| Show i river lit i i when the colorado burst if its banks and ft a flooded the imperial 0 valley sf V california M Is a Is EDNAH alken AIKEN 0 not a SYNOPSIS 1 1 ac K C an in nat 1 ineer of the overland to c a ballel lie I 1 to the offles of t trl resident dont marshall in tuc son on art aria car casoly la Is an enigma to the office forr force he ta war wears dud dude clothe clothes but IT he had 11 a chair of engineering 1 in fit the fait to go on an the roa I 1 as a a ilseman an I 1 his hi promotion had been macular whir while visiting for marshall nick west lard rd reads a report on the ravaben of ahlo th colorado desoito the he effort efforts of thorn thomas kardin hardin of the com rany this hardin had bern been a student su under nor I 1 and it had marriel arty holm moline ith whom had tat clad he in love 1 liaa att ir ll marthall aplis Itic kara the th Ov overland rland pacific 1 in ties rot prot to step in to aava save the imperial valley a an n I 1 end him to I 1 he break rickard belines dpi de linn lines be cause he h dos do s not want to a implant liar i din t in but Is I 1 won over rt atop p the river ivr damn the expellee a ay y marchall marshall III rickard journeys loi irney la to calixtro Calex tco tro ie the 11 domert and anif learns much about hardin an I 1 ito II 11 w rk 1 ane rr mr r ant an 1 mr mrs harilyn and binnom inn hardin hardio hardin a helt half sister disappointed in her husband and nn tin coquette mr are liar hn sets et her cop cap for he her T former abot lover n and n ts ti v dannor lva p r aviv alm ickar ickard d the ro rem r fh a ny n offic ebion and it hakea lie f 4 the e 0 ni Kino orto loyal to hardin and hns ho tile to him Fa Ft rala a malean ron pon rot 0 the tile kathr father of the imperial Im pertal N valley alley tella tells alm ot the mentral 1 situation Itu atlon cl 1 apton vr attends attend a IL of the director direr tor and tio his hi authority fla liardon rilin 1 lella tells ckarl of pf his hi that him work wl WI I 1 fall 1 I can t see x tt it I 1 VII hii entas li is arta in hr hor av aden she tries to chew aup hardin Hurd lri wh who 0 in I 1 f arlous against rickard v villa vill A frIlly et ot the t he a alu din which throws light on an them their IX aram iti enover tha tile fur karol is 1 planning a lve loves to protect calexico Cal exico an ant 1 put puts him down as 1 arty tt inko her lord jealous 11 r X the harden hardin linnar dinner to dial dl iloe loses further the family char 1 hardin in 1 ariy suar ant suler 1 anna ries la is hardly polite polito arty garty plana plants A progressive rl ie is in rickard a honor lionor nickard pone gone bl told his family the building a levee between the tornal 1 vote manos oil off lile his head there hot any dan dangere Inne gerl pr anxiety made thi deep blue eyer took black innes 1 looked up tip for tom it answer HI III face was ugly with pant ion danger I 1 ita its a nult a I 1 lie ig how show of activity here because te buffa loed he lie doumitt t know how bow to tackle the he job out there it had lind begun to look lint that way to ilore than one it alvas wn balki d ner over I 1 t coulter Coul tera e store t in the unter office e f the tile 1 R II 11 company tile ong angi 6 arn among the chair dittri who idled filled in front of the ih it ert hotel tho man does not know how bow to ta tamo tame me his hi jot hobt I 1 I 1 A to iea et and the gate lidid eipl up I 1 whitt lr lection to thy the towns would he ile hint hat toy tor leire it the river should eburn on ono of its 1 spectacular A leee and the tile woke int ke itself not guarded lie lil w thi itil of pit n one ot of ark N v ane given a a art ort time to bletl bani 11 vilf out nut A boo kintin un a theorist IM As well put menthie lo itt a few miles mile from on and leite leave th jhb jall doors thi 4 was as costera oo stera sibe gibe all aw saw the colorado ns its a in lit nt at toree large and a little heap of aland tacked up to scare tt it antl ite it in ft A artam V r found it to