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To lessen this -y scour Mge2'ariane
had looted a carload of plank switch.
ed on to a aiding, and a gang of men
in charge of Jack,—who had now
reached his Chief's Side,—were drag-
ging them along the down -stream
slope to form sluices with which to
break the force of the scour.
The top of the flood now poured
into the mouth of the newly dug
trench, biting huge mouthfuls of
earth from its sides in its rush;
spreading the reddish water fan-like
over the down -stream slope: first in-
to gullies; then a broad sluiceway
that sunk out of sight in the soft
earth; then crumblings, slidings of
tons of sands and gravel, with here
and there a bowlder washed clean;
the men working like beavers; here
to free a rock, there to drive home a
plank, the trench all the while deep-
ening, widening—now a gulch ten feet
across and as deep, now a canon
through which surged a solid mass of
frenzied water.
With the completion of the first
row of planking MacFarlane took up
a position where he could overlook all
parts of the work. Every now and
then his eyes would rest on a water -
gauge which he had improvised from
the handle of a pick; the rise and
fall of the wet mark showing him
both the danger and safety lines. He
seemed the least interested man in
the group. Once in a while he would
consult his watch, counting the "sec-
onds, only to return to the gauge.
That thousands of dollars' damage
had so far been done did not seem
to affect him in the least. Only when
Jack would call out that everything
so far was solid on the main "fill" did
his calm face light up.
Tightening his wide slouch hat far-
ther down on his head, he drew up
the tops of his high-water boots and
strode through the slush to the pick -
handle. His wooden record showed
that half an hour before the water
had been rising at the rate of an inch
every three minutes; that it had then
taken 'six, and now required eight!
He glanced at the sky; it had stop-
ped raining and a light was breaking
in the west.
Pocketing his watch he beckoned to
Jack:
"The worst is over, Breen," he said
in a voice of perfect calmness—the
tone of a doctor after feeling a pa-
tient's pulse. "Our culvert is doing
its work and relieving the pressure.
This water will be out of here by
morning. Tell the foreman to keep
those planks moving wherever they
do any good, but they won't count
much longer. You can see the dif-
ference already in the overflow. And
now go up to the house and tell Ruth.
She may not know we are all right
and will be worrying."
Jack's heart gave a bound. No
more delightful duty could devolve on
him.
"What shall I tell her about the
ed.
damage if she asks me, sir?" he de-
manded, hiding his pleasure in a per-
functory, businesslike tone, "and she
will."
"Tell her it means all summer here
for me and no new bonnets for her
until next winter," replied MacFar-
lane with a grim smile.
"Yes, I suppose, but I referred to
the money loss," Jack laughed in re-
ply. "There is no use worrying her
if we are not to blame for this." He
didn't intend to worry her. He was
only feeling about for some topic
which would prolong his visit and
encourage conversation.
"If we are, it means some thou-
sands of dollars on the wrong side of
the ledger," answered MacFarlane af-
ter a pause, a graver tone in his voice.
"But don't tell Ruth that. Just give
her my message about the bonnet—
she will understand."
"But not if McGowan is liable;"
argued Jack. If Ruth was to hear
bad news it could at least be quali-
fied.
"That depends somewhat on the
wording of his contract, Breen, and
a good deal on whether this village
wants to hold him to it. I'm not
crossing any bridges of that kind, and
don't you. What I'm worrying about
is the number of days and nights it's
going to take to patch,this work so
they can get trains through our tun-
nel— And, Breen—"
"Yes. sir," answered Jack, as ho
stopped and looked over his shoulder.
There were wings on his feet now.
"Get into some dry clothes before
you come back."
While all this had been going on
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bei bead with a loose veil,, and was
dq teres "end into the street before
Mite boy had reached the curb,
"Yes, mum," he stammered breath-
lessly, his eyes bulging from `lis head,
"Oh! it's awful, mum! Don't know
how many's drownded! Everybody's
shovelin' on de railroad dump, but
dere ain't nothin' kin save it, dey
say!"
