| Show earners ear News iii iines r j river vi Z when the Coto colorado 0 bunt burst if its bank banks and flooded the Imper zm peri fri cl I 1 t valley sf california 1 so so Is a J j MO wo j EDNAH AIKEN 6 ILL a I 1 1 C cur SYNOPSIS 1 IK ITC I TC K C rickard an enga eng neer of ill h pacific Is J called to the oatice of president marshall in ti taic coon on an casey to 1 an enigma 1 to th the fon force he wear wears dude clothes cloth 3 t t ir he had j a chair of lite in n trie the fait fast to co go on an the road as a a firemen en an I 1 his HI promotion had been c whir white waiting for marshall Mr hIl rork to ic k ard read reads report on the ravages rava of the th ol orado despite the loff lorts ol 01 thorn thomas hardin of the desert reclamation cam piny this had ben been a bulent tu lent under richard rickard and hed had gerty holmes holm with whom ItIc kerd had fancied be b was w in Q lov love II 11 marhell tells rickard the overland pacific h has rot to tcp in t to T eve save th the 0 im imperial tortal vl valley rt 1 I all nd sends him to the b ark rea R ek rd d cause ir lie dof doen not want to supplant eup pant tant hr itar din but to won over stop the river 1 damn th the expense apen says ey marshall ill hara journey journeys to calegiro Calex Cal exico iro sees the th Irrl rated desert ana an learn learns much about alardin liar r and his hi work 9 a at a 9 in in I 1 n wei mr ur anil and mr mrs hardin and annen inn hardin alardin a half halt sitter tit 11 her husband and an coquette 9 rs hardin 11 sets her cap for her former ter r ani vIVa PIrn him to denro dinner r t V ackard visits the corn cam pans pan a of face and take takes control if ire and finds the loyal to and how ho tile tit to him im a mexican bie mican son on of the father her of the th imperi imperial valley tulle tells him of ali the general situation altu atlon vr attend attends a meeting of f the director directors and asserts big hl authority hardin baires astr aa A da tells rickert of his hi foreboding et at ats ht work will full fall 1 I can cant t aee see it finished 1 VU VIT inne to discovered tn in ber karieen she ariee tri to cheer up tip flardia eitard ll ardia I 1 a who h Is I 1 furlou furious against TW Icard i mafort viii iuni ly IV lune luncheon neon at 01 t th he liaf dUn throw light on an them tholia CHAPTER IX the rival rivals frum uie the window of the adobe office buil building dinc of the company lomp nn eav saw rickard jump from file rear platform of the trai it slimed lowed into the sta tion he ile noticed that the new manager carried no bag beg 1111 bonder onder what lies lie decided to do about the lite he adgate he ile ddn t waite masts much time out there waa was Adge ting in hie his seat his hi eye eyes on the approaching figure rickard passed through the room nodding to his office force the door of the e inner office shut behind him elardin stared nt at the bin blank a k surface lift lie knoel tn in hh his amel chair did the fellow fellom think a bis x thing like that out I 1 hang on m while lille he lie unpaged his trunks ond and til his bureau draw dra ers eret lie ile picked up ft it pencil jabbing at he the paper of lit fits report ile covered 1 the ahlet bill alli it figures agures gures three hund hundred nit hundred six hundred feet hoe fault flint the had widened doubling ita its width edth trebling its problem whose but marshall Alar who had hold sent don donn one of his ills olice clercx to nee what gilardin was uan doing A otilda t nor any man in lih ills know that he the way woul distan hulsh himself would mould ho be by discrediting ill hardin by throwing bouquet bouquets to slur mar shrill braning prati lne lili ills plan they all to io nt lot it the same sickening way aal ayl I 1 office clerk ball bahl I 1 sure maitland Matt landl had ad used against the completion u of the iata suld sold it would coat cost more in timo time and lioney than 1 I hank to htattland Malt land it did growled alardin crawling agures 0 oer pr the dagil a th time murtland land finish 4 1 alth that toy lain dain of his hi the arlier had ulden eLthe break from three hundred to elx six hundred hundri feet for tint that they throw anuil at me ob it snaked me sick alardin mine jils broken pencil out of the aindow entered reentered re the roni the aluc tion leaped from alardin tito li are you going on with Itic kapi looked curiously at the face of the man 11 h are you going on with 1 it he lie hail had supplanted the crowl his fits mind that perlina g hid ill taken to drinking drIn LIn it made ha ills li I 1 r curt 1 I 1 dont loll 1011 t knew h not W V ift tr I 1 have no ri n port I rt to in n ike sir fla din until I 1 see 1116 tate ftp and au ou r it to the without ith 0 ut colne going down domn to hie the hoad hardin did not try to conceal ills disgust 1 I did not go to to the crowing dian idida didn t co go 1 I 1 hardin s mouth waa wai then he lie rudely mil milverd veld ltd hie his chair the door ard been to the crossing cro asing then where here in battles did he lie go a lie halted ciaci aan