ineat alth ath diplomacy the tile which inevitably taine lier tier ny As alardin a alfo ife bhe she is wan as it it to en joy the unit ersal ct th the new net main nas acquiring 11 arta lr rt ta light too light slight for as i a sweet charity her iler wn ain position thota alio rt ns van ax he di till I 1 not yet know her dap dtp leon leoti apparently unaware 0 of the talk the gri Later pirt tri of his uni time line the bitite he lle rould no one el w to u do it no one ant unless tt it nero 1 strode who ulm was its his steel ralla thiron tl iron to the front an vae there than s ore moving tin ter his con bitant I 1 nailing the patr i pay mas vas results he lie should lie ile nt at the ll now he lie liitt filling till ln himself but ho he waa was that the instant ho he turned hie lilt hack back the ork on the tha icy levee li mop and all ail the rt afons excellent I 1 some nc would be cooked up lip to arant tle me annl avat et of tle tile hands clif clife us n he might at the ho situation it wis mis to be guerrilla carfare kot wot a fight in tho the open lie krev hofto m let that but tint thit lia baa zing e the lie polite silence of the tile office when lie entered 1 ell be doing my pretty soon cr or my name that a flat gat 1110 lie was mas fretting fret to be at work to start the tile of the 0 P I 1 its last ast hia his pro bicus lie isnow that that like well drilled tia mas uns rand for his hi cill ill the call lagged not alint he h did not neui roen men hut but there ints no plate ready for them the camp comp that us ft us another n h b there u na no camp I 1 it was wits not equipped tor for Is 1 entla tion of men the ot the tile projectors of thin this desert had never st emeil 0 oto o criminal aa as when lie tel hall ved tb ut 1 al tho 1 agoo take att ready dr yo J tools jour J our you b de da that was wa he the train trig of jhb alcid executive of men like marshall and ran t to I 1 be left to in Ihl chicke nl to foresee emer ceiclee ce aclee bot to be taken by them no un w wire tre the of 0 Itar dins fi down fall abts hie his hod habit habits how ilow could lie ile he a rood mho ito hail hall never drilled rio it ler there wai wits the 1 vit at the intake Ilar dint grote witto folly duldt ned from froin one hundred feet tn to ten flie he cut tyer alver do alth neither equipment nor camp till quate tu to il 0 through tinh a work lork of tul hilf tile lie original magnitude cutting aminy moreover una unx the island disaster leland island it lind received apt ly fly file he lagi it its bava unter the Col coltran trad the la IA floods had anid win it t am though it vure a liar of cuir tU ir a no foik rok at houd no nil rikk rok on ton tile lie vily W no rock Dr dertI could tf to a collur suits KM ard knew where he would set get ida him rok already he I 1 nd nil d tile entire output of 0 the amm t and I 1 ho ile lind ordered chum to I 1 0 Ins installing Install fd at the quarry bak of old that pit would he ile his first crutch an ail I 1 the gravel bed that atie aoi n fandl att A ha ho pitted the itzee ast of the towns lie uns planning film hi campaign cn por ter iian iorli it tig for nun lie ile had at halt free port atlon the 0 11 ho he knew mild I 1 ak him jilin he lie was wn going to t I 1 brow n it it ei rl ur track fruin from the I 1 head fend lilt loti eldrix nt lit tit atie and bravi pit on to the tile rouil road nt lit idima double track not most of the tile way biding every in 1 leg hock ik anut be lie rul nii lud hd the tile train must be lw iiii pushed died tl lie itched to heelis it to hlin him that like he might fat fall though its it no pink ten it ht told tom hilo elf I 1 it 14 no ito at in son lie he that tit alin situation sas it 0 arite one hut but till hl talk ulila mi 11 brandon iao ho lin kill N lila his iver liver its due dos it gna 1 li I dinn din made lie ho hinr a eventful nent ful one mutt unit too tot lirt ivil CN hat hii brown grown tier ise hr lit ti 0 hud rd tai 1 a e to tell of the tricky lie me half breed