She raced on—across the long street
avoiding the, puddles as best she
could; past the Hicks Hotel—no sign
of Jack anywhere—past the factory
fence, until she reached the railroad,
where she .stopped, gathered her bed-
raggled skirts in her hand and then
sped on over the cross -ties like a
swallow, her little feet scarce touch-
ing the cinders.
Jack had caught sight of the flying
girl as she gained the railroad and
awaited her approach; he supposed
she was the half -crazed wife or daugh-
ter of some work -man, bringing news
of fresh disaster, until she approach-
ed near enough for him to note the
shape and size of her boots and the
way the hat and veil framed her face.
But it was not until she uttered a
cry of agony and ran straight toward
him, that he sprang forward to meet
her and caught her in his arms to
keep her from falling. .
"Oh, Jack!—where is daddy—
where—" she gasped.
"Why, he is all right, Miss Ruth—
everybody's all right! Why did you
come here? Oh, I am so sorry you
have had this fright! Don't answer
—just lean on me until you get your
breath."
Yes—but are you sure he is safe?
The grocer's boy said nobody had
seen hint alive."
"Of course I am sure! Just look
across—there he is; nobody could
ever mistake that old slouch hat of
his. And look at the big 'fill.' It
hasn't given an inch, Miss Ruth—
think of it! What a shame you have
had such a fright;" he continued as
he led her to a pile of lumber beside
the track and moved out a dry plank
where he seated her as tenderly as
if she had been a frightened child,
standing over her until she breathed
easier.
"But then, if he is safe, why did
you leave daddy? You are not hurt
yourself, are you?" she exclaimed
suddenly, reaching up her hand and
catching the sleeve of his tarpaulin,
a great lump in her throat.
"Me, hurt!—not a bit of it,—not a
scratch of any kind,—see!" As an
object -lesson he stretched out his
arm with one clenched hand smote
his chest gorilla fashion.
"But you are all wet—" she per-
sisted, in a more reassured tone.
"You must not stand here in this
wind; you will get chilled to the
bone. You must go home and get
into dry clothes;—please say you will
go?"
Something warm and scintillating
started from Jack's toes as the words
left her lips, surged along his spinal
column, set his finger tips tingling
end his heart thumping like a trip
hammer. She had called him "Jack!"
She had run a mile to rescue him
and her father, and she was anxious
lest he should endanger his precious
life by catching cold. Coldl—had he
been dragged through the whirlpool'
of Niagara in the dead of winter with
the thermometer at zero and then
cast on a stranded iceberg he would
now be sizzling hot.
Again she repeated her command,
—this time in a more peremptory
tone. the same anxious note in her
voice.
"Please come, if daddy doesn't
want you any more you must go
home at once. I wouldn't have you
take cold for—" she did not finish
the sentence; something in his face
told her that her solicitude might al-
ready have betrayed her.
"Of course, I will go just as soon
as you are rested a little, but you
mustn't worry about me, Miss Ruth,
I am as wet as a rat, I know, but I
am that way half the time when it
rains. These tarpaulins let in a let
of water—" here he lifted his arms
so she could see the openings herself
--Pend then I got in over my boots
trying to plug the holes in the sluice-
way with some plank. He was look-
ing down into her eyes now. Never
had he seen her so pretty. The ex-
ercise had made roses of her cheeks,
and the up -turned face framed by the
thatch of a bonnet bound with the
veil, reminded him of a Madonna.
"And is everything all right with
daddy? And was there nobody in
the shanties?" she went on. "Per-
haps I might better try to get over
where he is;—do you think I can? I
would just like to tell him how glad
I am it is no worse."
"Yes, if you change boots with me,"
laughed Jack, determined to divert
her mind; "I was nearly swamped get-
ting back here. That is where most
of this mud came from—" and Jack
turned his long, clay -encrusted boot
so that Ruth could see how large a
section of the "fill" he had brought
with him.
Ruth began to laugh. There was
no ostensible reason why she should
laugh; there was nothing about Jack's
make-up to cause it. Indeed, she
thought he had never looked so hand-
some, even if his hair were plastered
to his temples under his water -soak-
ed hat and his clothes daubed with
mud.