nn m who ho wat as pushing him hirn are you going to the Crot xing to to tn orrow Ilard lii knew he lie shoud should be too proud to betray hi his but the words run ran away with mith him not tomorrow mr ricaard ju just at told me he lie might hot not be able to get oft off until next week ilar dins anger sputtered axt next arele why does he be ruin sol so why doe loeft rit he KO go lexi acx a atar the colo rido 9 so gentle it ltd it wait aft for him iro I 1 ni nure next week I 1 it x a put up jot job that s what i lint it la Is oil I 1 can eie st e through a anew ft nee ulala a knothole biff big aa your head he lie dohnt bont to 0 o fenish the ie ile wants auts to piu im off until ite its too late to hot 10 im tin with mith it I 1 knon him lied rink the whole thin thing tind nil all the money the 0 11 has hav cl chucked lacked into it jut to tart start with mith a clean elate slate to got the glory of 0 atop stop aa ta t river it turn turns ray my stomach atoll ach its tea a plot the lower lip shot pilot out 1 SIa cLane attention waa deferential he lie had liked alardin all the fel belloma loiss did but he waa mas jumping off wrong this time lied ile of brought it ull on himself he ile said something about a levee for the he lie a e cot got to investigate tint before be he goes to the front A leipe arll moullet nt that jar you hardin addred ed the rather in the tran transparent parent adjei 1 he lie think were mere going 1 to have another hood flood this till season thinks ita its going to reach the he hotel and wet iset hia his clothes clot heiT anke ta ke the starch out of his ills 1 chirtel he ile flung out of 0 his chair lulng the papers back into t the ae draft ir he ile stamped etani ped out of the office mud nind clear through to thim crisis 11 tile had sent flon a dandy annd a bookman who wanted to build a ace pipe oh ob heill they 11 conie come crawling craw lInK after me to hep help them after himsel under artner riv er i ul come batlin calling rat lin 1 to me as they did after maitland failed please mr ant aou ou coine block ant anil finish our gintell cute ill see them dead first no I 1 it be fool enough to to do it I 1 cant help myself I 1 ni a It ardla I 1 hae fin e to finish what I 1 i e b begue 11 it warnot was not because till ihli was ft 11 pet enterprise the great work ork of bla his life that he must eagerly eat humble apte pt take the buffets the falls and co come me chining back when they whistled hiet led to him lie loll 1011 himself it was because of hi hn debt to the galley alley i to the ranchers the colonists ere about desperate 11 ho could blame them Thelast the last eurs eur a flood bad with mith their crop crops thia this year had beena horror the district they called no a 0 was as a screaming irony ot ruin ran the it dt debauch debich of the river arver had made brent great the ranche w had scoured deep gorges had undermined nol neill the cabalu on which the water muter supply for no 0 the suit suits were piling up the D it R d darn a r n age suits and they bold hold up his cate gate while able 1 gets the curbes of 0 the at 1 lei ley and mr rickard thinks hell build a leipel lei I 1 jle lie flung hlen alf on the couch in the tent gerty was mas laying a careful ca refill cloth for NU taul per A brae P dett smile was mas arrant ail her jilg the noon storm hid fold passed rhe she hummed a gar little tune it if there was anything alardin cited it was humming 1 I ou 11 haie baur dude tn in dinner all right her tier hus husband jaina announced he a in tom town n les ies I 1 know rejoined his hi epou spouse ae 1 I had a lette from him yesterday df toia tom sat up glaring he ile wrote to tou from imperial Imper lall ill 1114 4 misplaced the accent she toms scowl it was na the old tory oer again whenever beneve he neve thoe to tilo mea men came torether together the old boing of jealousy Jea louty be railed it was un of 0 course arse irry fry to lin linnemon remon cure re I 1 hire ike chott but it made life life and l nd been getting a little stale insely like a book of fea pen alt entrance into the tory story pie gae a n new interest n new she title dammed nn an air from froin a nev opera that hail set the horld waltzing thoughts did lid not touch her nt at the hini honi lie ile m was as nt at the head gite fits rate gate hat the deuce had Ric richaird kaird pone gone to imperial for if he am t the lie darn damnedest edest avel ni lizi anil and the aill hune flung up UPI I 1 I 1 tor aror god gott a sake stop that buzzing I 1 I 1 the happy little nole nol w moll quenched quen clied entering at nt that nion tit hearil heard thu the rough oriler ste looked angly nt at lier tier elster bast r in law suppers on the table cried gerty the fixed determined anille still till on her tips lips CHAPTER ATER X ll 11 A desert dinner innes alardin mas completing her simple pimple toilet not even to please gerty would he she dregs tir tip for the dinner it would have ben been easy for her ler sister tn in law to postpone pone it lion could ehe she expect tom to go through with nith