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Show FORK. UTAH THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH took possession earth to serve as truces behind the sort of Insanity would not be beaten. They was earth of piled palisade; a bank first shrilly nnd then hoarsely up behind It, on which every man who Sad words nnd raucously, encouraging could be spared from other tasks, even words from one to another; In the chiefs themselves, Inbored with stood They profane, desperate. breathless energy. The water was still and dug and and they heuved rising, although the ruin had stopped; there and hurled and hammered the m 'oral drainage would fuse that, piled and mad-buttle a was drove fiercely. It but ti e rise was slower. They saw i that cume Into them. At dawn Vandeventer personally old. I os, It of 1 he the berserker carefully measured the depth of the ways, other In battle a unllk. not watei and go" ed It again. It was a was the northwest of rush the with the below feet for a Bix half top and scant thtinde" of the dam. If the water rose above storm came roaring mighty It lightning. and terrk'ylng vivid tod was It questionable gravely the top literally dnrfo of light If as great hold It at was whether the palisade would Rome gigantic baud beall, yet there was no other way of In- were hurled by creasing the depth of the spillway enough to discharge the flood volume. Working as hard as they coaid, they hnd barely succeeded In raising the earth bunk back of it a foot high. They kept at it unremittingly, although It did not seem to be of much use. Vandeventer, Stafford and Meude gathered together nnd scanned the sky, seeking to discern the signs of the time, the purpose of the heavens. It was clearer In the east The clouds to the northwestward were In violent acLightning flashed tion apparently. over the great range nnd them through Itself; low, muttered peals of thunder came down from the peaks lost to sight In the blackness overhond. They observed all this carefully and Vnnde-vente- r turned away, shaking his bead, I dont know," he began the three of them were over on the east side the better to see up the valley "It looks pretty .bad, doesnt It?" It dws," answered Meade, while Stafford nodded his head. And, by the way, Stafford, have you notified the town and the bridge people of the danger and bid them prepare Sat K, n. 1 , CYRUS TOWNSEND AUTHOR THC CHAUCC Of DRADY r.-- -- COURAGC "THE ULAHO Of RKCNEX ATIO' ETC., AND CYRUS TOpSEND DRADY JR tnmun. $ contidrer runmunnu BERTRAM MEADE FACES ANOTHER GREAT conwutr CRISIS AND APPARENTLY DESERTS HIS SUPERIOR AT THE .CRITICAL PERIOD Following tin collapse of on International Wrldge which his fa ther, a noted engineer, had planned, and the old mans sudden death from disgrace and shock, Bertram Meade takes the blame for the disaster which cost many lives and dlsappuurs from his home In New York, lie goes to the southwest, gets a Job under tho name of Roberts on an Irrigation dura project and makes good. Meanwhile, Helen Illingworth, Meades sweetheart, and Rodney, an old friend, are quietly working to clear the young mans name and learn his whereabouts. They are particularly anxious to get hold of a letter written by the cider Meade to assume responsibility for the accident. This paper Is hecretly held by Sliurtllff, who had been the old mans devoted private secretary for ninny years. This Installment opens with tho threat of disaster to the dum through flooding by cloudburst. CHAPTER the water were as high as the top there'd only be two feet of head In the The lantern was standing on the uncompleted and that spillway, roadway on top of the dam. A man wouldnt be enough to discharge It at was kneeling beyond it, his figure seen the rate Its been coming In." for Of course," said Vandeventer . Iitr dimly In the faint light of the lantern, tried to telephone them a while lie was staring Intently down the thoughtfully. "And If the dam goes,' ago, but connection hus been brofront of the dam at the water. The he added, there are tea miles of back ken ; the the storm has played havoc with lantern was near the edge and It faint- water up there and millions of cubic the line probably," answered the asly Illuminated the black, yards impounded, which would sweep sistant engineer. surface below. Vandeventer reultzed down tho valley. There wouldn't be Well, whut did you do then?" asked with a shock of horror how much more a thing left