Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-16

end OF the world to the other.
ITS load l wouldn't want to have |
on my conscience" said Colonel Hing
worth.
'"The ruin of q great establishment |
like the Martlet," added Doctor Sew
erence.
'The dishonor to American engineer
ing" said Curtiss.
"And the awful loss of life," con-
tinued the colonel.
81 assume them ALL" protested the
young man, forcing his lips to speak,
although the cumulative burdens set
forth so clearly and so mercilessly babe
fair to crush him.
ut was only q mistake" protested
Helen Illingworth, drawing closer to
her lovers side, and with difficulty re-
sisting a temptation to clasp him in
her arms.
"a mistake! !" exclaimed her father
bitterly.
You said yourself" urged the wom-
an, turning to the chief engineer, "that
you didn't know whether the designs
would work out, that nobody could
know, but you were convinced that
they would"
wait" interrupted the father.
Meade, there is one consequence you
have got to bear that you haven't
thought Of"
"What do you mean?"
"DO you think I'd let my daughter
marry man who had ruined me, an
incompetent engineer by his own con-
fessiOn. "a"
at is just" said Meade. 81 have
nothing further to do here, gentlemen.
l must go to my father"
"Just or not" cried Helen Hing
worths II can't allow you to dispose of
me in that way, father. If he is as
blamable as he says he is, and as you
say he is, now is the time above all
others for the woman who loves him to
stand by him."
Miss Illingworth, you don't know
what you are saying said Meade,
forcing himself into a cold formality
he did not feel. 81 am disgraced,
shamed. There is nothing in life for
me. My chosen professionally repu-
tation-everything is gone"
''The more Speed you have for me,
then"
"Tt is noble of you. 1 shall love you
forever, but"
He turned resolutely away and
walked doggedly out of the room. Hell
en- Illingworth made step to follow
him.
Helen" interposed her father
catching her almost roughly by the
arm in his anger and resentment, "if
you go out Of this door after that man.
I'll never speak to you again."
Father, I love you. I'm sorry fol
you. 1 would do anything for you but
this. You have your friends. That
man yonder has nothing, nothing but
me. 1 must go to him"
She turned and went out of the
room without backward look or an
other word, no one OBTAINING her. Now
it happened that by hurrying down the
hill in the station wagon, Meade hat
just caught local train, which made
connections with the Reading expires;
some twenty miles away, and Heller
IllingwOrth in her car reached the sta
ton platform just in time to see it de
part. She remembered that ten mile!
across the country another railroad
ran and if she drove hard she coulC
possibly catch a train which woulC
land her in Jersey City a few minutes
before the train her lover caught Sh,
told the chauffeur, who scented a TO
nance and drove as he had neve
driven before.
The girl caught the express and rod
to the Hudson terminal in the city
The newSbOys on the street were al
ready crying the loss of the bridge
She saw the story displayed in luri,
, red headlines as she .sprang into tn
taxi and bade the chauffeur hurry he
to the Uplift building downtown. TIL
: bill she handed him in advance mad
him recklessly break the speed limit
: Bertram Meade, Sr., had not left tn
Office during the whole long Afternoon
! He sat alone, quietly waiting for tn
, end. AS to the drowning life unroll
: in rapid review, so pictures of the pas
? took form and shape in his mind. Fl
= recalled many failures. No success i
uninterrupted and unbroken. 1t j
: through constant laundering that W
: arrive. He had learned to achieve b
= failing, as everybody else learns. BJ
= failures and mistakes, which were pal
= donable in the beginning of his caree
: could not be cOndOned now; thos
: should have taught him. He realize
. too late that his later achievement ha
-, begot in him a kind of conviction {
:. Omniscience, belief in his own infall
bility, bad for Il man. His pride ha
= gone before, hard upon approached tn
= fall. He had been so sure of himse
- that even when the possibility that /
= might be mistaken had been pointe
= out and even argued, he had laughed
y to scorn. His sons arguments he ha
\ held lightly on account of his yout
J. and comparative inexperience-to h
a sorrow he realized it, too late.
Il Again came that strange feeling
n pride, the only thing which could
d any way alleviate his misery or lightt
his despair. 1t was his own son wi
d had pointed out the possible defeo
,e Youth more often than not disregart
o. the counsel of age In this case a;
r had made light of the warnings
e. youth. 1t was a strange reversal, !
,e thought, grimly recognizing touch
SardOnic and terrible humor in the s.
uatiOn.
'Whom the gods destroy they fir
make mad" Well, he had been m,
enough. If he had only listened to Il
It boy. And now there was nothing
1t. | could do h1+ Voc tho IL,