Show 8 0 gas a imogene vyv vy v lk river is a when the colorado Col color orao geo burst if its banks f r nd d thel merial 0 u t valley sf cal forma 2 S vil 1 s g 6 EDNAH flabb C chir PAI 7 I 1 SYNOPSIS CHAPTER CI I 1 IC richard rickard an enel r ier er of the overland pacific Is called to th the office ot of prel freal lent marshall in tuc tue on arix arts cey casey ie is en an enigma to tt it e otar force he ia wear wears dude clothe clothes but h he had resigned ened a chair of engineer jilt nr in the eat to go on the iced road its k a fireman and hi his promotion had bed been PP pec e ta tabular ular will while 12 vi alting for or marhall marshall itle 1 ard read reads a report on the a ravages of tl e colora colors to deal pite the effort efforts of thorn thomas alardin of tt if a e losert ekx corn pany hardin had been a indent t under andr rickard rikard and had married gerty hatm with fit whom rickard had fancied iiii wa in a to lov a bg if Marshall ir II tell tells nickard 0 overland pacific bar ban rot t to alep P in to nave pave the imperial at 11 rat or and so na P ends hm bm to tie break It mickarl Ickar declines be wit cause he doer doe not want to 10 supplant Bup plant ilse din but Is in won over stop ston the river ilcin the I 1 ay mays marshall Ma LH III rickard journeys t to 0 calculi Cal exico hiees e the desert an 4 learns m much u eh about alardin and I 1 ta is work ork r an not mrm mr ur and mr ira hardin and mind inne innes hardin hardin a half itter disappointed in her ausban I 1 and an incorrigible boquett e mr virdin eta sets her cap fop lier her former forme r ler jo yv ani him tn t dinert rickard the r rom om rany J ices and take takes control it he fende the eng inra loyal to karain and aw hostile sa to i ln in Fil a mexican son on tf 0 he them I 1 it or of the IRI valley I 1 tells lim of t the he beneral liu atlon ion vr attend attends a ineeta nf of tt t directors ll rector and aberta hi hie hardin 1 barada tell rl karl kurl of his afat hiir bork woric s I 1 fall I 1 can t see tt it finished 1 tin I it re are dhus 18 rui rul tt I 1 lili ills opponent coolly I 1 IN e are aking 1 to none I 1 want mr liar ilar till gt men al ti pointed a committee of MIL lit it MP st e that the machinery 1 de di 11 ertI antome lit once und and the dredge rushed rhe norh Hor liing irig force vax illy not kulil they could tie de IDI I 1 t ad i n hol 0 1 ibor Itlo card alreed hilt that they m would find such lit hll 11 1 tit t it mould not ilo do to rely on it the big my system gitein of nev orleans niad sh ut lie had planned to urite there stating the and there aus its a inan in named porter 1 I 1 rank portell Por terl sneered Il anlin 1 I at ill brother rickard oa 01 ph a antly jim furn lAi the men for it t big mines in I onorie tin and sina ion loa iseli alel end bend all the labor ant the 1 att t for our i AN hen it gets red hot theres no one like a it 1 I eon onn tr t r an andt gindlin in boull he too infringing on in the he interns ln In terna dional contract lav lan suggested BUKK sugg sled isted mae iball I 1 nn N the strip la Is on the mexican ald laughed casty u I 1 I 1 id d thought of 0 stat at 1 e ell it hn ahne e them shipped to the t alexica 3 point unit 1 then theil br hialit to the border mr mill v help us the meeting rue etIng had already adjourned adjo umed they v i re standing around the he flat top toll dek corada invited then nil all to lunch with him jilin in the car on the sill std ine ina wet pun ean mild suld that be had bail to get back to ills I 1 os ansee angeles mr babcock was c g ins ing to take tale him film out to grant a e heading in the machine he ile hail hall never been there they had hall breakfasted late ili looked very much the colonel to fl clickard his ills full chest and artly car ar alae anade more military ly by his ills triin trim of I 1 dinkl colored co orel cloth sl 31 ly I 1 speak to oil about your boy mr itar tin caught a slight that wai not inep file led he lie pat the