The Delta independent., 1916-04-14
COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SlRiBnER0 SOn<
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CHAPTER I-Brouillard chief engineer
on the Niquoia irrigation dam. goes out
from camp to investigate a strange light
and finds an automobile party camped at
the canyon portal.
CHAPTER II-Brouiilard meets ]. wes-
hey Cartwright and his daughter Gene
We've of the auto party and explains the
reclamation work to them.
project big chance to make money land
no chance for a man to get in anywhere"
Brouiilard is impervious to hints from the
nnancier who tells Genevieve the engi-
neer will come down and hook himself
II the bait is well covered"
CHAPTER Iv-Cortwright organizes a
company and obtains government con-
tracts to furnish power and material for
sprngs mp aSoat the Site Steve us Mass shy
gale threatens to start gold rush II
Brouillard does not, influence President
Ford to build a railroad branch to the
place, thus opening an easy market for
the ore from the Little Susan" mine.
CHAPTER v-Brouillard and the COM
pany's promoter clash. but on orders from
Washington Brouillard turns over the
plans for the power installation
CHAPTER Won a visit to Amy Mas.
eingale at her fathers mine Brouillard
nnds she understands him better than he
had thought
CHAPTER Willie tells her of his need
for money to pay off his dead fathers
debts and that to be free he would sacri-
fice ANYTHING save his love. for one WON
an. Though his influence is vital to the
building of the railroad extension she
tells him to be true to himself. He de-
cides for it
CHAPTER VIII-Mirapolis, the city of
numbered days. booms; Cartwright per
suades Brouillard to become consulting
err company in return for 100000 stock.
CHAPTER Ix-Rumors that the govern
Grislow to tell Brouil1ard that he is lean
ing to the Cartwright side to make the
city permanent. Brouillard denies it
CHAPTER x-Permanent building In
Mirapolis and a real estate boom are in
full swing when the stoppage of work on
the railroad threatens panic. Brouillard
spreads the Massingale story of placer
gold in the river bed and starts GOLD
rush.
! David Massingale shook hands on it
with more gratitude, colored this time
with a hearty imprecation. Dad burn
you. Victor Br'uillard, you're a man
ever single mill-run of you'll" he burst
out. But Brouillard shook his head
gravely.
mo. Mr.. Massingale, I'm the little
yellow dog you mentioned while
back" he asserted. and then he went
to get the money.
Left alone in the small retiring room
Of the bank where the business had
been transacted, David Massingale
took the sheaf of bank notes from his
pocket with trembling hands, fondling
It as a miser might. Twice the old
man made as II he would turn toward
the door of egress. and the light in his
gray-blue eyes was the reminding
flame of a passion long denied. But
in the end he thrust the tempting
sheaf back into the inner pocket and
went resolutely to the cashiers coun
ter window, finding Schermerhorn, the
president, sitting at the cashiers desk
1--WE come to take up them notes o
mine with John Wes' name on EN-
Massingale began, pulling out the thick
sheaf of redemption money.
HIN, yes, here they are. Brought
the cash, did you? The Little Susan
has begun to pan out, has it? l didn't
know you had commenced shipping ore
yeti"
made the admission and regretted 1t in
one and the same breath.
You've borrowed to meet these
hottest" queried the president, look
ing up quickly. THAT won't do. Mr.
Massingale; that won't do at all. We
can't afford to lose an old customer
that way. What's the matter with ouI
money? Doesn't 1t look good to yoy
any more?"
Massingale stammered out some
thing about Cashier Hardwick's per
emptory demand of few hours earlier
but he was not permitted to finish.
"Of course. that is all right from
Hardwick's point of view. He was
merely looking out for the maturing
paper. How much more time will yor
need to enable you to get returns from
your shipments? Sixty days? AL
right, you needn't make out new notes
I'll indorse the extension on the bach
of these. and I'll undertake to gel
Cortwright's approval myself. No; not
q word, Mr.. Massingale. AS long as
you're borrowing. you must be loyal
and borrow of us. Good afternoon
Come again when we can help you
out"
David Massingale turned away
dazed and confused beyond the power
of speech. When the mists of astound
ment cleared he found himself In the
street with the thick wad OF banl
notes still in his pocket. Suddenly
out Of the limbo into which two years
OF laborious discipline and self-denia