Show WA B A R amur 0 y DUNN AUTHOR y AMANTO A MAN TO HIS MATE M AT E RIMROCK TRAI TRAIL L ap tf DODD MEAD and nd CO BF THE DIVINER SYNOPSIS idly hermanos creek in california caleb warner civil engineer and a new englander js Is witness of the end of a cocotte pulled down by two wolfhounds wolf hounds urged on by a uirl rider admiring the hounds he introduces himself lilina elfi and learns her name to Is clinton with vestern hospitality the she invites him to the ranch to meet her father at the clinton lionie home warner learns hla his new friends name Is hetty betty llo lie Is ie welcomed by her fattier father southern civil war veteran and owner of IIer Ilar manos valley ile he tells them something of tits hit 11 aar in bivions and ills his feeling that 11 he Is deat destined tiled to be a water wate r dearer bearer in the town of golden warner shares an apartment with ills his old columbia collego chum ted baxter carefree and n id somewhat Bonn nome what dis dl si 0 youth only child of his widowed mother who controls the family fortune at a club luncheon baxter introduces calob to wllbur cox leading business man and president of the water company which supplies the needs of golden lie gives cox co tin an inkling of his ambitions ambition and ana cox impressed invites him to dinner that night inuring during dinner cox asks caleb to call at ills his office next day he does so and cox arranges a meeting between caleb arid and the water companas comp anys chief engineer baxter tells caleb lie ho la Is in difficulties with wh a girl mary morgan coxs stenographer who insists he must marry her with hunckley caleb looks over the water com coin banys source of supply the crystal springs in Iler manos valley CHAPTER V continued 7 0 surely had to still havo bave to if you ever build a darn dam anywhere along the line of the great fault dont forget that every major quake runs along the same line out of the sea hea ot at a tangent norwest to soleast sou east cast down the original crack the big temblor in 1812 that wrecked tile alie missions and the quake in 1000 1900 that wrecked golden and santa rosa hosa moved over fit an identical trail A aej nd that trail went clean through my big bit darn down there the long lake ila and once beet bace ful valley toll tol 1 b a stage road winding throng i tile way to the sea durms t atilt and a lia hamlet nilet with n famous roadhouse tit at the crystal springs for which the valley milley was named all these had been razed to prepare the bottom of the great reservoir fences taken up trees eliminated the place devastated as the big darn dam rose in the great notch that formed the main outlet to tile the valley caleb turned the talk to tile lie question of goldens boldens Gol dens impending shortage mr air cox lie said aid that there was no more watershed anilli a all able on the peninsula that Is true we own a certain number of artesian wells around till the lower end of th ohp bay but they are only a drop in tile alie bucket tile thy outlook Is not very encouraging how about across tile the bay caleb put the query with a n degree of nervousness lie ile feared that wits was about to uncover his own precious theory find and demolish demoll sh it the engineers eyes twinkled they say that water like gold Is 14 where you find it an and oil hi din dings gs keepings beell there la Is water over there that ethically ell leally belongs Ie longs to oakville Oa kville our company naturally considers golden more important 1 I ut at it Is difficult of development moans large ex expends ture we W have n hard jot job to get water rates raisel raised sufficiently to warrant it filtration Is tile the big trouble the work would tie he clabo ate and expensive we vc cant see our way clean clear caleb kept his face clear of everything thing but earnest attention lint lie wag breathing inore easily ills ilia theory was still virgin pled to go into all the present nitration filtration system find tile layout of tile conduits that supplied the hydrants of golden calebs interest i lu in crystal ink s divid been satisfied but lie he followed tile lie technical talk with intelligent comment conini ent find and left tile the engineer at last on oil terms that nere ere more titan merely friendly lie ile reached golden after the wei opre e closed for tile the lay day hut bill early the next morning in he fie obtained geodetic section maps map of the quadrangles covering ballente Cal lente valley and the Ga gauillan range lie he put in III molt of tile the clay studying these and inking little drawings to scale in vertical plane it wits was all in fit support of it mere theory but it was ills habit to be painstaking even in preliminaries and he a r ills his sketches with a good deal of satisfaction if the theory cannad out it meant not merely money and fame if lie he handled his fits discovery properly but it would make him coleb an actual factor in plo pioneering in city building lie ile to what betty clinton coart sad nt it kl ili aldo ir I 1 what I 1 prefer IX if I 1 was waa it 11 nian man to rente something to be a water awater bearer to the thirsty earth or to thirsty people baxter coming in broke through tits his reverie you look like a latter day prophet prop liet seeing visions said baxter what 13 the big idea just a hunch so far ted im going across the bay tomorrow prospecting pec ting the other looked at him oddly expect to uncover a gold goila mine at kl ht N aldo ado beware of the lie sirens who lie behind the lie roell rocks I 1 As I 1 remember tier lier that lay day at tile the dog show tile clinton girl was avas a lo looker I 1 howard le warel tin im riot not looking for that kind of a mine ted and I 1 thought of going to LI el nido tills this ti 11 you seem fairly happy yourself 7 am ive heard from my parties in the rind land deal lie he out in n a rew few weeks probably some mime time next month loath n thereby really greatly relieving the general situation NOW its up to me to attend to the little formality of I 1 lading finding the lie land to please them I 1 wonder won cpr if theres am tiling across lie alie the long lake had once been a peaceful valley bayl I 1 must look up tily my notes want me file to come along with you cal I 1 wonder if the IN el nido kniley Is tor for salet sale I 1 lie ile glanced mockingly at caleb and laughed old chief wooden