The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-21

rush with the dynamite In his hand
and the detonatOrs In his pocket. Ye
If he had only stayed back he woulC
have been safe"
"It was his anxiety for the dam ant
the people that brought him down,
said Helen Illingworth. HE can't die,
she murmured. God surely will no
let him die. love him so. And yet 1
he does and have lost him, lnnOcen
or guilty, he has redeemed his fame.
HE saved Others" quoted Rodne!
under his breath, himself he coulC
not save"
1t was a work Of great difficulty tt
get the wounded engineer into the car
but they finally managed it. By thu
woman's direction they laid him on he
bed in her own private stnteroom.
'One OF us must go for doctor a
once" said Rodney, "and that will b.
my job"
ats twenty miles to the town.
said the conductor, who had helped II
receive them. "If one of you coult
telegraph we could tap u WIRE"
None Of them could.
'Tt's all dOwn-grade and there's &
good roadbed and I was some sprinteI
In my college days." said Rodney.
"And there was never greater need
OF haste than now" said Winters. 81
wish had horse here"
Don't give up Miss Illingworth.'
continued Rodney, as he started to-
ward the door. Hes alive yet"
Just then, opportunely enough
rounding the last curve before the arch
bridge, they saw the end Of the other
car rapidly approaching them. Had
they not been so excited they could
have heard the furious putting of the
engine as it drove the car at great
speed up the heavy grade.
wait" said the conductor. I'VE can
send the engine down for the doctor.
Thatll be the colonePS car"
In few minutes the car stopped on
the siding. Out of 1t came Colonel
lllingwOrth, Doctor SeverenCe, Curtlss,
and some of the officials of the Bridge
company in town. They were all great
ly excited. The colonel did not stop to
put on his hat. He ran to the other
car and climbed aboard.
''The dams going" he shouted. "The
bridge and the town will be flooded.
We got word an hour ago by messen-
ger galloping down. The telephone
wires are down. I ran the car up here
as the quickest way to get over to the
reservoir and the dam. Some of you
who know the way come with me-"
BY this time the observation room
of the cur was filled with men.
"YOu need not worry about the dam"
said Rodney.
"What do you meanY
"a man blew up the hog-back, made
q spill-way, the water rushed out
through it into the ravine, you can
see it below there, relieving the pres
sure on the dam at once. Since it has
held up till now it will hold for good"
"Thank God" cried the colonel, sink
ing down into chair and wiping the
sweat off his brow. THE bridge will
be safe then. BY George" he gasped,
''the Martlet company could hardly
have stood another loss like that.
Who's the man who blew it up?"
"HiS name is Meade" said Rodney
quietly.
"NOt-?"
"YeS."
There was long pause. Every
man there knew of the failure of the
International and in what estimation
the old colonel held the name Of Meade
because of that.
"Well, it was fine thing" said the
colonel; ''it makes up for his blunder-
ing work on the bridge"
BEG pardon, sir" said Shurtliff, who
had stood wide-eyed and white and suf-
fering in silence ever since the engi-
neer had been brought to the car, 'it
was not his blunder."
"Why, you said so yourself" cried
the colonel,
llctp dulHllltU lUt StCEtIuTS.
Quick rs flash Rodney had his
notebook out. Here was the proof at
last.
"Why?"
"To save the reputation of the man
loved"
"And how do know you are not
lying for this man now?" asked the
colonel harShly.
"These will prove It," said Shurtliff,
extending some papers he drew out Of
his pocket, where he had placed them
that morning half intending to tell
Helen Illingworth the truth at last.
"What are these?" the colonel asked,
staring ut Shurtliff, who stood erect be-
fore them. sustained more by his will
than anything else. for his knees were
shaking and his body quivering; yet he
was glad after all, more happy than he
had thought he could be, in making the
revelation, in vindicating the innocent,
In giving that satisfaction to Helen
Illingworth, tardy, even too late, though
1t might be.
Letters, sir. You will find there a
blueprint of the design of the compress
sion members" answered Shurtliff
monOtOnOusly as if he had forced his
mind to a certain action and 1t was
working automatically. with 1t is a
letter from Bertram Meade to his fa-
ther suggesting that the lacings were
too light and calling attention to the
empiric formula of Schmidt -Chemnltz
in nrOof of his aro1Impnt On +ba