group nt fit the dor tilt without hout civility or ceremony the steady grao a eyes of the big fruit e hopefl 1 akl at tit It Ickard inquiringly he ile mant 4 to stay out another year 1 h ili p sou will let him its not dmn it r ki ft I 1 I 1 all li ill have to like lithe a to 0 o th tilt reading Heit din tills this summer th ri 1 Is i orl irl here I 1 aultin t take her nn fir I 1 hen then too I 1 rn old fash lone 1 1 I 1114 anin in ill offles aly I 1 tol boqi aln r t bo be a p till no tie I 1 id d like to jo ahne lit e diw bour run to rely on oil for a could not boerl mod ean m grave feature features relaxed as I 1 e loi lot I 1 e el I 1 don down n on tho engineer NN ha ho VAR no small man himself and unit SUK alig atef I 1 hat that hit his son u mas a not very well ell N 1 I in atno stenography stenos raphy t R I 1 he lie lea leat tt of it I 1 loit hat hi ill nill make a good good gentle I 1 nun wn t tille liel berther lher 1 nor hl his wt Un their active thought hah uhla rest holud 1 I around alardin and his hirt intend in tend had bad quntion to ask his host bost on clur bl atory A As s they it amo come it 0 o him blin hat that something n unit rt strada rails was jilts ac ae cur cuate cu ate litt it he bail all nil till ills facts I 1 as it ent it aasni F lop nill he lip lacked lurked in 4 illy hf he liln mith ith it ey etim dreamed dron nied out nut of the tit i 1 1 althe iorge of the si nt w tr ax fix thatah out olit ahert the theun latinmer litin mer hurfred ja you mean do you doubt it I 1 ex lined bitici arof tK he the nielan a alyin illy ilk the N eyes Ft nila hok shook ills lil heitel hut but without yc lolon thine thins oil d not laugh nt at t antl n laugh nt it iny t if x m nei nor not fur stir hat that it I any ine hil nr 1 r arno wn 1 41 tl TI fl dexl full n dirk F yes were R broody in aa mem therit 0 o its it purely alte aielt w se that 1 I v 0 hail ball ince since niga I 1 ire wan a child something Soni ethin falls between ond a plan if it I 1 me paid sold it wa a a v veil it would mould be bt something f I 1 ni of oice ce fell to a G cliot of tunefulness tuneful nes arid nd it nothing A I 1 lenk 1 know ow then its it 8 not golani to happen it IR is terribly final t its hai pined often now I 1 watt for chrit vell aben it falls I 1 know no abut it nit ans and nave had that seme sene about river 11 1 bradu turned chiq pen kive the american america gex 11 oatt n I 1 th after father datti distill that tint thit hat it meant WOK nax hut it anie little again I 1 it 1 kept coming corning I 1 had it nil white a ou ale talking just jut now nom I 1 don ilon t peak speak of MIR it sounds thicken chicken blurted hi arted and anil im in in with mith nil all my soul my fa fit ther but iut 1 coulden couldn I 1 do to tt it auy any other war way lou think ivr N ar are going to fill 1 I cant fie see it finished 41 was nias istra I 1 das da mournful answer lie ile turned ag aln to etire re nut out of the mInd window ii IN lii it are he the river men ia in the valle bew demanded tit 1 I 1 m want ant to meet thein to talk to if tham cornel ilea lie an anlian in lian iles north talking to I 1 knows 1110 itt its iti legend 4 perhaps soul of tt it Is ills too na hert lie to tole 1 found 1 boull I ou 11 run ruti across aaril as himl antl Uhe linneer lic neer it up till he ii oil halid he lip sen gea sen it and then there ii mutt matt set him illin of toure illis he be been up lip the aher vo 0 but tell 3 ou tu a m ho ani e a breed ed who mho lives fine nilles miles dnn domit the river froia from hamlan 4 he ile knows ill lit olla gila am th ill ush lu fu mere pure indian the alas tricky arnid nudon landfa her ther uns mas a 0 traill r hlo his bruit ari tit randan ther they sit a priest tie I 1 ile mol women er mere ill till indian ile lies a smart smart and butt I 1 st tr adas japanese re sen serN ant alit came balk into the ur to offer tea freshly iced feed ahat I 1 mili wint tit inart alier nun min nt not tei It Ickard az 1 I A rh c r