The Adair County news., 1922-06-20

kIttE Drew Her Down Beside Her.
hart, coming here with VIII Carruthers
zz4 feelIng you ought to know, and
AsG 45zI9ng 70 speak But please don't
elLsaeSs1ay word about the man you're en-
Ea2s1 10. / feel like mischief-maker.
Hut z zeve you, dear, and / like Will,
xzSd Exao Ieel he isn't to blame. That's
UhEE came to you. And I've no doubt
he's zs2nerable enough to say nothing
nj aE, zf yeu want to"
~Hzttyr' Molly sprang to her feet,
qH1sx5cang with indignation.
EZK1y rose. II don't know now that
EVesSone right" she said 81 hope you
S<0zSe come t. have any feeling against
ERRss s5sar- Only you didn't seem to un-
dseE1sxzHd-well, things. And what I'm
aaRznE hasn't anything to do with Mr..
Hnlesr. II you feel that you don't care
EsE lEm-"
Kre for that beaSt!" said Molly.
-
hkS ny day the trestling grew, and
et1eBeszSankment appeared about it un-
I'd Eks ldrst part was hidden under the
psEEzz2ent way. Thousands Of feet Of
E<EEE had gone into the building. Each
day zte engine pushed the laden bal
fssE trucks farther out upon the creak-
H8<, zRaying structure. Then the pres
ssWzs ,s8f the lever, tons of debris dis
charged through the frame of the
1ssskzszRsrk, and the engine went snort
Ssz sack toward the ballast pit, drag
z5BsE Ske empty trucks behind it.
Ezty had gone back to Clayton. She
EaSS said that she would return, but
WISE doubted it, He still cherished
E3s.s kaspe of friendship, when time had
ssSz>serated their joint memory of that
af3<Ezoon. He could not bear to lose
hRE She seemed part of Joe, and he
z58asil 1t hard TO shake his mind free
.cCazs DreeOnceptiOns. For the present,
SUSver, ne recognized that her re-
sEEzning there would prove an embar-
zzSssDent.
He sent her back to Clayton with An
EsrSen, who had proved entirely trust
vzzsEthy since the first night and was
;.SIEETg In on business for him.
&ad he had very little time to think
EigUed. Wilton slept only few hours
ESfZatIy. For five days he could not
even go to the portage. On the sixth
:zszzcess appeared at hand. The sink
-4soses had been filled in and there was
8E5r the slightest subsistence of the
=aELs6e. Andersen returned that night
and Wilton went to bed in confidence.
Chambers was as confident as he.
On the following morning, as he left
aKas shack, the workmen came running
Jszward him, jabbering and gesticulat-
zaEz- The foreman, hurrying up behind
9hRm. shouted and pointed in excite
gszDenLin the direction of the muskeg.
When Wilton reached the shore he
25ound that his worst fears had been
s1ceeded.
-TwO-thirds of the trestle-wOrk had
disappeared, including a great stretch
IF the foundation, over which the loco
s-n0t1ves and ballast trucks had passed
she day before. The subsidence was
=%Venty or eighty yards In length. The
sz0p alone remained above the treacher-
sszas swamp, and the rails hung fes-
szSened in midair.
= The. whole embankment would have
Tpe be reconstructed. AS the mere me-
adhanical process Of dumping might
zErye merely to add to the weight su-
2erimposed upon the treacherous bot
tom. Wilton determined to lay down
-oarduroJ over the sink-holes-a mat
zress Of tree-trunks The depositing OF
the ballast on this would serve to COM
xprsss the muskeg and loose rock, max
I'D q hrm foundation, and the trunks,
- they became water-logged, would
kzssxden, increasing the strength Of the
vThoie structure as time went by.