of the camp, the town, the Vandeventer a little Impatiently. rapid the rise had been. A quick estl new railroad bridge, or anything else. I sent a man down on horseback In mate convinced him that the level of Coming on top of the International, warn them that If It rains the water was now wltlda eight or nine the loss of this big end expensive via- a hurry todam the go, and If It did again feet of the dam and It was still rain- duct would about finish the Martlet It would withmight a ; that the water rush go ing 1 company," said Meade thoughtlessly. was now only six feet below the level, The face of the kneeling man was Vandeventer looked at him sharply. on the hidden by a souwester and he had on An Idea suddenly came to him. Meade and that they had better get up hills. Of course, last nights ruin must bad turned away his head as he real- have made the road almost heavy black rubber raincoat Impassable, reached over and touched ized bis slip, so he did not observe the but he to get there by nine onght him on the shoulder. In Vandeventers eyes. However, light him to tell the Martlet What are you doing here?", he tho resident engineer was a good sorb oclock, I told to take whatever steps they people asked. You are Hghb" he suid quickly. I The kneeling man sprang up with an hate to call outthe men, but we've got could devise to bold their viaduct and machinery, answered Stafford, exclamation. It was Monde. The re- a little chance, now the rnln bus their as he turned and walked toward his lief In Vundeventers mind was great stopped, and we can work to advantage own part of the dam. at the recognition. In spite of all this awful mud" he liftexclaimed Vandeventer. Good," I Just curae out to look at the wa- ed his foot up and disclosed It caked "Theres left for us to do but nothing ter. I couldnt sleep with all thnt and clogged with masses. "I'll take keep on." pounding on the Iron root of the quar- charge In the center here, and Stafford The resident engineer looked white on the left, and I'm going to give you ters, ao 1 dressed and came out and haggard. Although it was cold Vandeventer opened the slide of his charge of the east end of the dam, over and raw in the wet air, he wiped the own lantern and threw the light ou the by the spillway. If only thoso drills sweat from Ills forehead. had been here six weeks ago. reservoir. The men are doing splendidly, sir," VA might set the men to work on "Its risen eight or ten feet since' we r said Meade,' saw It and with this rain " that rock now," said Meade. Yes," said Vandeventer, "many of Its not coming down so hard as It would be useless. Theres too them have their wives and children It was when I first came out here," much of lb No, if we're going to save back In the town. Some of the Italaid Meade. I think you can see it the dam, were got to build it up and ians have bought land on the prairie slackening yourself. try to keep ahead of the waters If and are going to settle here. Theyre ' Yes, said the resident engineer, they rise any more. The higher we fighting for everything theyve got on listening a moment I believe It Is. If can build it the greater will be the earth. What do you think of the It stops now, he continued thought-- , head on the spillway, and the more chances of this palisade of oars?" will be discharged. Ill turn the men fully, we ought to be safe." Meade shook his head. Yes, I think so," answered Meade. out at once. Its all we can do, Blr, but if the But what are you going to do?" In the night alone, together In that water rises more thanr seven or eight I'm going to palisade the top of the feet" erlsts In their fortunes, the two men were Interchanging thoughts and Ideas dam. There's plenty of timber already Say It," said Vandeventer. on' terms of perfect equality. It did cut down, and we will cut a lot of The dam would go like a house of not occur to Vandeventer to question young pines and build a palisade wall cards." why, and that they were doing so of timber across the top three or four Exactly. And look at that cloudaroused no surprise la the mind of feet back from the edge. Well bonked bank over there In the northwest Its on the downstream side, It may hold. Meade. spreading." "It might be worth while to line that Of course," continued Meade, even What wind there Is," said Meade, If It docs stop raining weU continue palisade with galvanized Iron sheets moistening his finger and holding it to get n lot of