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V.-. Jr f mu r >v ii: : ■>- PAGE TWO ■-* -.. 1 _ ^ ' /■- rfiM "y>. -~4» / H Hrr A- JJs~ TJ : T - -.L.v .—a V. /' AND SON :■ -f . Copyright by Fleming H. Rivell Co. Ci-i- .J-., fi YOUNG MEADE MAKERS A DISCOVERY, WHICH TERRIFIES - KIM AND HI fRIESfo -- The M;irt I• • t > 'uii-Hrirt inn emupuny is put .up a. groat' bi't-er- ’ i a mi I bridg..- pJanH'ifl Tty Bj-rlriimhMeaih*, Sr.,' a TTiiimus--viigine»T. * nalm His sun. I’.fi 11 .tin Mi avli-,’ Jr.. r*-sb.b‘iir i-ngim-er at th brhjge,is in- lo\<* will I IT < I < II 111 i IlgWofM f|,. < IM liuili »*r of • ( ’uhill.-l III jirg-w. il*l li pres" ill-ni i-l (It*- ‘ h-ihh timi o.rmtntn-rrnml they Will liinrrv i.-j-N-pjitt its fh<* bridge i . * * i ■ 11» * ■ i * -. Th»*.jrf*.jing' engineer questioned liis father's Judg- n' ill nii ili'- sij'< ir.riti i**-rfjitn iriip.ii'l-unt gied.-i--;, hut- was hiughrd ai. Ills il'.ulits iii’iv rifled. Iniw i'V< u**d Iir-fiinKi'S 4b*q»« -rate Vft'i»rn up i.'ijU.' i niyfiuu. ii-nring..great loss utfiifi 4 thkig which to Abbott scented, nseleS anybody? Hm^ fur uway'8* they?’ 1 Twj-nty miM ! jTh(^e}s np telephone? ^Nw. listen. Johnson, titiiL.N what you. tirost flo. G.-t a‘ eur. i iTiw strongest and rent ffn fastest you can ijent a-nd the 1>,oLde*t --**=■ -■-*’*^-r n’tid a chuplr j.tfHie^i <m ibbott. seenled, nselei.8 ., and the. fact ihajt subsequent events had more Often than and unnecessary 'nut. proved Meade's suggestions to In* \\ort h" -together.- tin; . heat. maud tuwtird -liis Mtuiiircolleague. Abt>'ott r ti*-vcr forgot Unit M**ade had really no -'official «*» *n- in-ction with J he buildingYffThe bridge, arid r 11n't be was ojify Itliprti as .a special LlSffih-srjitiiltve of ~ 1 jjs falfier. a lid al] Ullmgh lie eoiild • not help-liking fl)*^ T-yKlinger,nian, Abbott would have-been V if be bad }>l-e.h ■left. CHAPTEFt jy—Continued. why. I In*, correspuhdjhg'. member 1 in '' 3— ‘ -— j * be briler .tHIS.A -Is prr.fcr! I v St might Hilt' M*-a«b- v'\.i*s <nii "l tli'^-trmise. It * ‘‘Abbott, l,dr ,bid's" sak<-, lo-ar tin-." was -summer and .the MiivJui*! -Huj.,. l.ttfcL -pleai tin- Jour I ihulii* of tin- high 111 t i t tale , bn* k III st'jll "lingered, lb gahile its’airiness 'it tin- Koi k of < dbi altar, and it looked I htisiticsA.* I tell you [Van jack It back, even more substantial it possible^ as That member’s big enough and'Strong enough ,’to lioljl t^i the'w (*rlyl4 / *- better pleased aioipv -~ „* - ■ . • ] .Meiide bad not gone about 1 It in the l ight jvgy t«* move-a man of Abbott's t.a111lerurm-ni", lie realized that as he day iiwake <m the VdeejW spi eijing to '• tnrteh-r-ami put po monym n .u;e him rose tlie gi--j on'llTe bri-lge. Stop work until \vecab lruetnrr'Til tlie bridg*'. For nil get wtu’d tiV—->»«* . 'I as substantial as | ,>'ew York. Abbott was a limn- who c'hid not he driven* He was a ire greatest of rivers and to bring nation into touch wlthdnation. u*> Vnid hortjea. too, r and send up Hu. thut' place \vlierev.er- they mV, and tell Col*uiel 1 llingwortli Iliat he niust telephone me /tnd~eome fi* Jikj'office at r bnji , e. There are it>li»'‘i , r;inis.fkere .that hreuo life• or ,i * ■* *<. - *. . , . death tind the |safety- ol^ the .liridge. You uihlyrstiind? Hood. He stty.s he'll do It, father. We've "done alt we can," he added. He liung,'up the