face you ou dont worry I 1 vont butt in to poach on your our preserves give my regards to miss clinton abe lie may vaguely remember me I 1 was waa introduced to tier lier at the show she w hut but remember my warning stoics like you when they fall tall fall hard I 1 CHAPTER VI the diviner caleb caught tin an early ferry for the six nille mile water trip across tile the bay from golden to barville OaR vIlle at oakdale 00 ville lie took a local train tiala that paralleled tile lie of the lower bay for a time before drig east through coyote ca the natural gateway through lie hills for tile the overland trains As lie had done on r reek creek caleb noted lood flood signi then lie fie gave himself up to studying ills his shet sketches olics covering tile legion lie was going to prospect hect going over ocr thern them while the train tugged up the conyon until lie he knew thern by heart he fie left tile train tit at the lie same station lie lind biad u fd on oil ili his previous pi e ions trip buying bio ing some fruit to peep berve ns as luncheon i before lie crossed tile lie bridge an and started up ller manos lie find brought along rod find creel more ns as a anask to ills real intentions than from any idea of fishing the scanty low flow ran in a deep channel gouged out by ile he examined the sides and tit f found arld tile bliem it all of gravel gr iel A wagon roni roar that hall had followed the creek up front tile the railroad turned off to wind behind a low ridge it wits deep rutted and caleb traced it ile he found that it ended at a grovel pit dug into the side of the ridge used probably for road making purposes the pit hud had been bitten out in the shape of a horseshoe and standing where one of the calks balks would come lie fie saw n dilapidated blied from arora the root roof of which smoke was rising through n rusty stove pipe A man inan leaning against the open door surged ged him curiously caleb nodded to litin liln RS as he walked over OUT to the shade shack crunching through the gimpl tho the man was avus finnk and tall stooped of shoulder and constricted of chest A hooked nose stuck out boldly from the peaked and sunken faco face between eyes ees that glittered strangely long lair fell below hla his shirt collar As he rested lignIn st the door jamb a it fit of coughing at attacked tricked him and h he e shook with it like a reed in ili the lie wl wind n d lie lifs so helpless in ili tin tho grip of I 1 the I 1 ie attack that caleb hurried to support 0 rt him thinking him about to fall lut but tile violent dolent efforts rented find and tile the mail rallied smiling wanly annl with a grimy chief set to ti ills his lips caleb caught sight of telltale flecks of bright red blood quickly folded into tile the rag the cough was from the lungs tile the man inan tubercular IS S nil all right stranger said the man ive bin a sight worse im gettin gettan it bilked baked out tt of me here lungs but li eie healan ris liln are ye e defter better work up to the canyon inon yb rider no use time bastin yore time down here roily folly the rond road below the pit nril nn then trail the lie critic its tough sites chial clio klu what little alicy Is of it Al mostly gravel underneath undeine ath to judge fly bv the pit caleb answered thanks for the up till li have fiven a cagar the man took it wolfishly find and bit off the end eho caleb gave gae him a match 1 I thought that perhaps you sou owned the lie acl pit me ale I 1 dont own bothin not liln capt this ills cough find and ini im to get s bet of that mines n charity jot job I 1 itra ta goof good gravel nit an the lie hill falces it handy hand to git at I 1 cant work fit at my iny trade no longer it tah takes es it out of me file you see bee caleb see the glitter in the mans eyes ees was not so much that of fever us as of the spirit tie be decided 1 lie le fancied blin it little demented by way of being it crank or a fa fanatic natle im glad the lands hinds worth some tiling thing 11 lie it t iok I 1 ok like it tile the man shot over oer a quick burning look to them ns as looks only on the surface lie said what do you ou mean the man mail tell led the way into the shack front tile the two by fours that supported the corrugated tron iron root roof hung some gome switches of freshly cut willow and hazel some were old and dried and till all were forked know what those ire are asked the he man Th aherns erns rods im a diviner A water rinder finder my trade its ita tile the power within me vint that goes out an leaves me weak too weak to work nt at it each jot job means another nail in ili the lid ild of my coffin debbe youre jouie one of thern them that langli at it lie he demanded fiercely but theres man in the upper tipper valley illey as has blessed bless cd me file when I 1 showed em ell where to bore the tiling thing seemed uncanny yet somehow it fitted in the hunch stirred in ills brain to caleb under the spell of tits bla vision it seemed predestined re that lint vie ie thip lie anter nearer boarer should tile inee ils water findeis to confirm ills his lie a living sign signpost poAt that lie was on the lie track lie ile knew that within the year the he french academy of sell sciences ances had biad accepted the demonstration of a number of controlled cases ases where the water divining rod h had d proved beyond it n doubt that certain dersons re rions were gifted with the power to discover springs and reservoirs scientists did riot not attempt to explain the mystery but accepted the alie pi eno menon and were making it the alie subject of expert research to discover the lie natural causes 1 I lune know knova ft many cases back in the lie where I 1 corne come from caleb said where water his has been foun 1 by b the use of tile lie rod od ll 11 tile was wai instantly mollified ali ah lie he said bald its nil all true I 1 aint quite dumall debbe its a gift tile lie power like a ined mediums lains super natural tile the spirits tall talk to tt me about it sometimes ill id lilo like to show ye e but im too weak but you ou can take my m word for it me ine david dald evans avails hie welsh witter water flealer discovered a store score of wells north of coyote crick thant theres water ill all under acre under tills this gravel apparently this david evans Is to play an important part in the story what does docs he do TO UK CONTINUED |