runoff from the water- from the houses." said Meade. up to feel the direction, Is blowing A good- - Idea," said Vandeventer, the opposite way down here, but shed for some time." you 'and well pile what underbrush and can't tell what Is happening up there. Yes," said the resident engineer, that of course, but If the rain stops small stuff we have In front of the Well, all we can do la to fight on." And fight they did. It was almost at everywhere we can scarcely have a palisade and heap what rocks we can rise of more than five or six feet, and find on top of thnt, and well bunk it first sight like the hand of man that would still be a little below the up on the other side with earth. Its a the hand of God. There was noagainst more poor dependence, but It will hold for a room for engineering expedient It spillway." Its stopping here now," pointed out while anyway, and every moment of was chop and hew, break and pound, Meade, and, ludeed, the force of, the tfme may be precious." HOw about sandbags, sir?" downpour was greatly diminished. "We've got a few hundred cement The two stood watching the dam and the black lake beyond It In silence for bags, but not enough. I wish we had a few moments until the rain practical- a few thousund ; however, we will fill ly censed. The air was misty and heavy what we have, and If the water rises with moisture, but the rnln was cer- and begins to trickle over the top and through the palisade, we'll Jam those tainly over for the time at any rate. Thank goodness," said the resident down at the danger points. Can you Now if Its suggest anything more?" engineer In great relief. Nothing." stopped everywhere well be oil right." Good. Well turn out the men. Inclined Fra and said Meade, Yes," to think It hns stopped everywhere. Theyve had six hours sleep anyway". Whoever thought It would rnln In JanCHAPTER XV. uary here? There hasnt a drop, to apeak of, fallen In January for twenty The Battle. years, or since there have been any It was now three o'clock In the records. Why In heavens name It morning. In about half an hour the bad to come now 2 dont see." Look here, Roberts," said Vnnde-vent- men, naturally grumbling and protestsuddenly, "you know youre a ing at being deprived of any of their ' s sleep, were out and at work. Lanterns engineer." were lighted everywhere. The rain Meade shook his head. You cant fool me, said the older hnd fortunutely not resumed, nnd the man. I've watched you. You know nlr was soon filled with noise and conmore alraut the gamo than anybody fusion. Men with axes were busy on here except myself. You dont choose the hillside cutting the young pines. to confide In me, although I like you, Horses were hitched to the dump wagons, the steam shovel began touring ami I am in a position to help you." away the hillside. Some of the men I appreciate what you say, Mr. relurned the other; "there were detailed to knock down some A Man Was Kneeling Beyond It Is do one to whom I should rather tell of tho galvanized Iron houses and the the whole story than to you, but I battering of the hammers on the metal dig and drive, curry and pile. Throw-luadded to the din. off his coat, Vandeventer seized a cant not yet." Under Vandeventers personal direc- spade and begun to work llko Well, keep your own counsel, but any If you ever want a friend, count ou me ; tion a row of stakes was driven Into other laborer, and the rest of the ami the top of the dam about three feet higher men followed his example. meanwhile, as a man of experience from the front of It. Big sheets of At six oclock the blackness hanging ability, what would you do?" Get out the men and build up a overlapping galvanized iron were In the northwest begun to turn their temporary dam on the top of the road- nailed roughly to the fronts of the way. It was coining down the mounto over flow to the firmly bedded stakes and the small tain. It was headed for the turn the way here, valley. cast bank and make the spillway do branches and brushwood were thrown Vandeventer saw it, every teamster, down before Bowlders It. more work." and big every common laborer saw It. It was stones were carried out on tho dum In coming. Unless heaven Itself InterBut the rala has stopped." ' And la til probability will stay the wagons and thrown down on the fered there would be more rnln. They stopped still you never can tell. A brushwood; spare timbers, broken hnd worked desperately before, but few more hours of