Show 1 an som menow a amassing av when the colorado burst It its spanks banka and a flooded the imperial valley gf california 4 i I 1 BIJ S k EDNAH AH AIKEN r P c copyright bobai mt hlll compasio Com finy paziO SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I 1 K N C rickard an engineer of the overland Il pacific lItle li is called to the office of president tit MiT MaT shall in tuc son ariz casey Is an enigma to the office 0 force lie he weirs wears dude clothes but he lead had resigned a chair 0 of engineering in the haat 0 to o c rn on thi road as a fireman and his promotion hau been spectacular tac ta cular u lar while V hile walling waiting for marshall rick ard reads read s a report on in tho ravages ot of the colorado despite tho corts or of thomas alardin of the desert reclamation comi company this hardin had be been n a student anler clickard and had married gerty s with w whom ioni rick 0 rd had fancied lie he was in love CHAPTER 11 II marshall tells nicu arel the overland pacific has got to step in to savo save the imperial valley and sends him to the break rickard declines deill nes because he dos does not want to supplant liar arar din but la Is won over stop the river damn tho the expense says saya marshall CHAPTER III nickard journeys journe yi to Cal calexico exico sees the irrigated desert and learns much about hardin and hla his work IV at the hotel he meets mr mar and mrs hardin and innel hardin Haril ln hardina Hard lna halt half disappointed in tier her hush tind and an incorrigible coquette coci uette mrs hardin sets her cap for her former lover and invites 3 him to dinner CHAPTER V nickard ickard 11 visits the com banys nys offices and takes control ile ho finds C tho h egi engineers loyal loval to hardin and hostile to him estrada Est a max mablean lean son of the I 1 at other hi ae or of the imperial Imper lil valley tells tella him of the general situation CHAPTER it VI rickard attends i L mee tInEr of the directors and asserts a sorts his authority alardin rages tells ItIc karI of hla his foreboding that lili his work will w 11 fall 1 I can cant t see aeo it finished CHAPTER VII innes Is discovered in her garden she tries to cheer up tip hardin who Is furious against rickard CHAPTER VIII A family luncheon of the Ilar dins which throws light on them IX discovers tin alit rickard Is planning a levee to prot Cal calexico exico and puts him down ns as im cm detent gerty thinks tier her lord loid jealous X tho the bardln dinner to it rickard discloses further the th family hardin Is surly tired sulk biomy in innes rie li js hardly polite G berty arty plaris pi ins a ap progressive ro 1 resolve ride in Rl eliard d honor CHAPTER XI rickard encounters the of the hie campini H engineers ile he Is 1 stirred by the statement ati le men t that this Is the year of a cycle when the orent cheat 1 yellow allow brajon the Cof colorado orado grows restless 11 he maklis various pu hes worl on oil the calexico Cal exico levee and Is order d by bi marhall M a arshall to talie take a fighting diance eli anve on the th e e 0 n I 1 of Ilar dins s pet let project a 0 go bate t e t to u shut the break in the alio river t 1 XI XII T sin san francisco li Is de thierl agetle ay by aarti and iro fire and dredge c in ry w which i rickard I 1 hid ad ordered hardin to have hao shipped Is burned through ji neglect nef elect rickard secretly secre tl equips tee lol ats tower lower as a signal station chaaw uan gerty nordin harbin that loves her and plans a campaign that promises trouble CHAPTER XIV the progressive ride fee begun under adverse condl tlona avind and dust with the guest of honor absent abent then machein Mac Ma Lecin cLein nickard 3 secretary brings bring word that the river Is raging and every man la Is wanted on the levee CHAPTER XV harilan motors off wit with a load of dynamite leaving everything ei en thins in confusion on the levee finneg annei through a friendly engineer issues ordre in tier her brothers name to save tier her brothers face the lawee and the signal tower save calexico Cal exico tin a return ci CHAPTER XVI gerty hardin begins to yet get really interested in rickard the wind blows a gale and the levee la Is in danger again CHAPTER women as well ell as men work anilie on alie levee the second sei ond night light innes finds rickard and gerty together and begins to suspect hir hc sister inlaw in law ifer her brothers and ali k evident efficiency effle tency only serve to era em bitter innes against rickard CHAPTER the river washes away halt half of Cal calexico exico s melcan tw twin in city but calello calexico Cal elco exico still stands chapter A stormy public meet ing la is held in which representatives i of the settlers the overland pai alc and mexico clash A telegram from froin Ickard It that tho the river has broken out again a big row and forces united action by all CHAPTER tho the scene shifts from calexico Cal exico to the construction camp at tho th 1 in the river babeli where forces are constructing Ilar dins gito gate innes comes from ios I 1 os angeles to stay sta with t the he Ilar hardyns dins Rici cards s revel revelation t oil CHAPTER estrada gives innes a now new viewpoint of tier her brother and rick ord ard gerty gerly arranges for her family to tc eat in the mess tent and the two Il ardina understand why CHAPTER nickard visits the home of maldonado a house bouse of mystery CHAPTER gerty hardin pets gets permission from it to 0 direct dirce t ling lang tho the chinese mess mes cook senora maldonado MaI donado betrays her husband through jealousy CHAPTER says woman A she stay ling go rickard sides aides with ling I ang and makes a bitter enemy of gerty hardin bardln finds sonora senora maldonado in s tent CHAPTER gerty hints to innes of disgraceful relations between rickard and the mexican woman innes la Is much disturbed but thinks it la Is be cause she hatos bandal randal si CHAPTER A time of foreit activity and anxiety finx lety will hardina Hard Ilar lna dins nato gate stand gerty tiles tilea to get tier her husband to report t the he scandal candal to marshall ife ho re refutes and nd discovers lie has lost his hl cifes if els love CHAPTER picard clrk ird escorts inner homo home from private cor car they find fand the mexican anian lie in its his tent innes goes on alone furious with alu the maldonado has come to tell rickard of her hus blas binda banda murder CHAPTER innes lis Is frightened by the maldonado Mel donado murderer and runs to rickard A great grat light bursts upon thein both gerty hardin watches them PTER ipton X godfrey the world tenor prior ponies to visit tho the camp he and gerty hardin hin aln are mutually attract it tractor tOd cil gerty begins to see a way out chapter the alardin gate out CHAPT CHAPTER sp strike it the indian tribes trib m on the work CHAPTER godfrey in the moonlight with varying effects ts on oil various people CHAPTER the enal battle with the colorado orado why estrada BC e t the h e finish 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