re ceiver. sprang to his feet, looki-d 1 at his watch, ‘‘ft’s so important that TH go do"Vi there myself. I can eatyli 'tin- two o’clock train, and that will get .me there -in two hours.' You stay quietly here 1n the~ offuV r nnd wait unlil I get lie ‘ought to do soyiethlng, hut whut whs there to l J n ™2d£. wounj eiear. But on ThO'Insfnnt air ne l.wfint to know'where I can reach you eould.tidnk Of w-as*the iYnpen*lin-g ~ 1 ' 1,| "• ■-'• -JJ- .. The Tqllft building, in winch In-had . T1] s ',ay right here, njy boy. .Ho. Ills offi<-« 5 s, was mainly deserted on n ,v Valid God bless vou’’ e..- eomitjtf tip- 'tioliday. The banks werat.] ^; usua! \ v , 1( . n lrr Hrif: rrut hflrry closed and the olliccs aii*l Hipst of tls- (p.;',’ simps and stores.-- lit was very Mill in tin- hall and. therefore, he -heard li-s yic^-iq-esident. and Guytis»s T the chief engineer: 1 . . .-fMeaSe,' Vi' , hurst out, witlt^TMiidck n<yl to his daughter. Colonel llifTigAyoFtli hud not stopped to liunt f«>r :i wiTysjde- tele- >ii(■.■- ’t'hre—jititoinobiIw driven L Idly; recklessly through-)he liills and ovt ^ the r.ough rwads. hn«l brougb| hlm dl- y^ rectly to Hie'ollice Jn the shortest pos- sifiletime. ’ V. ■ “'fTiere ,1s a’ deflection one inch AUd thr«*e-quarterS deep In one-.of the com- ^ presshm" members. 0-10-R." was the prompt a^rt Terrible answer. Colonel IlllngwiVrth had not been prescient of the Martlet Bridge coin* pithy-for so long without learning some- rthfhg of practical, construction. He was , easily enough of an engineer to 'realize' Instahtly what that statement i . no-anb When did you discoVer lt? w snapped out. • »•" - — "Last night.’ v- |be door of tin- single .elevator til i**e 4>pV-ii xy'ilb an utntstfnrt-era-h then flic sound.of i.^4d-along ifi<- 'corridor as of someone Running ‘Tlivy stojipr-d before tlu- outer door ot staidly he suspected a messenger ot i-.-f *4-,Y .a :t »*' ‘I >011 t 1 talk to file, boy. >1,know (fiy tlie imiii. seizing a l:mi*-tii nml. .t/»r-’ getting bis * w«-aktiess, rTTti dow n be-’ heath Ho- overarching sti-t-4 to tin* pier head., efimbrd up tu Hit- shoo, and crawled <> 111 t.m tin- Hover chord as rap idly as In- could. " ~ . ", Mead t Ik cane m-ftlcil but oife glance to see deflection "from tin- right line +11 ~Ji>r jacks and said rather grudgingly, - The important member..* "irtr mfr T«7r*Tf. w^TntM>W«n 'l« tlie years-of Inexperience hi* was a better trained i ngim er than rough and ready Abl»ott. Wliat appeared- to-.The--latter as a slight dolb-ction. Mcatle saw,In fts true relation. There was a variation. In tin* center of t.fie Tncn 11 icr Vif an inch and a-half nbioust,. allbough Uu-_ ~ . f m ■ noticeable to an untrained eye. It had all come ia tlie last week.. They -had exfi-nd»sl the susjiemled sp:rn far. ont beyond tin- edge of the cantilever and. with tin* heavy traveler at the (ThJF the downward pressure on the great lower chord members bad greatly in creased. * . It was a terribly heavy 1 bridge at best. It bad to be to sustain so long a span, the longest in tin- world. And the load, goings to jack <ked, and for t be "Wt'iMjt ,-TU-e you against V’’’ Meade asi lirs‘i tiiac a liltAbbotl s contempt appeared in thjvyoilHt'er nutn’sVoji^. .Abbott ridbyted that tJii-re was initli- upoii. But the news bail come to MqiiiK- wi111 stu-h suddenness. .Afbbott bad only ■'••;i>ually nn-ntimied It at the close of.a ing tiiinyen^umi, to serve as,h;..SUliporL. ,| t .