rain like that weve wagon beds, old wheels, Joists of dis- now they applied themselves to their Lad and tu whole thing would go. If membered houses were driven Into the tasks with a kind of wild fury, a XIV. Continued. ratn-lashe- d Van-devent- er . er first-clas- g , And Shook His Fist at the Sky. hind ths black screen of sweeping cloud down upon the granite mountains. They saw splinters of fire where the thunderbolts struck. The pealing of thunder was appalling. Their frail pallsude backing was not It must be raining half completed. somewhere, for the water was still slowly rising. It was five and a half feet now from the crest It was hopeless If another rala fell, and the rain was coming. There was an added chill In the still air of the valley as the stonn drove down upon them. A few of the fainter hearts flung down 'pick and shovel and ax and stood craven. Oaths, curses, blows even, from those of the braver sort shamed them Into work again. These brave hearts and true might be swept away with the dam If It gave way, but they would not give up, and no man working with them should flee his task or shirk his duty. By the living God, whose sport and plaything they seemed to be, they swore It; and so weak and strong, Ixdd and timid labored on desper-nt- k resolved, godlike la their cour H and, persistence. . . p The clouds were moving swiftly now. To the east It had been clear, but now it was also black, and then with a roar greater even than a thousand thunderclaps, the wind tore down the mountains, through the narrow canyons, Into the valleys, shrieking la the pines, and fell upon them and hurled them down and brushed them back. And after the wind, the rain. A drop or two struck Vandeventers cheek; another, another, and then the flood. He lifted his head and stared and shook his fist at the sky sad turned to the human termites he commanded. "Carry on, carry on, boys," he cried, shrieking to be heard above the thunder peals, well beat It yet. A cheer rose about him and was enught up and ran along the top of the great dam. The yell was such a cry as men might give vent to In the heat of bottle, the excitement of wild charge, and then they fell to It again. The more Ignorant, unaware of the feebleness of the palisade, the more knowing Indifferent to It, seeing only the Job, alike realized only their duty to fight on, to answer the appeal to their manhood, to refuse to admit defeat even when life trembled la the balance. Yes, to use the ancient simile again, the fountains of the great deep were broken open. What had befallen them before was nothing to this. The hard rain of the night seemed trifling compared to this avulan-i- e of water. This was a cloudburst indeed. And to niuke It worse, to make their task harder, to render their efforts useless, the high wind roaring down the valley plied the water up and drove It in thunderous assaulting waves against the great mound of earth on which the men struggled and Inbored frantically Vandeventer. shovel In hand he did hot dare to throw It down, lest his be misconstrued went from gang to gang, from man to man, talking to them, appealing to them, pointing out weaknesses here and there, Inspiring them, holding them up as a man might hold a stricken line against the of a victorious and overwhelming force. Anil against wind and ruin In thnt thick darkness, blinded by the flushing lightning, stunned by the pealing thunder, with zeul superlmuiun they tolled on and on nnd on. ltnck and forth went tho chief, show-in- g himself a leader of lenders, nnd wherever he stopped the fury nml desperation of the effort to stem the tide Inereused. When he cume plmldlng ulong the muddy roadway to the purt committed to Meade he did not find the engineer. "Wheres Roberts?" he yelled above the noise of the storm. He and two men have gone, sir." "Gone?" cried Vandeventer, cut to the heart at what he thought was a desertion. "Well," he shouted, reullz-lu- g there was nothing he could do then and that he hud neither brenth nor . half-maniac- uc-tl- time to waste, "there's more nerd for the rest of us to take their places. He drew s nmn or two from the this danger other gangs to their work. directed himself point anil Now It takes time for water to rise five feet, even In a cloudburst or a succession of them. Tho rain constantos the wind ly seemed to Increase drove It on. Vandeventer knew thut the dam wus doomed, that the sluice spillway comnnd the bined could