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Fesdy efyiaG ths ifsss uf the bridge.
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Bertram ainade, Sr.. i3ad not left the
Office during the whole tong afternoon
Tie sat alone. quietly waiting for the
end. As to The drowning life unralls
iu rapid review, SO pictures Of the past
took form and shape la his mind. He
recalled many failures, No success Es
uninterrupted and unbroken. II II
through constant laundering that we
arrive. He had learned to achieve by
railing, as everybody else learns. But
failures and mistakes. which were mar
dohal'le In the beginning of his career.
could not be condoaed now; those
should have taught him. He realized
too late that his iasnr achievement had
begot Ia him a kind of conviction of
Il belief ia his own infaIl-
bility, bad for q man. His pride had
gone before, hard upon approached the
rail-. lie had been so sure OF himself
that even when the possibility that he
might be mistaken had been pointed
out and even argued. he had laughed II
to scorn. His sons arguments he had
held lightly on account of his youth
and comparative inexperience-to his
sorrow he realized 1t. too late.
Again came that strange feeling of
pride. the only thing which could in
any way alleviate his misery or tighten
MS despair. 1t was his own son who
had pointed out the possible defect
euth more often than not dlsregnrds
the counsel of age. In this case age
mad made light of the warnings of
youth, Ii was strange reversal he |
thought, grimfy recognizing a touch of
sardonic nnd terrible hunaor in the sit-
uation.
Whom the gods destroy they first
make mad" Well. he had been mad
enough. II he had only listened TO the
boy. And now there wns nothing he |
could do but walt Yes, as the long
hours pissed and the sun declined and
the evening approached, there sudden |
~ flushed upon him that there was still
something he could 90, He had ex- |
perienced some strange physical SEMI
saftens during that afternoon, unease |
In his breast, some sharp pains ahout |
his heart. He forgot them for the mo-
ment In the idea that had come to him.
When the bridge fell he would avow |
the whole responsibility, take all the
blame. Fortunately for his plans. his |
son had reduced to writing his views
on the compression members. which |
had almost taken the form of protest |
and this letter had been handed TO |
his father. His first mind had been to |
tear 1t up after he had read it and
had overhorne the objections contained
therein. but on second thought he had |
carefully filed 1t away with the origf-
nal drawings. 1t was, of course. in the |
Younger Meade's own handwriting.
He Went to his private safe. opened |
the drawings and found the letter at-
tached to the sheet of drawings. He
put back the other drawings and |
closed the safe without locking It.
Then he Went back tie. the desk and
the document. He had been
blind. mad. He laid the paper down
on his desk and Hut his hand to his
heart.
OF course he would submit those pa-
pers to the public at once. Was there
anything else he could do? Yes. He
sat down at the desk and drew d sheet
Of paper before him and began to
write. Slowly. trembllngly, he perse-