|,1 v —enTiversllfton ri -*:irdlng“ thi younger and junior engineer: .- “Well, I call book on to the opposije truss and pull It buck with.; turn. tninklesA*— . S T7‘ fnr» wait, M0k,ve got to hurry It> along. i-ontinuous and Increasing, had brouglit about thlkrgo tiie lavmaii trilling, fir Jibe engineer mighty, bend. If It bent that w'ay under that much of a t load, what would it Tto when.the whole great span was' completed and It had to'carry its transitory loads of traffic beside? ‘ ' u When two different views meet It is natural that iige, experience: Teputa^’ - - tt«m hnd attlborlt.v slnill carry- the fitly. -Although Bertram Meade, Jr.,' hall , V! pn^‘r been persuaded in all particu lars of tlut^ soundness of Ti-i.-v Taj her’s design, >i in I could not be persuaded, that Vast experience, that great repu tation, that undoubted ability with its long record of brilliant achievement .had at last silenced him.^Hc-Juid ac cepted through loyalty that wliicli TrfcsV - could not accept in argument. Oncof nCCepTed, he acted accontTfigty, beart- . f ily seconding and-carrying out the -'wishes of tbe-obler ii ml. as the world would say, tin- abler tiiuu. * The thing that smote the engineer In-. 1-on hi .not take liis own'mediciiie. If .Meaije had received the announcement more quietly and if lip bad by -oho ubtle suggestion-i»ut tin* idea otHrhvrr- ger into Abbott's uiim) all would have beet) well, for Avln-n lu-' -wos not blind- by lu-ojudico, 4,f pis aut hority-oy his ability quest Hayed, Abbott yras a sen W I 1 1 > 1*1 V tllAH bl..< t . t . . 1- -..1.1 ■sil.'H<niirn thoroughly’to be depended piridge? messenger disaster. -The door wits opened,, the of liee was crossed. K hand wais oil tin vrjjfm'r-rfoor. .'y+fr^rrmc i*a rk"atmiisf’ ns pjie. dead will ting-tire \liock-, the blow “Tiitlier.’— exelaiHied the newcomer “Vou got-my U'legrafn?" ;‘s_The other silently exhibited the crumpled paper imfusTiaiid. - '. “What have you ifono?’”'-’. - • -“It’s a - h«*lHhiy. rhV’.t you know? I (inly got it a few moments'hgo. The • - w e.re, unexpected delays mid The clock oil tby tower above,the' big smic- _iin al shop was striking TiW-wln-n ^ rickety station wag»m; drawn by ..an ex Ji iitcled boi’se. which* had been drivep Hrprs!elriiigly, drew up before the"olfiei- - (i-oor: I-'lingrng the money irl tin*'driver, * ' ^Ici-dc sprang" dowm from jus sea ‘'dashed up tin- steps.* Ife threw open thedoor end confronted Johnson. Is flic brhlgc p^in <> ? ,, T Not yet*, Wby»dhlir t y«tr let ua know ?-’ iwn nu-lhe mld- "I'id you gotTiini?” In- cried* 1! i^nT' |ier>i yet. ■ I sent an lintb- aml two -nnai. on horseback 'Still stands.”. 'But for bow- h.aig?" . , . ‘I cmi't say. "Tin- ^lartlct'^ resi nnd'i le al id—" . The next minute'-the faint note-of . ari>automohile lyorh sounded far down the valley. v __ v; . “I hope to, God that is lie," cried tlig .young engiiH-or, 1 running To -the win- j- vj • •• ;\ . • • v *, , 1 - * - - "That's the car A sent," said .John'- % '-- 'I “ ' « , 1 son. peering over his shoulder. "And Jhexe are people in it. It’s coming this Ttd+nsnnf'—tmitl—Meade, ^ymr progress of the work as if it vvere a matter of-.ii4> special moment, that the sudden shock had thrown Meade off Ids balance. - Therefore Jiir eulild see nothing, but ... . , danger and the*Necessity /or action. LL'ibLJVIII, tllllnage file other t^iss; ..pj, engineer tsmad. I begged-, threatened, acted wolf in this crisis and I will see implored. 