discharge only a small part of the flow, but he knew that he would have two hours at least to work before the water could puss the crest,e undermine, and bather down the pull-sidnnd begin to trickle over. Just as soon as It did roll over tlw top, unless they could stop it, the whole twtf hours thing was gone. For those the supermen labored unremittingly In the downpour with a persistent nnd heroic courage thut should have been recorded In song and story but which wus not It was' remembered after a while by hone save a few. To the many It wa only all In tho duys work 1" The undersluice In the side of the head-gat- e d'yn which would later serve as for the canal had been Intended to pass the smaller floods which might occur during the construction and hud been open since the rain began. It cnrrled off a great volume of water, but hopelessly little In comparison with the flood. , Foot by foot In the torrential dow npour the water rose. At half after eight it reached the level of the spillway and commenced to rush volume, but through In the flow Into the reservoir was fur greater than the spillways capacity. Still the sight of the rushing water encouraged the men. Every .one of them felt that if the palisade held the discharge would be increased enough to stop the rise, but at present the effect was small. By nine o'clock It was within a foot of the top. They began to measure Its rise by Inches. Although the dam had been carefully kept level as It was built, the trample of horses and men, the present digging and palisading and revetting had caused little depressions. Now the water rose to the level. Here and there It began to trickle over I The rain coming down from the mountain tops was as cold as Ice, yet the men were In a fever of excitement. They had got their second wind. They were too enthused, too desperate, to feci their weariness. They had not worked before as they did then. It was the last possible nervous outburst with most of them. They could keep It up a little longer till they dropped dead. As the road thoroughbred falls in his stride on the track, pushed beyond his power of endurance, as even the common carthorse can be made to go until he drops, so these men, white, sweat haggard, nervous, drawn-fneemingling with the rain on their' sodden bodies, would go till they broke. They had not tjnlta reached that point yet There were some five hundred heavy cement bags which had been filled with sand and plied up on the roadway at convenient points. As a forlorn hope, as a last try, Vandeventer called all the diggers and ditchers, and hewers and drivers, and bade them tackle the sandbags. The. timber wall that rose to four or five feet was now packed to a height of three with an unequal wall half-finishe- d g nnd threw themselves sade, wet and chilled from i but yet madly, reckless!, and foreigners alike. The. It by main strength j ute, they swore, oblivion?' that Just as soon as It 11 fgo with a rush. The stockade would be first, and they would go with j. '1 of that? The meu back of i ttv.-- . .J' S ft "'l - Enemy'8 Ale 3 their brawny arms against wind, the powers of agaSiH powers of God,' but not mofi? 1 Is perhaps doubtful if what they did. It was lnsttneX? blind desperation now. Tf I wall failed under the terrlfJ ,t9 pressure, they would be hurleu s it, swept down the slope of th. burled in the debris as it away, caught up If they by anv survived so far, nnd hurled, broken battered, down the valley in rible flood that would easu did they know about that, or what did they care, os they ltr5 at the wavering timber wall , still they held as the ruin poured j stunni Kalse plosion denti L T lornloi attack v till u,ori n j ic 1' fine In Germun In the 1' The gwure tl on them, sonklng through their . clothes, the colder on their bodies for the keen wind that v4! fpeniink'l driven f hold on Yf old ivensed been I hr across them. Well, thgy hnd done everythin? could. Vandeventer Jumped do pressed himself agulnst the timber with the men and waited, sit ne hnd never sustained such sure in all his life. Like AtJt felt as If he were holding up g And the mocking thing about It I was his feeling, nny his reallatu that he was not really holding u thing, thnt If the palisades failed. L pressure, his resistance and that of in the other men amounted to nothin Yet he held on, and they, ie Germnn1 w r t TO 1." h,Tj tluwln, heeded rimi , Vf w, allied o man. f her, lfll and v llyluil tlon tn