The Green Forest tribune., 1916-04-14

 CHAPTER Il-Continued.

ID gxts XNWdS JuoI tCil1llS c1i 1OA USS SAi~S St shis thundering fish cartridge would le raise the neighbors," the trail climber hWent on with a stout mans chuckle. of And then: You're one of the reclama- laAion Engineers? Great work the gov oYl lernment is undertaking here. You vare connected with it, aren't you?' ,op Brouillards nod was for the man, ct woman whose beauty refused to be miQuenched by the touring handicaps. ts t'Yes. am in charge of ii" he said. or "Ha!' said the stout man, and this time the exclamation was purely ap- probative. Chief engineer, eh? That's Thine, fine! My name is Cartwright f itJ. Wesley Cartwright of Chicago. And yours is-?"
 Brouillard named himself in one Itswos Strangers usually found him 6lSA1y unres2, nsive to anything like ieffusiveness, but he was finding it cu- |, riousIy difficult to resist the good naxured heartiness which seemed to -}exude from the talkative gentleman, loverlaying him like the honeydew on J&x0i 4SdpcS III d uIOu6uIy lOlt t6L. . If MT. J. Wesley Cortwright's sur u prise on hearing the Brouillard sur name was not genuine it was at least !, Mn excellent imitation.
 Well, well, well-you don't say! Mot of the Brouillards of Knox county, nndiana ?-but, of course, you must be"
 Yes" said Brouillard. Our branch HaLrRA Co, and my father was on the bench, when he wasn't in politics"
 What? Not Judge Antoine! Why, myEd dear young man! Do you know nhat l once had the pleasure of intro tducing your good father to my bank CTS In Chicago? It was years ago, at E V time when he was interested in float ling a bond issue for some growing in- 0ustry down on the Wabash And to think that away out here in this howl { Ang wilderness, thousand miles from inowhere, as you might say, l should meet his son!"
 Brouillard laughed and fell headlong Into the pit of triteness.
 The world isn't so very big when you come to surround it properly, Mr. 2 Cortwright," he asserted.
 You are wondering what fool mo- tion chased us away out here in the ldesert when we had a comfortable ho- tel to stop at," he rattled on. "T'Il tell you, MT. Brouillard-in confidence. lltW was curiosity-raw, country curios- itty. The papers and magazines have fbeen full of this Buckskin reclamation I1cheme, and we wanted to see the place where all the wonderful miracles were going to get themselves wrought out. Have you got time to put us next
 Brouillard, as the son of the man awho had been introduced to the Chi cago money gods in his hour of need, could scarcely do less than to take the Itlme. The project, he explained, con- remplated the building of a high dam across the upper end of the Niouoia canyon and the converting of the in- iano valley above into a great storage reservoir. From this reservoir a series IF Yhulstrlputlng canals would lead the water out upon the arid lands of the Yuckskin and the miracle would be a Tact accomplished.
 Sure, sure!" said the cheerful uuer. iast, feeling in the pockets of the au- ltOmoDlle coat for a cigar. At the match-striking instant he remembered thing neglected. By George! you'll nave to pardon me, Mr. Brouillard: I'm AiWays forgetting the little social dew NaDs. Let me present you to my 0aughter Genevieve. Gene, shake nands with the son of my good old nriend, Judge Antoine Brouillard of Vifcennes."
 ~ was rather awkwardIy done. and Somehow Brouillard could not heln lIancylng that Mr. Cartwright could nave done it better. But when the Nnquenchable beauty stripped her &auntlet and gave him her hand. with
 dazzling smile and a word of ac- 1AAoWledgment which was not bor- Eowed from her fathers effusiye vo- [ capuiary, he straightway fell into an-
 tner plt or triteness and his saving ntst impressions of Mir. J. Wesley Cort. lwElght's character began to fade.
 I'm immensely interested" was MISS Cortwrights comment on the ont. sanlng of the reclamation project. "Do you mean to say that real farms with
 green things growing on them can he taAue out Of that frightful desert we
 roVe over yesterday afternoon
 brouillard Emiled and nlunqed fot,