1 tried to get him to -,. that the Bridge-couijamy remembers; -woik. to .take Gic niicn off the bridge. . 1 T Wi witlidryw the traveler, but lie wont j “Would ,yon niind telling yie what do It. Sabi you. designed it, you knew/ | - 1 | Hl nmt ter is. Mr. Mends*?” X_was only a cub. H •, - | ‘But the.ciuiiberr' J -f 'Matter! Tin* International— ... i _ L -„ . &M -... ■ 1--ow fig should haiidb* his superior..ot Abbott, Mejidit - retortsnr r a t)l(1 r the bridge’s superior, wak the V r;. ll H‘ V Tpt^nnifrnrwJaji.d. Aside from bis 1 bon- 11| Think up sojne other 1 ;‘lle said^TlTjac*fesiSrnmli-in ~L. L , v . Helen Illingworth, smiling in dellglHJs Like every other engineer who sees a . . .. , .. 1 . . , . ;■ rr . . —rr—— surprise, sttH»{»ed fhnmgh othe open |,ig filing Htm If liWilAs Fa Kim n u 1 -■ 11 ^ ..... ... ms ,,p some oiner nat ifral ..pflde In his. father afid In the* ________ 01 in. ic other H If It failed, unless he could get house last night and failed. I'Wired g before him it looks, to him as . ’. . . . - , . ... ,, , , , v , door and stood-ekpcctant with o.it- jld last forever. I tried to get , . . . , . _ . x . . , stretchs'd hands, tin* telephone here and at —-.-y-r~r—: ~z,:ztz~—yrr: if it would you on the telephone the men Withdrawn, there was the csimplis-ajioii -of ^ig. .engagement to Helen Illingworth'. Meath-,could not close his eyes, he could nop sleep a moment on the train. His mind whs In u turmoil! Trayers that hnwould gHLto his father and the bridge people^in tlnhvjn stop work nnd | prevent* loss of life, seb^mes for taking _up the-deflection, strengtho^ng the member, and completing thp^hrldge, and fearsThat he would lose thewvoin- att, stayed with him through the night. jmi. Then I jumped on theTmidnight exjiress-and—” ' “What is to be done?” asked the old man. • . Meade, Sr., was thankful that the younger man had not said, “i told ytfu so,” as well he might. ' But really his father’s condition was so-pitiful that the son hud not the heart. “Telegraph the Martlet Bridge com- jumy at once,” he answered, "x ‘ Into the Room Rurst Colonel lllinflton: “WhaPshall wx* say?” asked thlbpld man, uncertainly; - .• CHAPTER V. The young man shot a quick look~«t him, that question evidenced the vie Youngdohnson was fis.-dis^rdet as he was prompt and’ ready. IK 1 \Vntked-P* the window out of which he star|ed, vvitli his back ostentatiously turned ward Tliein. After a quick, glance tin* other^ninu. Mvude swept the^ to his hekrt liiul held her tlufre a 4 ment. He did not kis^i her |»efore] released her.\ The woman’s passionate look at him was caress enough and his own adoring- glance fairly enveloped her w;ith emotion. Johnson coughed and turned as the two separated.' It was the womali who recovered' her poise quicker. night train. It is a holiday in New York «si 4 w ell as here. I. jufct happened t° meet fath.-r Hi the office. He sent a telegram to>you and pot. hearing, from you, duplicated it an hour later. I tried half a dc7-en times'-to get you on the telephone and finally, by ti happy chahee. got'hold of young-Johnsou.'' /“Where are your father’s tele grams?” * “Here.” . ' , - . Colopel Illingworth tore the first open with trembling fingers.. “Why dldh't you tell Abbott?" asked the chief engineer,___—, m ‘You- know Abbott. * H^t said the —* . . - ; bridge would stand until the world \\hat were you saying about our The[ Death Message. Lefafo of the t .w- r. 1 . ,,, .