The Green Forest tribune., 1916-04-21


 hard-bitted mouth to the other. You're Billiard, the government man, 1 take it?"
 "Brouillard, if you please" was the crisp correction. And then with careful effacement of the final saving trace of hospitality in tone or manner: What can we do for you, MT. Hos- ford?"
 "A good many things, first and last. I'm two or three days ahead of my outfit, and you can put me up some- where until I get camp of my own. You've got some sort of an engineers mess, take it?"
 We have," said Brouillard briefly. You'll make yourself at home with us, of course," he added, and he tried to say it without making it sound too much like a challenge.
 All right; so much for that part of it" said the self-invited guest Now don't you sit down?"
 Brouillard planted himself behind his desk and began to fill his black ened office pipe, coldly refusing Hos. ford's tender of cigar.
 You were speaking of the business natter" he suggested bluntly. "Yes. I'd like to go over your plans for the power dam in the upper can yon. If they look good to me I'll adopt them"
 T am very far from wishing to quarrel with anybody" said Brouillard, but his tone belied the words. At the same time, if you think we are going to do your engineering work, or any part of it, for you, you are | pretty severely mistaken. Our own job is fully big enough to keep US busy"
 You're off," said the big man coolly. Somebody has bungled in giving you the dope. You want to keep your job don't you?"
 That is neither here nor there What we are discussing at present is the departments attitude toward your enterprise. I shall be exceeding my instructions if I make that attitude
  work"
 The new resident manager sat back in his chair and chewed his cigar re. f1ectively, staring up at the log beam ing of the office ceiling.
 You're just like all the other gov ernment men I've ever had to do busi ness with, Brouillard; pig-headed, ob stinate, blind as bats to their own in terests. 1 didn't especially want tC begin by knocking you into line, bu I guess it'll have to be done. l guesi the best way to get you is to send i little wire to Washington. How doe that strike you?"
 q haven't the slightest interest i what you may do or fail to do..' sai Brouillard. But you have made the plans fo ! this power plapt, ha,yen't you IT. ~sssuzs~sv-sSysasss zM5I IESs Yes, and they are the property c the department. If you want theI I'll turn them over to you upon proper order from headquarters"
 That's little more like it. Wher
 
 Rrouillard gave the information, ant as Hosford went out Grislow came il and took his place at the mappin, table.
 Glad you got back in time to save my life," he remarked pointedly, witl a shy glance at his chief. He's beer blowing furrows up and down my littl, potato patch all day"
 "Humph! Digging for information I suppose?" grunted Brouillard.
 "Just that; and he's been getting 1t too. Not out of me, particularly, but out of everybody. Also, he was willing to impart little. We're in for the time Of our lives, Victor"
 T know it. was the grabbed rejoin | der
 l You don't know the tenth part ct it. asserted the Photographer slowly It's a modest name, The Niquoia I'm proyement company, but 1t is going to be like charity-covering a multi tude of sins. Do you know what that plank-faced organizer has got ur his | sleeve? He Is going to build MS a  neat, up-to-date little city right here in the middle of our midst. If I hadn't made him believe that l was only a draftsman, he would have had me out with transit, running the lines for the streets"
 "A city?-in this reservoir bottom 1 I guess not. He was only stringins | VOIJ tn ki11 firra Cri71uJ,
 Don't you fool yourself!" e0 claimed the mapmaker. He's got the plans in his grip. We're going to be on little reservation set apart for us l by the grace of God and the kind. ness of those promoters. The remain, | der of the valley is laid off into cute little squares and streets, with every. thing named and numbered, ready to | be listed in the brokers offices. You ! may not be aware of 1t, but this pala. tial office building of ours fronts on Chigringo avenue" Stuff" said Brouillard. What has all this bubble blowing got to do with the building of a temporary dam and the setting up of couple Of cement kiIpco