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SYNOPSIS. I
TAPTER I?K. C. Rickard, an englof
the Overland Pacific, is called to
office of President Marshall in TucAriz.
"Casey" is an enigma to the
? force; he wears "dude" clothes,
he had resigned a chair of engineerin
the East to go on the road as a
nan and his promotion had been speclar.
While waiting for Marshall Rlckreads
a report on the ravages of the
rado, despite the efforts of Thomas
din of the Desert Reclamation comy.
This Hardin had been a student
er Rickard and had married Gerty
mes, with whom Rickard had fancied
*as in love.
IAPTER II?Marshall tells Rickard
Overland Pacific has got to step In
ave the Imperial Valley and sends
to the break. Rickard declines bee
he does not want to supplant Harbut
is won over. "Stop the riveiy
.n the expense," saja. Marshall.
CHAPTER Til?Rickard Journeys to
Calexlco, sees the Irrigated desert an&
learns much about Hardin and his work.
CHAPTER IV?At the hotel he meets
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin and Innes Hardin,
Hardin's half sitter. Disappointed in her
husband and an incorrigible coquette,
Mrs. Hardin sets her cap for her former
lover and invites him to dinner.
CHAPTER V?Rickard visits the company's
offices and takes control. He finds
the engineers loyal to Hardin and hostile
to him. Estrada, a Mexican, son of
the "Father of the Imperial Valley," tells
him of the general situation.
CHAPTER V.
(Continued From Last Friday
"I want you to do something for
me, not at all agreeable!" His tone
implied that the boy was not given
the chance to beg off. "What time
does the train pull out in the morning?"
"Six-fifteen."
iTll have a letter for you at the
hotel at six. Be on time. I want to
catch Hardin before he leaves for Los
Angeles. If he's really going. Til give
him today to think It over. But he
cant disregard an order as he did my
Invitation. I didn't want to rub it In
before the men."
stared, then.said that he
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thought he was not likely" to !
Rickard left the office in time to
see Hardin shutting the outer gate
behind him. His exit released a chorus
of indignant voices.
"An outrage!"
"A d d shame!" This from
Wooster.
"Hardin's luck!"
On the other side of the door Rickard
deliberated. The hotel and its curious
loungers, or his new office, where
Ogilvie was making a great show of
occupation. He had not seen Estrada.
He was making a sudden dive for his
hotel when the gentle voice of the
Mexican hailed him.
"Will you come to-my car? It's on
the sidiD? right here.' We can have a
little lunch and then look over some 1
maps togetner. x nave some pictures
of the river and the gate. They may
be new to you." t <
Rickard spent the afternoon In the >
car. The twin towns did not seem so 1
hostile. He thought he might like the
Mexican. 1
Estrada was earning his father's ?
mantle. He was the superintendent 1
of the road which the Overland Pa- ^
cific was building between the twin 2
towns and the Crossing; a director of
the Desert Reclamation company, and
the head of a small subsidiary com- ]
pany which had been created to pro- 1
tect rights and keep harmonious rela- i
tion with the sister country. Rickard i
found him full of meat, and heard, for i
the first time consecutively, the story i
of the rakish river. Particularly Interesting
to him was the relation of i
Hardin to the comnanv. I J
"He has the bad luck, that manT 1
exclaimed Estrada's soft, musical
voice. "Everything is in his hands,
capital is promised, and he goes to
New York to have the papers drawn
up. The day he gets there the Maine
Is destroyed. Of course capital is shy.
He's had- the de.vi.Va. owa. luck, with
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is from Abbeville, in !
mty, adjoining lands J
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rice, $30.00 per acre. j
six miles from Abbesments,
all in wood j1
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Price, $25 per acre.
les irom Abbeville? i,
-two horse farm open j
wood, and stream
place.
Price, $2,000.00.
L miles from Abbe- ;
lendid piece of prop- >
7 timber on this place <
rice, $17.50 per Acre. j \
I miles from Abbeience
and out build- \
d and plenty wood
rice, $30.00 per acre. ]
0 miles from Abbe- \
id farm but no im- 5
,,4- rr a /?a
ut tiu ur uv inures uut- j
rice, $18.00 per acre.
ile from Hester, one
nm Falls. 15 horse
ated on the place.
