The Huttig news., 1916-06-24

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 CHAPTER II-Brouillard meets I wes- iey CortWrlght and his daughter Gene Vleye Of the auto party and explains inc reclamation work to them
 CHAPTER IfI-Cortwright sees in the project a big chance to make money "and no chance for man to get in anywhere ;, Brouillard is impervous to hints from inc hhancier who tells Genevieve the enpi- neer will come down and hook hfmseif 1T the bait is Well covered"
 CHAPTER IV-Cortwrfght organizes a company and obtains government com tracts to furnish power and material for the dam construction busy city springs up about the site. Steve Massin- saie threatens to start gold rush if Broulllard does not influence President Fofd to build railroad branch to the place, thus opening an easy market for the ore from the Little Susan" mine
 CHAPTER V-Brouillard and the com panys promoter clash. but on orders from Washington BrouillaFd turns over the plans Tor the power installation
 CHAPTER Won a visit to Amy Mas sfngale at her fathers mine Brouillara finds 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 be free he would sacri- ice anything 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 1t.
 CHAPTER VIII-Mirapolis, the city of numbered days. booms. Cartwright per suades Brouillard to become consulting engineer of the consolidated electric pow CT company in return for s1oo.e0o stock. 
 CHAPTER IX-Rumors that the govern ment will call a halt on the dam cause srislow to tell Brouillard that he is lean ing to the Cartwright side to make the city permanent. Brouilard denies 1t.
 CHAPTER X-Permanent building In Mirapolis and a real estate boom are in fuil swing when the stoppaee of work on the railroad threatens q panic. Rrouillard spreads the Massingale story of placer gold in the river bed and starts gold rush.
 CHAPTER xI-The gold rush promises to stop the reclamation project
 CHAPTER xII-Amy tells Brouillard that her father has incorporated the Lit tie Susan " and Is in Cortwright's clutches financially. He tells her he has made sl0o 000 and declares his love. Amy loves him but shows him that he has become demoralized.
 CHAPTER xIII-Massingale's placer gold find was a fraud. but a real find is made.
 CHAPTER -Brouillard sells his stock but does not pay his fathers debts Cortwright's son shoots Steve Massin- gale.
 CHAPTER XV Brouillard threatens Cartwright with exposure of bad title te Mirapolis land if he pushes Massingaie to the wall The magnate promises to give the old man free field.
 That being the case, there is no help for it; you'll have to take your medicine and pay the notes. Do that, take an iron-clad receipt from the bank I'll write 1t out for you-and get the stock released After that, we'll give them a whirl for the thirty-three and third per cent they have practically stolen from you"
 The cid mans face, remindful now of his daughters, was a picture of dis mayed incertitude.
 "I reckon you're forgettin' that I hain't got money enough to lift one edge O them notes," he said gently.
 Brouillard had found piece of blank paper in his pocket and was rapidly writing the "ircn-clad" receipt
 "No, hadn't forgotten. have some thing ever hundred thousand dollars lying idle in the bank. You'll take it and pay the notes."
 It was a bolt out of clear sky for the old man tottering on the brink of his fourth pit of disaster, and he evinced his emotion-and the tense strain of keyed-up nerves-by drop ping his lifted coffee cup with crash into his plate. The little accident was sion-and by the time the wreck was repaired speech was possible.
 Are you-are you plumb sure you can spare it?" asked the debtor husk- fly. And then: "I cayn't seem to sort O surround it-all in a bunch, that way. 1 knowed J. Wesley had me down; the 'Susan's' the only piece O real money in this whole blamed free for-all, and he knows it.
 After they had made their way through the excited sidewalk ex- changes to the bank. and Brouillard
  with the miraculously- bit of res cue paper in his hand, hesitated.
 There's one thing-and I've got to spit it out before it's everlastingly too late See here, Victor uillard-Amy likes you-thinks heap of you; a plumb blind man could see that. But say, that little girl O mine has just natchurly got to have free hand when 1t comes to pairin' up, and she won't never have if she finds out about this You ain't allowin' to use it on her, Victor?"
 Brouillard laughed.
 "Ill make a. hedging bet and break even with you. MT. Massingale," he said. That check Is drawn to my or der, and I have indorsed it. Let me have it again and I'll get the cash for you. In that way only the two of us need know anything about the trans action; and if promise to keep the secret from Miss Amy, you must prom