And yet. she did laugh:—At the
way her veil got knottedunder her
chin, --so tightly knotted that Jack
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anybodynever, bei of ing the 'stream, ttnd• had heard him
the tng
slightest nae to — again,"; a tell the contractor, in so nieny words
at her bedraggled skirts—'such a that if the water got avday an
sight, and sopping wet." smashed anything below, him he
And' Jack laughed, too,—agreeing would charge the loss to his account.
to everything stagshe e
lid, until she McGowan had growled in dissent, but
reachedion,neverthatri ted' in the converse. it had made no, impression on Garry,
tics„omitted' on arcasionc of whose duty it was to see that the
this kind, when she. declared, arching work was properly carried out and
per. head, that .she must look like whose signature loosened the village
perfeccttfright, which Jack at once re-- purse strings.
futed exclaiming that he had never None of these details would inter-
saysaher look so—he was going to est Ruth; nor was It necessary that
"pretty,” toed "bel checked trusteed,hadding, in asnd they.. should. The bonnet, however,
substituted "w herll," ridiculously small was. another matter. Bonnets were
he wiped offdespifher protests,with s worn over pretty heads and framed
boots, re her cl cloud -bursts
shts lovely hair and faces and eyes=,one
wet handkerchief,—thatns,oad-bursts especially! And then again any
were not such bad things, after all, pleasantry of her father's would tend
now that he was to have the pleasure to relieve her mind after the anxiety
of escorting her home.
And so the two walked back to the 1 of the morning. Yes, the bonnet by
all means!
village, the afternoon sun, which had "OhI never gave you your father's
now shattered the lowering clouds, messag, e,' he began, laying aside his
gilding and glorifying their two faces, cup, quite as if he had just aside er-
Jack stopping at Mrs. Hicks's to ed it. "I ought to have done so be-
onchange his clothes and Ruth keeping fore you hung up the hat you wore
to the house, where he was to a while ago."
join her an hour later, when the two Ruth looked up, smiling; "Why?"
would have a cuptea and such ' There was a roguish expression about
other comforts ass that young lady her mouth as she spoke. She was
might prepare for her water -soaked very happy this afternoon.
lover- "He says you won't get a new bon -
CHAPTER XXI net all summer," continued Jack, toy -
If ten minutes make half an hour, ing with the end of the ribbon that
then it took Jack that long to rush floated from her waist.
upstairs, two steps at a time, burst Ruth put down her cup and half
into his room, strip' off his boots, tear rose fromher chair. All the color
off his wet clothes, struggle into had faded from her chees.
others jerked from his wardrobe, tie Did he tell you that?"she cried,
a loose, red -silk scarf under the roll- her eyes staring into his, her voice
ing collar of his light -blue flannel trembling as if from some sudden
shirt, slip into a grey pea -jacket and
unmentionables, give his hair a brush
and a promise, tilt a dry hat on one
side of his head and skip downstairs
again. Then something serous has hap
Ols1 Mrs. Hicks had seen him cos- pened," she interrupted in a decided
ing and had tried to catch him as he tone. "That is always his message
flew out the door, hoping to get some to me when he is in trouble. That
more definite news �'f the calamity • he {o,,,,,,,o„i,„a ,,,, ,"ti„„ y„•
which had stirred the village, but he
was gone before she could reach the
front hall.
He had not thoughtof his better
clothes; there might still be work to
do, and his Chief mightagain need his
services. Ruth would understand, he
said to himself—all of which was
true. Indeed, she liked him better in
his high-water hoots, wide slouch hat
and tarpaulins than in the more con-
ventional suit of immaculate black
with which he clothed his shapely
body whenever he took her to one of
the big dinners at one of the great
houses on Washington Square.
And she liked this suit best of all.
She had been peeping through the
curtains and her critical admiring
eyes had missed no detail. She saw
that the cavalier boots were gone,
but she recognized the short pea -
jacket and the loose rolling collar of
theoft flannel shirt circlingthe
s
strong, bronzed throat, and the dash
of red in the silken scarf.