I watered and has an .
i ji i /
joci ana timoer.
ice, $40.00 per acre.
ige Terms
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Sen: Gifford, honest" but mulish;
Sather, mulish and not honest?oh,
there's a string of them. Once he
vent to Hermosillo to get an option on
ny father's lands. They were already
covered by an option held by some
nen in Scotland. Another man would
lave waited for the three months to
pass. Not Hardin. He went to Scotand,
thought he'd Interest those men
fvith his maps and papers. He owned
ill the data then. He'd made the surrey."
Estrada repeated the story Brandon
ind Marshall had told, with little discrepancy.
A friendly refrain followed
:he narrative. "He has the bad luck,
:hat man!"
"And the Scotched option?" reminded
Rickard, smiling at his own poor
loke.
"It was just that. A case of Hardin
uck again. He stopped off in London
to interest some capital there; followng
up a lead developed on the steamer.
ne was never a man to neglect a
chance. Nothing came of it, though,
ind when he reached Glasgow he
found his man had died two days before?or
been killed, I've forgotten
ivhich. Three times Hardin's crossed
the ocean trying to corner the opportunity
he thought he h?d found. It
isn't laziness, Is his trouble. It's just
infernal luck."
"Or over-astuteness, or procrastination,"
criticized his listener to himself.
He knew now what it was that had
?o changed Hardin. A man cannot
travel, even though he be hounding
3own a quick scent, without meeting
strong influences. He had been thrown
tvith hard men, strong men. It was
in Inevitable chiseling, not a miracle.
"I want to hear more of this some
Jay. But this map. I don't understand
what you told me of this byaass,
Mr. Estrada.
Their heads were still bending over
Estrada's rough work bench when the
Japanese cook announced that dinner
ivas waiting In the adjoining car.
MacLean and Bodefeldt and several
poung engineers joined them.
It had been outwardly a wasted day.
Rickard had lounged, socially and
physically. But before he turned in
that night he had learned the names
and dispositions of his force, and
some of their prejudices. Nothing, he
Bummed up, could be guessed ^from the
gentleness of the Mexican's manner;
Wooster's antagonism was open and
snappish. Silent was to be watched,
and Hardin had already shown his
band.
The river, as he thought of it, appeared
the least formidable of his opponents.
He was imaging it as a highspirited
horse, maddened by the fumbling
of its would-be captors. His task
it was to lasso the proud stallion, lead
it In bridled to the sterile land. No
wonder Hardin was sore; his noose
bad slipped olf one time too manyl
Eardln's luck I
CHAPTER VI.
Red Tape.
At ten o'clock the next morning Hariln,
entering the office, again the gensral
manager's, found there before him
George MacLean, the new director, and
P#?rr?v Rnhfock. the treasurer, who had
been put in by the Overland Pacific
when the old company was reorganized.
They had jnst come in from Los
A.ngeles, the trip made in MacLean's
jrivate car, to attend a director's meetng.
Rickard entered a few minutes later,
Estrada behind him. Ogilvie followed
Rickard to his desk.
"Well?" inquired the new manager.
Ogilvie explained lengthily that he
had the minutes of the last meeting.
"Leave them here." Rickard waved
tiim toward Estrada, who held out his
hand for the papers.
Reluctantly the accountant relinquished
the papers. His retreating
roattails looked ludicrously whipped
but no one laughed. Hardin's scowl
deepened.
"Showing his power," he thought
"He's going to call for a new pack."
Estrada pushed the minutes through
with but a few unimportant interruptions.
He was sitting at the same desk
with Rickard. Hardin, sensitive and
sullen, thought he saw the meeting
managed between them.
Several times he attempted to bring
the tangled affairs of the water jompanies
before the directors. Rickard
tvould not discuss the water companies.
"Because he's not posted! He's beginning
to see what he's up against,"
:an Hardin's stormy thoughts.
He was on his feet the next minike
ivith a motion to complete the Hardin
tieadgate. Violently he declaimed to
Babcock and MacLean his wrongs, the
injustice that had been done him. Marshi.li
had let that fellow Maltland convince
him that the gate was not pracicable;
had it not been for him the
fate would be in place now; all this
ime and money saved. And the Maitnnd
rinm hnflt Inctonrl ' Whprp was
t? Where was the money, the time,
)ut In that little toy? Sickening! His
'ace purpled over the memory. Why
vas be allowed to begin again with
he gate? "Answer me that. Why
vas I allowed to begin again? It's all
;hild's play, that's what it is. And
vhen I am in it again up to my neck
le pulls me off!"