history atluri s another aon a aught to meet he lie ana ath nath t tir it second lowell I 1 0 el I 1 condition lips ife s written ritten m the best loi I 1 of k h on oil the rl arter er lie ile kno knows A a alta tt if an ani in in do jou on th til inep 1 van uns 1 thul together ll Ill fink a it arii ti ni all inn call just gli that forego lang of 3 ours mr attalla I por I 1 tell aou ou were mere going to trouin that rivert I 1 a pensive e smile followed the flaning step of the until it tarried carried him bim out of 4 Bc nue he it wax the son on of ills fattier he lie mu rout mut t work murk a as 4 hard as if it 1 went meat with hlin him us as if it at tit the other end ell of the loni long road but it ans it not it to be I 1 lit if would never see that haal led CHAPTER VII A garden in a detert ills dwell leaped into sight As hardin turned the corner of the street there wn f hut lint one street running runn the tu twin in kimn 4 blankd lv by the willies of running water ater the ret rest were ditches or of running runn lnE water edged ly by f he I 1 un der the li erli bird cage of if the afert dt ert hotel a o 0 griL eting for the loundro mho e chaira chairs were mere drawn drumn up the chade of the brick wall hall the slackened ed as A alardin ni ired he the plate he lie ailed called ills its home an inner tend tenderness ernes diluted the sneer u that ahls face he lie could see inne 1 4 an as she moved around in ili the lit i tie fenced in strip that surrounded her tier desert tent rap he In tided on calling it a garden in it spite of lili lit raillery gerty a in lit 1 d I I 1 sui sul po pose thought tom torn lie lip had a rud pull len ten vivid picture of her tier acau dog ing 1114 baid ened again 1 inne over a rose row 1 aed out of hia his i allon 1 edn it came to alardin that a manbas man hunode llad 1 0 acl ciral irIt of fellure when he lie ging R ink to ills hf onit end shrinks from tle the nt at bane V t has hai been at forty I 1 lie muse I 1 aa here avei e all hie his ships drifting drift in innes waved a gay guy hand I 1 she a s a goodly crop of barrels 1114 mocked an ant I 1 caressed lit hir r clr garden alc atlon ala wai 47 5 ail I 1 41 j Y 11 f he loved the hardin trait in her a it n lor ji ki alth II ile elored lored th trait in her the th perl tence which will mill rot tn ill daunted an ali occupy pa tion ich with a all amri Y I a fi ll falt 0 ke ile mool I 1 not nunom ledge the he inn blood 1 in h br r I 1 ike that t auncy other mother of her 7 a lr 11 ardin lI through and I 1 abe can t help it it the work mork that way may the always at vi AYR make foals foo of at vest innes lining her eyes froni from a cripi pled roe saw that the black bloc devils were con wiling him again INN III you look at thi this breckl bhe she cried the windstorm the onit ireta had mad made 0 i of i lur labors the li 4 1 1 were mere pink itro IH il utility broken benche from ni aih of 0 perfect fit fl m were ers were mere unfold lne ille the prettiest prett tent lest alo kl I 1 to 11 hulln wae nas the gardener herself li relf mie lie ma wai mai i vivid ild from front eager tell ila alardin adin iw loi lial at her nal ay lie liked lit ir r lunki milt nil af at a uniform with ill it its floN illig black ali ami on k I 1 stather it a I 1 tier 1 belt 11 I 1 i she be goolt it more wore like I 1 erm if to 4 lu 1 t she be hall hiel cat I 1 out in tu on oll sin he hail hall lien I 1 en cherif bieri elt gt sit to too twined i 1 anning kroutil without hut but liun sunburn luru paled th tho nalup 0 of MIMI sp lenold elf i of 0 hers he ili could at niwaye ays tea zi her by likening them to lopaze to toP ills eie run ran birr ocr he the pink and pur pie life line lines A of cord trained unee nine which made little fiatal screens Sic reens for her tint I 1 aree ree of if ill he strings 1 tiny rioted t N er the tho ramada nii naila tl ohp st cond roof root of at thing I 1 lie II 11 their bitaut it tho till bie gratto tart ne eav lh 1114 3 skull the punting