iid I id d r maldonado had confirmed their por tent tents confirmed their por they sal ant t etli r under und lit 11 4 r that ft nf the conn cotin tr tra and anil cornel the 11 in ilan ito had d I 1 t it party aatos acio the dytrt choin lin lilt nat sit t te cro carolne ang deicy lot I 1 ly hall he lie lin fill I 1 llin him river krew grew into a rt boking personality if 1 could pee ee it a dragon of yellow elloui waters liters v dragging 11 its it t lon fluma h lenith acro i the rt manda tit belv inz inn lilt n by its inertness Inert neKi thu tho explorer by it e wild snood to ale sul dely deity de ly with ith its lid fellow tle tile hn iten lin lont toot unit lontine lon tinn to their att dawm loom ana wn thI thinking of the anif brad Mol donad t a 4 lie he inix ln acted tle the new str etli of luce att itada P n the towns hi hall bearil from otherl ins lits ald imrica Itri ot of tin lilt river oc or this de ceic deac ac jdant of or trapper and spina mid and had thought it widle tit ti ride tit the twenty from doun the tile river to t anik alth fill him hint the man 4 R ni alti chiq narrow filtz lt of P 1 till 1 I 1 i thin and facile tit dep ep of cm eni illy fa illing from tin thin in had half ripened hitt altor lb 11 of tin the fol followed lovied aay tile abe wall v alich it I 1 ell nivIe tely surrounded tho tile leill 84 ll nil ill lo 10 ah h ill the C fici tl w tho the atmo abere of 0 sui leton hick ird hall the tile wife life it fri frightened likened lit ened t h didiw edw of a un woman hall een teen t her tier flinch nhan the brute colled for her he lie had cornel cornet about the ile n 4 bering hf ring aw ahalt 4 nt of contempt on n the old inzinna foce he delivered him tit if of nn an oracular grunt atte N brimi inina N no 0 indian NO 01 ol 1 coyote I 1 though lie suspected 31 arnld aldonado mould ouid lie ile on principle though it might to that MO third of hll his ellb glib issue aare anlie bet et a thread of truth coir lant with the others and thi unit corti 1 might be pulled 0 tt it of his ru mantle fabric aillen hen the he of the he gila a run led IM look out for 11 ilc ac doubted that they ever ran red rd he ile mould alv ail 0 r n LI he lie h ml 1 alao spoken of i cde knorn to 0 o Ind lindlang lang of n huni ir ith lilt yar ulten lie file unison dragon grobis u this he lie had bad declared areil was n ear nr toll oil 11 anik with and bd the i i 11 I 1 will happ chancie mt et ln atik nith r net nt tit the Yi wili illek 1 I 1 wr 1 he WW art frt f wl 1 4 V F A 4 atal marhall berl re tip the had come to the pleading he ho had ext mated ft adirine against the completion of the wooden nt at the Cr Crol opting ng and riven iv 11 him 1 new arlew point tl there wax waa a fighting thil chance see and he lie wanted ant to be fair next to being tie lie wanted to be f fair q ir itis time to be hearing from slap rhall ill kard wai thinking as a he walked back to the hotel 1 11 I wonder what lie will nay pay lie felt it had been boen air fair to put tt it MI tit to marshall I 1 personal ly lie lip would like to bt begin gin with it 11 clenn clean late byln right clumsy ork hall aten dint it v will true yet dim thero were urgent now for hitte hn lel and the gati gato ani nearly alif elnel he lie hail linit lone u carefully a over er the situation the 1 ay now fiill I 1 un ann for a hundri d ac coidin to t tin tho Ind ianson on tle the avind itar ile s the lake lakes swollen mill ice tile gila a the cummer floods yit Y t to be met diet perhaps he lie now IK it had len leta o in cm em lie file argument arguments for the tile head kate glit tor for the hundred feet vere inere now a thouman I 1 fiet yet he had find spoken of that to alar hall calculate for oirolf af the difference in es penile hince e the fl flood 41 1 I 4 I 1 the lire break it k it Is I 1 n vastly lastly different problem now disaster Die after island which they figured on for anchor ii it mero pit it if corroding in n the chinn an want col cot ando coul I 1 un enli