Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-09-15

win out IL to hurry-6nish
Am and finish 1t quick. before
So or anybody else can get &C
Q single instant Brouillard was
led. Then he began to under
q.
Go on" he said.
What I was going to suggest IL
b: You prod your people at Wash
Tton with hot wire; tell 'em now's
time to strike and strike hard
Py1l see the point, and II you ask
an increase of q thousand men
I'll get 1t. Make It two thousand.
for the dramatic effect. Well
TX right along with you and make
hgs hum again. Well start up the
hent plant, and l don't know but
at we might give the Buckskin M. &
folks small hypodermic that'would
ep 'em alive while we are taking q
" snapshot pictures of Mirapolis
the jump again."
"Let me get it straight" said Brouil-
lard. putting his back against the door.
you fully believe you've got us down;
that eventually. and before the water
is turned on, congress will pass q bill
killing the Niquoia project. But in the
to make things lively. you'd
like to have the reclamation service go
ahead and spend another million or so
in wages that can be turned loose in
Mirapolis. Is that it,"
You've surrounded 1t very neatly"
laughed the promoter. "Once, some
little time ago, l might have felt the
necessity Of convincing your scruples.
but you've cut away all that foolish
ness. It's little tough on our good
old Uncle Samuel. Ill admit, but it'll
be only pin-prick or so in comparison
to the money that is thrown away
every time congress passes an appro-
piration bill. And, putting II upon the
dead practical basis, Brouillard. it's
your own and only salvation-person-
ally, l mean. You've got to unload or
go broke. and you can't unload on a
falling market. You think about it and
then get quick action with the wire.
There is no time to lose."
Brouillard was looking past Cort-
wright and out through the plate glass
window which commanded q view of
the great dam and its network of forms
and stagings.
1T is a gamblers bet and a rather
desperate one," he said slowly. you
stand to win all or to lose all in max
ing it. Mr.. Cartwright. The town is
on the knife-edge of a panic
at this moment. Would 1t 60 up, or
down, with a sudden resumption of
work on the damn"
The careless thinker would say
that it would yell Fire! and go up in.
to the air so far that 1t could never
climb down." was the prompt reply.
But we'll have the medicine dropper
handy. In the first place, everybody
can afford to stay and boost while
Uncle Sam is spending his million or
20 right here in the middle of things.
Nobody will want to pull out and leave
hat COW unmilked. In the second
place. we've got q mighty good anti
tote to use in any sure-enough case
If hydrophobia your quick dam build.
ing may start"
"You could let 1t leak out that, in
spite Of all the hurrah and rush on
he dam. congress is really going to in
.erfere before we are ready to turn
he water on" said Brouillard musing.
y and as II 1t were only his thought
slipping into unconscious speech.
Precisely. We could make that prop
hold II you were actually putting the
op course on your wall and making
to drop the stop-gate in
7our spillway."
Il see." was the rejoinder, and It
vas made in the same half-absent
Monotone. But while we are still on
he knife-blade edge q little
,ush Mr.. Cartwright, II there
we're one solitary righteous man left |
n Mirapolis-"
There isn't" chuckled the promoter,
urning back to his desk while the en-
,ineer was cropping for the door knob |
-"at least. nobody with that particu-
ar brand of righteousness backed by |
he needful inside information. You
20 ahead and do your part and well |
10 the rest"
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