And so itis not surprising that
when he got within sight of her win-
dows, his checks aflame with the crisp
air, his eyes snapping with the joy of
once more hearing her voice, her
heart should have throbbed with an
undefinable happiness and pride as
she realized that for a time, at least,
he was to be all her own. And yet
when he had again taken her hand—
the warmth of his last pressure still
lingered in her palm—,end had looked
into her eyes and had said how he
hoped he had not kept her waiting,
all she could answer in reply was the
non -committal remark:
"Well, now you look something like”
—at which Jack's heart gave a great
bound, any compliment, however
slight, being so much manna to his
hungry soul; Ruth adding, as she led
the way into the sitting=room, "I
lighted the wood fire because I was
afraid you might still be cold."
And ten minutes had been enough
for Ruth.
It had been one of those lightning
changes which a pretty girl can al-
ways make when her lover is expect-
ed any instant and she does not want
to lose a moment of his bine, but it
Som had sufficed.
if hin g soft and
clinging it was i w; her lovely,
rounded figure m ing in its folds as
a mermaid moves in the surf; her
hair shaken out and caught up again
in all its delicious abandon; her
cheeks, lips, throat, rose -color in the
joy of her expectancy.
He sat drinking it all in. Had a
fright.
Jack gazed at her in wonderment:
"Yes—of course he did an— Why,
Miss Ruth!— Why, what's the mat-
ter! Have I said anything that—"
lost the coffer -dam in the Susquehan-
na. Oh!—he did not really tell you
that, did he, Mr. Breen?" The old
anxious note had returned—the one
he had heard at the "fill."
"Yes—but nothing serious has hap-
pened, Miss Ruth," Jack persisted, his
voice rising in the intensity of his
conviction, his earnest, truthful eyes
fixed on hers—"nothing that will not
come out all right in the end. Please,
don't be worried, I know what I ash
talking about."
"Oh, yes, it is serious," she re-
joined with equal positiveness. "You •
do not know daddy. Nothing ever
discourages him, and he meets eyery-
thing with a smile—but he cannot
stand any more losses. The explos-
ion was bad enough, but if this fill'
is to be rebuilt, I don't know what
will he the end or it. Tell me over
again, please—how did he look when
he said it?—and give me just the
very words. Oh, dear, dear daddy!
What will he do?" The anxious note
had now fallen to one of the deepest
suffering.
Jack repeated the message word for
word, all his tenderness in his tones
—patting her shoulder in his effort to
comfort her—ending with a minute
expinnation of what Garry had told
him: but Ruth would net be convinc-
ed.
"But you don't know daddy," she
kept repeating. "You don't know
him. Nobody does hut me. He
would not have sent that message �
had he not meant it. Listen! There
he is note;" she cried, springing to
her feet.
She had her arms around' her
father's neck, her head nestling on
his shoulder before he had fairly en-
tered the door." Daddy, dear, is it
very had?" she murmured.
"Pretty bad, little girl," he answer-
ed, smoothing her cheek tenderly with
his chilled fingers as he moved with
her toward the fire, "hut it might
have been worse hut for the way
Breen handled the men."
"And will it all have to he rebuilt?"
She was glad for .Tack, but it was
her father who now filled her mind.
"That I can't tell, Puss"—one of
his pet names for her, particularly
when she needed comforting—"hut
it's safe for the night. anyway."
"And you have worked so hard --
so hard!" Her beautiful arms, bare
from the elbow, were still around his
neck, her cheek pressed close—her
lovely, clinging body in strong con-
trast to the straight, gray, forceful
man in the wet storm -cost, who stood
with arms about her while he cares-
sed her head with his brown fingers.
"Well, Puss. we have one (-onside-
tion—it wasn't our fault—the 'f$1' is
holding splendidly although it has had
a lively shaken up. The worst was
over in ten minutes, but it was pretty
y
rough while it lasted. I don't think
I ever saw water come so fast. I
saw you with Breen, but 1 couldn't
reach you then. Look out for your
dress, daughter. I'm pretty wet."
He released her arms from his
neck and walked toward the fire,
stripping off his gray mackintosh as
he moved. There he stretched his
hands to the blaze and went on: "As
I say, the "fill' is safe and will stay
so, for the water is going down rap-
idly; dropped ten feet Breen, since
you left. My!—but this fire feels
goodl Got into something dry—did
Via;' t A .li' e
you, Breen? That% right. fipt'l
am not satisfied about the way\Ille
down -stream end of the culverts acts"
—this also was addressed to Jack•—
"I am afraid some part of the arch,
has caved in. It will be bad if it
has—we shall know in the mornitlr
You weren't frightened, Puss, were
you?:" '
She did not answer. She had beard
that cheery, optimistic note in her
father's voice before; she knew how
much of it was meant for her ears.