h it away it lot f work lias tons ally bet tien Is done 11 and nil it lot of money pt p nt tin till re Is 1 a th ince perhaps ho the ind I 1 ud year is oil till indian talk A lit tit m nt at best whatever they did lid I 1 it its pure gamble nhat the tile tricky ci 0 horndo mould do to angway he hall riven the hole tion to it marshall in his hi box at the tile hotel was alan a tele ghim chich hud find imn sent oer oler from the domce from froin toil toll Mar marchall Mu Rhall take tit he fighting lantice lin tice hut renit renumber niber to pitak nore inure r of Ind indiana lanti 1 marshall all our or hin lunsted glied illi fill pill ordinate ll 11 now it aln a eq e of hurtle S lilt 1 dollars to doughnuts us its junior U ve e dont ion t do its it V I 1 CHAPTER bardl hardina luck two days lat int re ins a shock of e no so ht lit that thu tho lapping of the water in kici ard ards s both nina hie lils intimation ot t tho the earths uneasiness in the tho dining noni inter litter ho lie found ev amne it 10 boho lo could re UK lilli inex biCan run in that desert the fl first tot shake I 1 during the tile morning inor nini as rs are t torn orn the tile ani i r 0 ot dis sister here cpr id 1 I their own chok aas the edge of the convulsion which hat ha I 1 been serious elsewhere no one knew quita quite where here or why kenw it at t all the men who ito were ere shoveling beirth on file he levee began to talk of sin in I 1 ran clio boine home on oil PAI 1 I 1 that alint the tile city alts wa baille hurt no 0 o one could confirm tho the lumir lait lit it U brew with till the da do rickard inet met it at lie the office late into 1 li tit lie afternoon he ile went dirtat to tit alie i tt operator operators dt 1 att lo 10 1 annies the tile 0 11 dike ottle e aud and be quick ahoi abol I 1 IV it in ten minute lit i ta talking to billith 41 solo that the dain daill nee aige b the enral quake to that fly as not known I 1 lit tit it nna afire n joa had lind it hail had report cd ed the o 0 cr creel eeling ins up the resi resl blinci hills of that kay jay gestern alty hinlers In lers were falling in the tile town rickard doped d tho the receiver hartfi lit rem hardin tom from a knot of men who were vere talking in a corner bi the door na cheres that machinery 1 tut lilt machinery I 1 t nw aw the tile abr to his question in the other others face fate tile dredge machinery D it d you attend to that did send fur for it oh aes ics all right it its s all likht I 1 la Is it bt hart rt 7 attempted jocularity 11 dian didn t know na nil 3 ou 1 v anted it here I 1 order ordena it sent to yuma 1 it nt at unia alardin admitted that it was not yet nt tit it bould tt I 1 there oon boon he hud had it i is it will man all liht wita tiff d i aou tu i ritel reddened under tit tle cate of if he ile re aenid nid be ing lit auld ill up tip I 1 afore his lilt nun n the oth erv felt tile in the tile air ilar liar din nn tin I 1 hla III uce bor or atre s t re blaring nt at pull like I 1 I 1 arkid bihon did you write 1 leteney I lete berday at tt rd xa 1 rickard ripped out an anth I 1 i sh rd ty 11 hy by at nil I 1 id it like to know did ou understand that iou vire to get that here N iw it a gone 1 gooel fi oue tho the oil otters ers cro crowded ded up I 1 sin iro 1 a burning he ite d into ill ills lilt ibur t r offitt mud ch citar or through he lie wa not thinking of alig ruin of th ga oung city not a tho att t did till he fie lne of ohp lip human tangi tragedies iles enacting pilaf ting there of homes ches fortune fot foi tune times swept into thit hure huge bonfire aa am it tid the work nork at the river the to his campaign the came cattle home to him hills lie hid witt a picture of tortured twisted iron fron of ruined nery the nil chinery for hia dredge alredge he lie iw it lying ilki it spent Latic tion uri writhing thing in ita its lat st llo blanid for it ithie i ing even such a bmw detail as the hast ming of the parts to 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