The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-03
ton had impressed Alfred's eyes and


 lend me your button-hook? Oh, per
 haps you'll-" She put out her pretty | foot.
 Alfred was on his knee, back to
 Stella, when she closed the door. All
 the way upstairs she thought of the little scene below. Wide as was the | gulf that separated Sally B. from her
 self, she knew the type Miss Hamilton | represented was farther removed.
 The coaches arrived and they drove
 eastward on the stage road till they
 came opposite the selected spot when
 they alighted and climbed to the high
 CT railroad grade.
 | Miss Hamilton took the center of
 the stage quite naturally. She wished
 to learn, took it for granted that Al | fred would be a willing teacher.
 Where in the world did you find
 enough men? Mow many have you,
 MT. Vincent? A million ?" She looked up bewitchingly; and Alfred was not | impervious to the subtle flattery that
 for the moment invested him with the dignity of the owners and captains | of the road
 He smiled. "We have just one two mathematician of that million, Miss Hamilton. We wish we had
 more. We're going to have more, if
 we have to steal them" Miss Hamilton admired the con- | fidence in his words. We've more than 1000 horses and carts; and $25,000 order has just | been placed for more stock and tools. , Are men so hard to get?"
 White men are. Chinamen less hard"
 Why don't you use more China
 men, then?" she asked, glancing down from a rock that jutted into the path. They're afraid of drill and powder" Alfred replied to the question. They were on the grade now, creep
 ing around the shoulder of Cape Horn. | Hundreds of feet above lowered straight granite walls. Thousands of
 feet below, sheer and jagged, the
 walls met the foot of the opposite 1 mountain; and in the narrow, crooked
 crack at the bottom the American river seethed and tumbled its tortu-
 ous way to the ocean. AS they came to point where the stupendous scene opened fully before | them, Miss Hamilton's gay chatter ceased. Men hushed their talk of | stocks and bonds, purchase and sale. | Stella, too, forgot the blood and flame in ot nd
 his bright companion. This must be Ossa piled upon | Pelion," Miss Hamilton said softly breaking the long silence. She looked up, and below. trying to measure the dizzying depths.
 How ever did they get here first? And how did they dare insult that rock
 monarch with powder?" Miss Ham.
 ilton's gaze crept up, and up. to the sky-robed summit
 With ropes. They let men down from the top, who picked out standing room; and from that they worked a
 narrow path around to the grade" Got plenty of engines, Crocker?" one of the visitors asked. Six engines and over 100 cars"
 Mir. Crocker replied proudly, "and as many more ordered" That isn't a beginning to enough You'll be dropping an engine or car
 over into that gulch every day" Miss Hamilton closed her eyes and
 shivered, "Oh, how terrifying!" "Mr. Crocker forgot to mention our | powder car," Alfred added. Powder car?" she repeated Sure l ly Pluto and Proserpina will arrive to. | gether when powder rattles over this hot, rocky spot. Do you think it is so very far to--to-Tartarus? She said
 But you never heard of a powder | car like ours; it is iron-doored and rub ber-tired," Alfred explained And
 we're surely deceiving their majesties of hades, since the work at Summit tunnel goes on ceaselessly. eating our right of way six feet day and night, through the heart of the Sierras."
 "Oh, yes! Uncle Charley's very jubilant about that tunnel-indeed, about the splendid way all the work goes on"
 ''If we only had iron, iron! That's what flinders us There isn't half enough to be had in the whole coun- try"
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