This was the real Hardin, the un:outh,
overaged Lawrence student 1
rhe new manner was just a veneer,
ilickard had been expecting it to wear
hin.
"I think," Interjected Rickard, "that
ve all agree with Mr. Marshall, Mr.
lardln, that a wooden headgate on silt
'oundatlon could never be more than
t makeshift I understood that the
irst day he visited the river with you
le had. theL idea to put the .ultimate
gate, the gate which would control tl
water supply of the valley, up at t
Crossing on rock foundation. Mr. M?
shall does not expect to finish that
time to be of first use. He hopes tl
wooden gate will solve the Immedia
problem. It was a case of any port
a storm. He has asked me to repo
my opinion."
"Why doesn't he give me a chan
to go ahead then?" growled the d
posed manager. "Instead of lettii
the intake widen until it will be an ii
possibility to confine the river the
at all?"
"So you do think that it will be !
impossiblity to complete the gate
planned?"
Hardin had run too fast "I didi
mean that," he stammered. "I me!
it will be difficult if we are delay
much longer."
(T0 be Continued Friday.)
RAILROADS NOT LAYING
OFF MEN GENERAL1
Washington, March 7.?Railros
i generally are not laying off emploj
' as a result of the failure of congr<
"o appropriate funds for the railro
administration, it was stated at t
office of Director General Hines.
few cases of dismissal of a number
men have been reported to hez
i
Wt
ITheC
is now
departr
Spring E
c.
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There
gramei
to hav
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I REAL I
city property. Th
House and Lot?In City of A
beville, about one-half m
from Court House, on Sou
Main Street, near Cott
mill. Lot about one acre
house has store 21x72 fe
and 12 rooms with all mode
conveniences; also two-roc
tenant house, warehous
stables, feed and carria;
house. $4,0i
Also the stock of genex
merchandise in the abo
store.
SUBURBAN LOTS?Am offt
ing several lots in the sout
ern section of the city of A
beville at exceptional ba
156 ACRE TRACT?Located
? miles Southeast of Abbevil
s. u. six room aweinng,
room tenant house, bar
About 2-horse farm rent*
for this year. Good botto
land, plenty ashe wood ai
timber. Price $4,40
k? quarters here, but in each case, it
ir. was stated, the reasons were local
in and related to operating conditions
he rather than to the financial predicate
ment.
in
irt Railroad administration officials |
explained that there is no intention i
ce of issuing specific instructions for-,
bidding the dismissal of employes
i nor to make any general investigation
r<? of cases in which men have been laid
off. Reginal directors, however, mya
id 1 make inquiries in any cases where it
asi :
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in I
1 FERT11
I
-Y I represent the
. j Works, of Charlesto
ids 7
| hand a gocd stock,
hard to gee a little lal
he in supplying your ne<
A
of ROBT.
]harm of
being exemplified
r
nent ot our store..,
)resses^Sprii
jring Coat St
is distinctive style
its and we will be
e you come in a
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Miss Ellis has charge of our Millinery
Department again this season.
If you wish an early Spring hat, come
in and have her fit you up.
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HHBBIHnBDHHi
STATE $
ese are good investmentsb
TWO GOOD RESIDENCES?
ile on North Main Street, for
^ sale. Ask for prices.
ACRE LOT?In Fort Pickens.
Good location. Price __$600.
oil 1 o ATDCC n milop Snnfll
k A -S* UUiVd K/VV?V.?
set of Abbeville, two tenant
m houses, barn, well; 15 acres
>m bottoms, 150,000 feet sawtimber.
Two horse farm alse,
ready rented for 1919.
ge Price per acre $25.00
00 6-ROOM RESIDENCE?On S.
"al Main St., containing 4 acres,
ve more or less. Good barn, 1
tenant house, rat proof crib,
jr_ with branch running through
^ property. Cheap at $2,100.00
ion ?fDC TDAPT WU1,
Jj. 16V /1VIV1-I ? I-? ?! Ibii gwu
,r_ residence, tenant house, barn
4 11 miles from Abbeville,
le South. 5 miles from Troy.
3. Price $3,000.00.
2 Jno. F. Su
id
0. Abbeville,
appears undesirable to decrease the
working forces.
Director Geneal Hines' statement
that he plans to continue ailroad operations
as usual to avoid disturbance
of industrial and employment conditions
have been circulate damong
railroad executives and it is the belief
at railroad administration headquarters
that his policy will be pursued.
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