into the east to reckon for the the last la t time lulu lulua a ie enemY e y Writ mit All Ali i t n anti tb the n net suli suI n roar rear of the tile giant gl nt powder shook the jails J MS Twit Twig mo moray days he spent there watching then theft Jw he wired d Ice out and set back dragged and silent for forborne home and for sleep Saturday night he b slept and aDd Sunday all day da and Sunday night Monday about abeNt noon noon Bucks sent up to ask but Hailey was asleep They asked back whether they should wake kind him Bucks sent w word ord No uNo Tuesday |