pi iutin ellit ll lit ta destilo lust just belond he lie remembered hlf hn ma hamadi deity elty bail hated it lud hid of it M a bitterly when mien alic lit time homo onto from froin nex e lirk that in lit ind hill in ad it I 1 lulled ulli 1 I dou domi n tin I 1 ri it by a V root roof of if pine little ila hoiris ardi alarin gl arin unit ugh 1 ut otrey arty URR as for it vas mum fhy she p ira longer felt that the she t he hit I 1 in lit a it filliam hou I 1 tt th kinf in madaK there inq she t lia should lioi ild lie ito ha hit I 1 urge I 1 that IT ati n beert dut aiters ind 11 lit N hint 4 to gl afi e then ilni nut but vh it it haq it fernnda to hirn him or ail I 0 turid to leie leue jf she did till not bant ant film tn to go so soon rho lie pointed 0 it t a nen nipe afif to him ah L list ha 1 li it from tuon tuc on they illi ali I 1 it a jul int ao tin tit in nl thre alas fokta roe re quite bi bobil oil I 1 abe lie help of stripped ind in ault alinte pa lints he ile foil med air I 1 r around tie tl e tint t lit her tier I 1 toll falling brorn his alin arim mood if va lot thinking of her floming except aa an a p piral lp I 1 taft he cert storm had ina ie le a ila K i f I 1 11 Is gardt it it I 1 atch of his ills life it 11 and 1 innee had bad bacri to induke it 11 gar dan out of a desart the disert had flauto d thein them it anns not 11 fault something hall happened hap pend pi tithing quimp biond his hi pomer luik LULL in turning him hirn jimr why she ln wu mas claing nj its aa with a to it van m all mhd natural m tint it of a woman moman to mille things inthy around her tier hut but he lie lid hie fits auth ills hi chance 1114 1 4 domestic doine tic life tou too lie hould should f ne neier er hae tin e garrit 1 I a dainty little woman mouton like gerty into the dem he ile had neer her ter for leading leming him een eien lut lat lu la t titue nhen he thought it vim am for golf go the mord I 1 arned his wound 1 home ills or girt birti a somehow hoi tio uth choly he alinaya knew it would mould urn out all right life would run when left the de but shingi were mere ketan morse his fits puckered oer soine recoil c gloni tet yet hf he to loved ed gt grythe Gry ityl fhe lie coundit t picture life without her he ile decided that it was because there had never ati anone ail one fise else most fello had lind sweethearts lefore they married illar he lie tind had not nor a 4 when ihen he be left him though gl gil knows it boull out I 1 have haie bean lany casy enough ills i mouth fell felt into sardo ife line 4 ilio o half breed nomen 0 no o one even eden when a had bad hunk ner mer him oh he lie knew wl mj at their friends frie nils emde a title of anh a of f gerta n s it flights lie knew knem I 1 hut but that ha I 1 been spared him that vulgar gri 1 spectacle pec tuIe of modern life when u lien two a gioi pt ol 01 ie le who AN ito have hai e hem bet n lovers im ers drag the carens of their love over oner the grimy floor of a curious court he up shuddered gert berti loved him I 1 be ise hr fir had she site come corne I 1 ack to liln biri U hy by had ila she not kepi kept tier chnat hf ho re fusel to abandon his tits desert i t and turn his tits abilities into a more t dedic II 11 could t we her fice as clie ale stared flut hing up into hl hla that nipping cold day ii wl I 1 en in lie had run into heron her on he lie dewein bored her coquetry when she ed ell that ther linit plenty of cocin in hir ills eifel bhe she roke ae of seeing his picture 4 in the papers he ile hid ili grown to be a gnat art at ninn man I 1 that II meeting the meek following had feen teen the brightest bright A of his ute life he lie wa mam sure thin lint gerty lovid him the wrangle were mere only thir dlf dif frent forent way may 4 of looking at ahn of course u they loved ach other but getty coal coul in Is t pioneer life she lul fill loved him jilin or she site would mould not so easily enily en ily lave ime been persuaded to try it over oer again 1 she yearned |