Putnam patriot., 1911-09-01

day he remembered how for days and weeks be had nearly starved. how he had sold papers at first and then by lucky chance became errand boy in a big drafting establishment. It was there that the ambition was born in him. He saw great engineers come and go-men who were greater than presidents to him and Y Do sought out the ends of the earth in the following of their voca tion. He made a slave ef himself in the nurturing and streugda ening of his ambition to becomf lene of them-to be builder of r saroads and bridges. a tunneler Of n.yuntains. a creator of new things n new lands. Voluntarily be had ke Et himself D bondage fighting ces sselessly the ob- stacles in his way. tr tr.umphiug sr his handicaps as few 1thef men 4ad tri- umphed. rising sl VI lv stee /. resist lessly, until nov | dgas. back his head and The ptlse Of us heart quick ened as he heg ri again 5he words of Van Horn. BrSideni the greatest engineering fyluPaA= Jn the continent.
 "Howland we've .ecided to put you in charge 5f the uilding of the Hud son Bay T dlroaf It's one of the wild est jobs we've tver had. and Gregson and TT ,rne ont seem to catch on phey'r bri6 .e builders and not wilder nessy tnen. We've got to lay single line. If S eel through 300 miles of the widest ,.ountry in North America. and f,asm ais honr your motto is no 1T or A,ust You can report at Le Pas a. sec 4 as you get your traps togeth her.
 Those words had broken the slave dem for Rowland. He had been fight ing for an opportunity. and now that the opportunity had come be was sure that he would succeed. Swiftly, WILD his hands thrust deep in his pockets. he walked down the one main street of Prince Albert. putting out odorous clouds of smoke from his cigar. every fiber in him tingling with the new Joy that had come into his life. Another night would see him iD Le Pas. the llt- tie outpost sixty miles farther east on the Saskatchewan Then hundred miles by dog sledge and he would be in the big wilderness camp where ooo men were already al work clearing way to the great bay to the horth What q glorious achievement that road vould be, IL would remain for all times as cenetaph to his ablllty, hls courage and indomitable persistence
 n ,lf 9Th entered the little old Winsor hotei The big room. through the windows oi Uhich he could look out on the street and across the frozen Saskatchewan' was almost empty In one corner. part tv shrouded in gloom. sat nail Dreeo trapper who had come Tn that aas from the Lac Ia Ronge country. ana al his feet crouehed one Of his woihsh -1odoa doqs Both were widea wake and stared curiousiy at HoWland as he oor,e in In front of the two large r~tndows sar half a dozen men as silent as the half breed. clad in moeeasihs and thick caribou skin coats
 Feeling in his pocket for cigar. uoulond seated himself before one oi inc windows and preferred IL to one VI the men. ,ton ably .sa,d the
 .I was born in a wigwam- salo 'o@ man slowly. taking the cigar nAnA you" from Lac Bain That's a good distance h0f'" isn't itY ,,.S the
 -Four hundred miles. repleu 'n. man with quiet terseness- were op inc edge of the Barren lands
 .Wbewr Rowland shrugged % us shoulders Then ne volunteered. " going north myself tomorrow
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 No. engineer. I'm putting tnroush the Hudson Bay railroad -
 Re spoke inc words quite e'eariy. and as they fell from bis lips the Dan breed. partly concealed in the e'os.. hshind him. straighfened win me
 thickness of . cat. He ieaneo '" va I'd eagerly. his black eyes s'eahi,e and then rose softly from his seat 2 r,ocrasiued feet made no sound as u'