The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-04-07

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and the steadiest and calmest of steel
blue eyes. when she begins to feel
tn pressure behind" he went on.
there's goin to be trouble"
Toward dusk she began to feel that
pressure. Through the rainy twilight
the logs could be seen raising their
ghostly arms Of protest. Slowly, with
out tumult, the jam formed. In the
rear they pressed in, were sucked I'M
der in the swift water and came to
rest at the bottom of the river. The
current OF the river began to protest,
pressing its hydraulics through the mar
rowing crevices. The situation demand
ed attention.
A breeze began to pull offshore in
the body of rain. Little by little II i'
creased. sending the water by In = 49,
ruflling the already hurrying river ia
greater haste, raising far from t,r
shore dimly perceived whltecaps. Be
tween the roaring OF the wind. the
dash of rain and the rush OF the stream
men had to shout to make themselves
heard.
Guess you'd better rout out the
boss" screamed Solly to Wallace Car
penter. This waters comm up an
inch an hour right along. When she
backs up once she'll push this jam out
sure"
Wallace ran to the boarding house
and reused his partner from a heavy
sleep. The latter understood the situa-
ton Mt q word. While dressing he eX-
planned to the younger man wherein
lay the danger.
"If the Jam breaks once" said he,
nothing top of earth can prevent it
from going out into the lake, and there
it III scatter heaven knows where. Once
scattered 1t is practically total loss"
They felt blindly through the rain in
the direction of the lights on the tug
and pile driver. Shearer, the water
dripping from his fiaXen mustache,
Joined them like n shadow. At the
river he announced his opinion. eve
can hold her all right" he assured
them. at III take a few more piles, but
by morning the storm III be over, and
she'll begin to go down again"
The three picked their way over the
creaking, swaying timber. But when
they reached the pile driver they found
trouble afoot. The crew had mutinied
and refused longer to drive piles I'M
der the face of the jam.
'If she breaks away she's going to
bury us" said they.
"She won't break" snapped Shearer.
"Get TO work"
Its dangerous" they objected sui
lenly.
you get Off this drivcr" shouted
Solly. eco over and lie down in a ten
acre lot and see if you feel safe there
He drove them ashore with storm
of profanity and multitude of kicks,
his steel blue eyes blazing.
There's nothing for it but to get
the boys ont again." said Tim. 81
kinder hate 10 do It."
But when the Fighting Forty, half
asleep but dauntless, took charge Of the
driver catastrophe made itself
known. One OF the elected men had
tripped the lifting chain of the ham,
mer after another had Knocked away
the heavy preventing block, and so
the hammer had fallen into the river
and was lost. None other was to be
had. The pile driver was useless.
\ dozen men were at once dispatched
for cables, chains and wire ropes from
the supply ut the warehouse.
Its part OF the same trick" said
Thorpe grimly. "Those fellows have
their men everywhere among us.
don't know whom to trust"
You think it's Morrison g. Dalyf"
queried Carpenter, astonished.
Think? know it. They know as
well as you or 1 that If we save these
logs We'll win out in the Stock EX-
change, and they're not such fools as
to let us save them If 1t can be helped"
what are you going to do nowY'