oven10" It too-s- w Prloi gods. hondmr child's turned CHAPTER XVI. F Ths Ancient Art of Fasclnstlos. And much of the last wild harriaxl of work took place under the obsern tlon of a woman I From the top of the big mess then I was a clear view of the new reservoir, from the dam on one side far back the hills on the other. In spite 1 the tremendous downpour and dal fierce gale Helen Hlingworth stood a I posed to both attacks, and. Indeed, Is into different to them albeit protected slicker and boots and souwesteMu clnated by the titanic struggle betvee I nature and man of which she wu 1 witness. v The general Investigation by Rodney I and Miss Illingworth had produced b 1 1 Rood the here nn,i .k" wall light, wer, lie cuIa ',0 . imin n, i n2, finothoi th y caught the i h- hnd bei sent 0 pin. The cendlui lend h tiuinbe femlini ahnipn rapidlt the foi Mini dig nn C It w pmne The like n The Three were would The settln be In been there whlel ltghtr the g illy t non. ously doud vety Helen Illingworth Stood Both Attacks. no results. A Exposed t On fiml careful study of End had only neys notes upon the subject served the more thoroughly to convlnct them that McHde was blameless. the most assiduous effort with th heartiest will la the world and tbs promptings of devotion and affectios could not make a fnse out of tho thnt suggestions and thefr Inferences not would hold water. They could tabllsh their contention beyond perw venture In the face of Meade's direct admission and ShurtUtTs corroboration. They could not establish It In thj public mint) by nny evidence at Ml Meade anil Sliurtllff remained sfleot-Ieither one or the other of the t tw conspirators could be brought to the truth, Meade could be restored. least sufficiently so for the purpose argument; the argument that U11 mate Illingworth sooner or later must to her father. It was that to which gave the most thought, It was for th she planned nnd longed. Two people cannot resolve, even mutual consent to dismiss from thw dally thought and conversation subject whatsoever without Intromit' ng la place of It a certuln const1'1 It is as futile to attempt to dsm hunl anything absolutely from the cure I mind as Is the rheumatism doing certuln minP without thinking of the dlseuse to bo cured 1 train of h diets tnd Ante Kr lazy, cemi bit knot ly long tlrel raid wnn holil f D fror of pr! lee trt fian met ape den of bur hy i lot eni mil ah ct fro . Tho next Installment biM th climax of the story. Ths most Important developments J th lives of Meads and la friends tro described. to bll 81 Ti n (To ms ftt CONTINUED.) Old Stuff. scientist cun take one reconstruct a dinosaur." - pended The the an 1 -- war. eight A Oti(5 as dnwi and nli vieliiui more hags of ""'""It This phislvi Annin, dawn, of re1 un. C rr! fought a more. J,l9re nw . the Into of earth. The waves were beginning to roll against the rampart, although their force as yet was broken by the brushwood. Vandeventer jumped up on the palisade near the center. There were some large logs there where he could stand, and whence he could get as clear a view of the whole top of the dum as was possible through the driving rain. There, shouted the engineer, pointing to a red trickle It seemed to him like blood, taking Its hideous hue from the red clay of the banks-wh- ere the water had found a low spot and was washing across the top and trickling through the new wall and down on the other side. Even ns he pointed, the trickle became a stream and the stream bade fair to be a flood. Men ran and dropped sandbags over In front of the pullsnde, right where the leak hud occurred. Other men heaped up the earth behind tho wall, seeking to smother It and stop It. The w atcr checked there, were forced to do the same thing they at another place. Irn0rfrf,,y Ul,,y dropped their sturdily they plied their shovels niJUl! craUlbIlnK and yelling, 1 i,rU? from 1ok t0 It,uk- - They lift-e- d heavy bags of sand ns If they ad been loaves of bread nnd Jammed TlUy 8Wung 'Ick nn1 mnl nil the yS' Ith0UKh 1,19 Min earth sticky mud nnd J'l'',ork 011 th,f harder. The water u! top of the dam now, I,? C.!,:uroyor sireunilng through '4derUSvinna B.UPBln "snlnst the pall-- ; It did not let the water through tho line of stakes was beginning to bend buckwurd. The men who hnd sandbags and could m no nirl ma the "Thats nothing. bona ,ia Our landlady take one bone und reconsiruit contagion ucr." Louisville Courier-Jo'-''1- - e: ti tv |