Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-05
However ;nconsiderate Mr.. colbrith

! However inconsiderate Mr.. Colbrith
was, she was blamaless.
Let me show you he said, taking
the field glass and adjusting it for
her Now hold 1t steadily and pick
| up the line in the great loop. =
| Have you found it? !" Now follow
! it slowly until you come to the point
! where it turns into the valley, and
you can trace ii for miles by the cuts
and fills
She followed his directions until the
| line of the extension became vanish.
ing thread in the distance. and then
was content TO let the glass sweep
the yastness beyond. When she spoke
it was of the topographic immensities.
Il heard you telling brother at the
dinner table in Chicago that you were
able to see more in this wilderness
! than YOU have ever been able TO make
/ the glass;"
/ Hardly" he said y was trying
| TO tell your brother Of the magnificent
tween this and that farthest mountain
range: the country we are going to
| open uD. 1t was a gospel had been
! trying TO rreach TO the directors, bur
none of them balieved-not even your
uncle
/ 81 see nothing but vastness and cold
arav Frandaurs, she said. adding:
.'ard The very bigness Of it makes me
! feel like a mere atom, Or molecule--
whichever is the smaller
| "yet it is a new empire in the
rough" he reioined. with a touch Of
the old enthusiasm. waiting only TO"
the coming Of this''-putting his foot
again uDon the steel of the new rail
road line what you are looking al
| has been called a part of the Great
| American Desert--the most forbiddins
part. in the stories Of the early ex-
plorers. Notwithstanding, there will
come n time when you can focus your
glass here on this mountain and look
out over what the promoters will then
| be ADVERTISING as a. 'peopled paradise,
4; and these logs Of wood in a row
with two strands of iron to fasten
them together will bring il to pass"
There was fash of the en-
thusiast's FIRE in the cool gray eyes
to go with the words. and Miss Adair
wondered OF it. He had stood for her
as an embodiment of things practical
and prossic: as one too keenlv watch
full and alert on the purely industrial
side to be in any sense dreamer OF
dreams. Some part Of her thought
slipped into speech.
"No ] am not an enthusiast he
denied, in reply to her charge. CAT
bottom I'm only an engineer with ar
ambition to build railroads. But
should have learned no more than
half CT my trade if couldn't tell
where it would be profitable to build
Them
Never mind YOU seem to have
convinced Uncle Sidney and the di.
rectors finally" she commented.
mo: your uncle and the directors
are not empire builders meaning to
be-" he objected. "They are after the
present visible dollar in western out
let for the Pacific Southwestern, If
we reach Green Butte before our COM
petitors can broaden their narrow
gauge to that point, we shall have
practicable line from Chicago to the
Pacific coast
|, Il understand" she said. But yours
is the higher ideal-the true Ameri
can ideal"
cts business he asserted
''Welt. isn't business the very heart
and soul of the American ideal?" she
laughed.
This time he laughed. with her. for
getting his troubles for the moment
II guess it is, in the last analysis"
he said. And then: I'm sorry to
keep you waiting so long, if YOU are
anxious to get back to the Nadia But
warned YOU beforehand must keep
my appointment with F'risbie Do yon
see anything of him." This because
she was again sweeping the western
wilderness. with the field glass,
What am to look foro'
THE smoke of an engine
She focused the glass on the gorge
at the foot of the pass 81 see it,"
she cried. "A little black beetle of
think Just barely crawling. Now ii