The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-21

Intimate failure the growing belief 10
ma omnlpotence of the Great YelloW
Dragon as the Cocopahs visuaiized y,
Fstrada's work was as intense as
though he were Fastening sure VIC
tory. The dauntless spirit of the elder
Estrada pushed the track over the not
sands where he must dance at times
to keep his feet from burning. Many |
Of the rails they laid at night.
orchards gone hog-wild," Hardin
told his family the next morning.
Building levee between the towns
The mans off his head"
'There isn't any dangerp Gerty's
anxiety made the deep blue eyes look
black.
lines looked up for Toms answer
His face was ugly with passion.
"Dangerl It's bluff, big show
Of activity here because he's buffa-
loed; he doesn't know how to tackle
the job out there"
1t had begun to look that way to
more than one. 1t, was talked over
at Coulter's store; in the outer Office
of the D. R. company where the engl-
neers foregathered; among the chair
filters who idled in front of the Des-
ert hotel. "The man does not know
how to tackle his job" A levee, and
the gate held upl What protection to
the towns would be that toy levee if
the river should return on one of its
spectacular sprees? A levee, and the
intake itself not guarded? He was
whispered Of as incompetent; one OF
Marshall's clerks. He was given a
short time to blow himself out. A
bookman, theorist.
"As well put sentinels a few miles
from prison and leave the jail doors
open" This was Wooster's gibe. AL
saw the Colorado as marauder a
large. "And little heap of SANE
stacked up to scare it off! It's
scream!"
Mrs. Hardin found it difficult t,
meet with diplomacy the confidence
which inevitably came her way. A
Hardin's wife she was expected to en-
JOY the universal censure the new ma,
was acquiring. Gerty's light touche.
} too slight for championship, passed a
a sweet charity. Her own positio
|, those days was trying. She did nc
yet know her diplomatic lesson.
Apparently unaware Of the tall
hlckard spent the greater part of h
time experimenting the levee. q
could trust no one else to do it. r
one unless it were Estrada, who ws
rushing his steel rails through to IL
front and was needed there.
Things We're moving under his co
slant goading. The extra pay W,
showing results. He should be at n
Heading now, he kept telling hlmse
put he was convinced that the insta
he turned his back, the work on Il
leVee would stop; and all the reaso
excellent! Some emergency would
cooked up to warrant the Withdraw
OF the hands. Chafe as he might
the situation, 1t was to be gnprri1
warfare. Not fight in the open.
knew how to meet that, but that h,
lllng resistance, the polite silence
the Office when he entered-"We
they'll be doing my way pretty so,
or my name isn't Richard. Tho
fat" ia
de was fretting to be at work
start the wheels Of the O. p. its y,
machinery toward his problem
knew that that organization, like VIZ
drilled militia, was ready for his .,
The call Jagged, not that he did
need men, but there was NO nle
ready for them. The camp. that u
: another rub. There was no camni
! was not equipped for a sudden IN
! ton of men. The inefficiencv of
projectors of this desert scheme !
never seemed so criminal as whom
had surveyed the equipment At the
: take. Get ready first; your 70,
your stoves, your beds" That was
:, training Of the good executive of =
IKE Marshall and MacLean. Moth
TO De left to chance; TO foresee ON
sencies, not to be taken by them
: aware. The reason of Hardin's doy
IAN was his slipshod habits. How 90,
ne De a good officer who had ne,
urliled as a soldier? There was
! gap at the Intake, Hardin's grotes,
! Iolly' widened from one hundred T
% ten times the original cut; widen.
every day with neither equipment
camp adequate to push through a W,
e 81 half the original magnitude. G
; uns away moreover, was the isla
: Ansaster island; it had received
q christening by the engineers, its h
!, eismal water the Colorado. The /
y MOODS had played with it as though
e were a bar of sugar. There was
q Eock at hand; no rock on the way
e rock ordered, CouId on,,o,,, 49,.