The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-03-23
~ CHAPTER XIV AZ;
The Feast OF Hurahs

the railroad, straining every nerve an
crowding three shifts into the 24hou
day. pushed it's rails along the foothi
bench OF Chigringo. tossed up its ten
pcrary station buildings, and signale
its opening for business by running
mammoth excursion from the cities o
the immediate East
Busy as IL was. the city took tim
to celebrate fittingly the event whicl
linked II tc the outer world. By proc
lamation Mayor Cartwright declared |
holiday There were lavish display
OF bunting an impromptu trades pa
rade. speeches from the plaza band
stand. free lunches and free liquor
a day OF boisterous. hilarious triumph
ings, with, incidentally. much buying
and selling ard many transfers OF the
precious front foot" or choice cor
ner"
Yielding to pressure, which was nc
less imperative from below than from
above, Br0uillard had consented 10
suspend work On the great dam during
the day OF thumphs, and the recla-
nation service force, smaller now than
at any time since the beginning OF the
undertaking. went to swell the crowds
on Chigringo avenue. Mr.. Cartwright
had been memorable. and Brouillard
found himself discomfortingly empha-
sized as chairman OF the civic recep-
ton committee.
II was after his part OF the speech
xfht1 nIava prGVyH 10
were still Believing their approval Of
the modest forensic effort, that he
went 10 sit beside Miss Cartwright In
the temporary grand stand hopping
his face and otherwise exhibiting the
after effects Of the unfamiliar strain.
81 didn't know you could be so con.
yincing," was Miss Genevieves COM
ment. 1T was splendid! Nobody will
ever believe that you are going to go
On building your dam and threatening
TO drown US, after this"
What did ! say?" queried Brouil-
lard having, at the moment, only the
haziest possible idea of what he had
said
AS II you didn't know!" she
laughed you congratulated every
body And the funny thing about il is
that you didn't say single word about
the Niqucia dam"
Didn't /? That shows how com
pletely your father has converted me.
how helplessly | am carried along on
the torrent Of events"
= But you are net she said accus
ingly Deep down in your inner con-
sciousness you don't believe little bit
in Mirapclis. You are only playing the
game with the rest of us, Mr.. Brouil-
lard"
3 German, Mr. Cortwright's ablest
trumpeter In the real-estate booming.
was holding the plaza crowd spell
bound with prophetic outlining of the
Mirapolitan future
In the middle distance and hack
grounding the buildings on the oppo-
site side Of the plaza. rose the false
work of the great dana standing for
est Of sawed timbers. whose afternoon
shadows we're already pointing like a
many-fngered fate toward the city Of
the plain But, though the face OF the
speaker was toward the shadowing for
est, his words ignored il. THE snow
capped Timaycnis," the mighty Chi
gringo." and the golden-veined slopes
of Jacks mountain" all came in fer eu-
logistic mention: but the massive wall
OF concrete, with its bristling parapet |
OF timbers, had no part in the orators
famboyant descriptive.
Brouillard loved Amy Massingale |
with passion which. however blind it |
moralities. was still keen.sighted /
enough 20 assure him that every /
plunge he made in the Metropolitan
whirlpool was sweeping him farther
away from her
He had transferred the power com /
pany's stock, minus single share to
cover his official standing on the I
power company's board, to Cartwright,
and had opened an account at the Nj
quota National The ninety.nine thou
sand nine hundred dollars had since |
grown by speculative accretions to the /
rounded eighth Of a million which all
fnanciers agree in calling the stepping !
stone to fortune.
He had regarded this money-was
still regarding it-as loan his lever /
with which to pry cut something which
he could really call his own. But more /
and more possession and use were dull /
ing the keen edge of accountability |
and there were moments Of insight /
when the grim irony of taking the .
price OF honor to pay an honor debt |
forced Itself upon him. At such mo
ments he plunged more recklessly, in
one of them taking stock in gold |
dredge company which was to wash |
nuggets by the wholesale out of the
Quadjenai bend, in another buying yet
other options in the newest suburb OF
Mirapolis.
With the waning of the day of cele-
brations the temper of the street
throngs was changing. 1t is only the
people of the Latinized cities who can