iti ill she could rit understand gt mirtyl fly I 1 an hour iago distinctly the hir and alpin of egi beating she iad find run over to the neighboring tnt tent the of lite cake coke tin R had bull ud danly all neki tte me wont oarth rl voigt 1 hat hill t ino ti lean to the tittle little kitchen fahed I 1 1 I im in 1 lilar ing down aiesi iesi esl grimaced grim iced the 11 mouth to its it reflection in lie the mirror low miny times that week eek had ehe she been een rei rel ul aed ted by a locked door it sud mud den curtain ol 01 u hence oi 01 a I 1 run am awaa 23 for or a while im I 1 trying to catill a e nap F ri iw to we see why gerty ind hail wanted to hold the reins that u week eek I 1 she dlin t need to pierce thoe era ern malls all to know tint thit there had been feverish beverl kh act litty for tal tt ls dinner limer ti A new sown gown would mould rapear tonight made M etwert andy fly an n exquisite neal meal an I 1 no ore mut comment on its eleb loti twice tice tom and he the t had been ali abed rd to toke take their lunch nt at iho the hotel Il because of a hea headache dathel A headache I 1 loins wife ife could not toot eden bhoj openly 1 11 a had bad alway the air of roister neier iethel ie tiel tom toot or herolf blie must lue bap arda of stuff laid away kept for emer einer she he can cant t help it its it a tier her dl pod gitil she can cant t help leing eing I 1 secretive t I 1 look ook at your our face annen liar dint ahat hat it to her the of a ftomyn oman whom an accident of lift hit had sm yvett ept ill tilon on the beich beale tier 17 gerty haq not her kind not the sort b fe aie w uld alek out for a friend ali he L aas an oriental one of the lip harem tin reir women eliose buangsi 1 it 14 I 1 in fit life t to 0 i ne no man moin to keep hl ills ionic ot t hie his crin forts reads rt ailt keep heel him con coll laced nonar non nr that it la Is the dire 11 of hn hl life to support her ber herself ills 11 II satisfied fled staying stai ln by hini him for self interest not fr ir jos C ah that mils her impeachment not ot lov joy soberly she eon ert it her pa plinn tin brna alere with a it white waist of cotton ducking A ri 1 I 1 bilt bit nn sin I 1 I 1 alin son tie she he ad added led self conw loi isly abere is ill bloodstone pin pill kladni mie pent spent nn an hour at t least matching that particular leather belt but he lie wm mai a man in battle the hend he adgate gote held up it was too bad had silent Bode feldt oo ter orting nil all of them mud niad akau because of the deadlock nt tit the reading all up in arma nt at last kalist qt Mars lull be ile came of thi cruel cut to their beio 1 alardin Hanl lii her iler ejea glowed like mellow nellow lanil si as ehe slip recalled their fervid par only one nun win who ho can sn anve e the valle valley and taw t s lorn lont alardin sma ter had bald said ant hut but they nil all by be lieveld it the loyalty of the force made her ligh ashamed amed of her tier soft woman feura fears for there were liere times when lihen the she qu quat lonel hr her brother s ability he ile had a large loose looe way uny of handling things he lie wa a too optimistic but tho those men spose those engineer engineers must know I 1 it t rim YI probably the mans way 0 of sweeping ahead ad ignoring detail tito verdict of those field tried men told her that he the other the careful plan finx wa aa was as the office luckard an as a dinne neighbor she had found inheres ing but tor for great un dt 11 r man who mho would let a garty holnes jilt him ruin hta his life for him I 1 the ilione story sprung at last cecar from the dropped innuendo she adjusted doted a barrette in her smoothly brushed hair ehe she walked or mer to the neighboring tent frowned at the white duck abbia i I 1 r 0 gerty frowned at the white duck I 1 you on might at least tune lie von morn your bluel blue I 1 I 1 i I 1 iiri re elegant dinou for lie the two ino of u isn t that point thing new gerty said carelessly care barele lesly ely that she had hail had it tor for A ions long time I 1 or sl 8 e hail had had hail the a ft long timet it wit mn nt at nt sary to explain to her tier hu hancq i tl aster ter hut that it hild hail been made up that weik she site hoped that phe I 1 look I 1 fus fusi etil i 1 I up lip air rickard think rho uns attaching any tiny Import anci tj the cample blin pl little tor it haq nothing to him of olt otine A man 0 of his standing hora hom lie the brent great lod marshall rallied ran lied 80 high li lili probably dined out tR everal ench each week meek ith fill v hite acci pfd maids and candelabra cande I 1 if I 1 tom had only ninde made lite most 0 of his opi 1 b h it u gamble life to a ionian I 1 bhe she made a trip into her bedroom and tool took at rea st irey in ekr mirror the ingerle frock would mould look comple to 0 o a ruin rian ubo ner never suspect it of hand mule ity her ifer alasi declared the hand whipped llona camul and 1 aln I 1 a it lone long timo ngo a ne air rick ani ant find 01 ol her that rile phe alawiya should ear blua bill because of hr h r evel |