None of bis disasters were ever ser-
ious, to hear daddy talk --"only the
common lot of the contracting en-
gineer, little girl," he would say, kiss-
ing her good -night, while he again
pored over his plops, sotnetimes until
daylight.
She crept up to him the closer and
nestled her fingers inside his collar—
an old caress of hers when she was a
child, then looking up into his eyes
she asked with almost a tlu'ob of
suffering in her voice, "Is it as bad
as the coffer -dam, daddy?"
Jack looked on in silence. He dar-
ed not add a word of comfort of his
own while his Chief held first place
in soothing her fears.
MacFarlane passed his hand over
her forehead—"Don't ask me, child!
Why do you want to bother your dear
head over such things, Puss?" he
asked, as he atroked.her hair.
"Because I must and will know.
Tell me the truth," she demanded, lift-
ing her head, a mote of resolve in her
voice. "I can help you the better if
I know it all." Some of the blood of
one of her great -great-grandmothers,
who had helped defend a log -house in
Indian times, was . asserting itself.
She could weep, but she could fight,
too, if necessary.
"Well, then, I'm afraid it is worse
than the coffer -dam," he answered in
all seriousness. "It may be a matter
of twelve or fifteen thousand dollars'
—maybe more, if we have to rebuild
the 'fill.' I can't tell yet."
Ruth released her grasp, moved to
the sofa and sank down, her chin
resting on her hand. Twelve or fif-
teen thousand dollars! This meant
ruin to everybody—to her father, to
—a new terror now flashed into her
mind—to Jack—yes, Jack! Jack
would have to go away and find other
work—and just at the time, too, when
he was getting to he the old Jack
once more. With this came another
thought, followed by en instantaneous
decision—what could she do td help?
Already she had determined on her
course. She would work—support
An uncP
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fabber lnI#r
pushed a chair
into it, his r�'ultbber-enC se
apart, so that the w
Mese could reach Mos4r pf
Jack found a 'seat beside, ht
mind'on Ruth and her 'evident--
ing, his ears alert for ant free
from his Chief.
"I forgot to•tellyou, Been;")-
Farlane said at lust, "that I eatpe „
the track just now as faras the noun
house with the Genera) Maitiger
the Read. He has sent one off'.':; bis
engineers to.look after that".Irish
rnan's job before he can pull it to
pieces. to hide his rotten work—that, `;>:
is, what is left of it. Of course
means a lawsuit or a fight in tee.
Village Council. That takes time and
money, and generally costs mere
than you get. I've been there be-
fore, Breen, and know."
"Does he understand about MC•-
Gowan's contract?" inquired Jack me-
chanically, his eyes on Ruth. Her
voice still rang in his ears—its pantos
and suffering stirred him to hit very
depths.
Yes—I told him all about it,"
Macfarlane replied. "The Road will
stand behind us—so the General Man-
ager says—but every day's delay is
ruinous to them. It will be night -
and -day work for us now, and no let
up. I have notified the men." He
rose from his seat and crossed to
his daughter's side, and leaning over,
drew her toward him: "Brace np,
little girl," there was infinite tender,
ness in his cadences—"it's all in a
life -time. There are only two of us,
you know—just you and me, daughter
—just you and me—just two of us.
Kiss me, Puss."
Regaining his full height he picked
up his 'stormcoat from the chair
where he had flung it, and with the
remark to Jack, that he would change
his clothes, moved toward the door.
There he beckoned to him, waited un-
til he had reached his side, and whis-
pering in his ear: "Talk to her and
cheer her up, Breen. Poor little girl
—she worries so when anything like
this happens"—mounted the stairs to
his room. ,
"Don't worry, Miss Ruth," sled
Jack in comforting tones'as he fb-
turned to where she sat. "We will
all pull out yet."
(Continued next week.)
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