-lived In. Said, he could jack the menu f<1 i^dge when I cable into th*_rom\ into I^-WoffiTTrTf do i ^ Meade,--^r..' was Tin old nmn. ' Al though unlike Moses his_eye was <Um and Ids natural force abated,' c tfie evj- oUL hrokeu, helpless, dependent, at I. 8 * 10 «^d Meade fully understood last, ... y ■ "Give me the blank,”, he answered, “I’ll w ire in \^>ur name.” the slight but unmistakable emphasis in the pronoun—otrr bridge, indeed^—“I was lying down this, afternoon, but ^4-when-1, awakened my maid Told-me deuc-es, of-ptiw^-Avere still-'tippnTgny ,H<rr^imted~-fftr : TeTegrath ffintTTc" v-T ^ * uut,u ^ ituiutplnllv frt niwnrrnnt Thorn rnon Jififl cant tn.hifi f.uthar nntl tulrlad thaca ^ ^Hlt Jf)llT III Ofllls f()T except on direct orders from “Tour father wir.-s *puy» more weight on the bridge.’ lYnat shall do?” Interposed Golyriel Illingworth. Especially to fhe observant. There rose the broad brow of the thinker. His power of Intense concentration was ex- pressed outwardly Jry- a directness of gtiTi- from the old eyes which, though faded, could tlasli on occasion. Other’ facial clmrnctcristies of that snow- ♦had sent to his father ,ahd added these words as he signed the old man’s same to it \. --—C- Put no more load on th® bridge. With draw men and traveler. —: 5- ‘I can’t upderstiind why we don't hear,” said the young engineer' tw;o she ran on, realizing,that some trouble portended *und~ seeking. U» her lover by giving him time, “I- knew something must be wrong, so I came here. I didn’t expect to see’you. Oh, what Is li?” she broke'off, suddenly TeTegFa pTT AbM* 11 atXTnccT “If til.- bAhfc gocs it m\'aris ruin to the conmauv.'' sa^d the agitated vice president, who wif?r the financiaf mi-in-. realizing from'the mental strain fn her “les, but if it goes wlpv the .men o crowneiL.leonine WL-which waling up and down the rrom thnl imn.'tniiHvC nmmr u-ltlinul which room to his liirltnti.m “Two tplCi-rnmsj IbVefS fRCC, which th(* Suddetl Slgllt of ... . hereof the firm and w ho could easijy be mrdonud for a natural Hxaggi-ration under the H-rrllde circumstances. s wljj> 1 Stopped, Feeling Suddenly Ml. There’s going to-be no oeTialty against hardest was that this weakness wa f s ns on account -of me,,I \Voift stop work exactly "'bat b<- had foc. s.-ep jiml a iniiiutc,” be (*'xpl:iAied patroiuzingly.- pointed out. It was the possibility 'of^. “There'Vi|I be a higger, penalty‘ if the lmih>lity of this, great-! member to .you don’t do what J. say. .and paid in carry flu- slress t hut young Meade bad another way, in blood; And It will ttry deduced by u^iuu' tin* formula ►"f your fault.” SclimidMTusiuutz. It w as this point, J 1 ' Now both men w\*re tingry’ urtd iiik mid this point particularly, thji,t he j their passion they*" confronted *Wch res..Into-and tierce than that \ ■ . ilh his J:itIit*r aiul oth^T^-iuoro. * .v bad .Iwelt upon which they hltd argm-d to a finish. So over strongly luid lie h.-eir impressed witlij ‘i!f>ok here." siiid .Al*hfdt...1iis-jiory the posvHrlo- st ruc.i uriil- weaTHToss of 7 ; tciiipef^uddeiily . brEhkMtfvfr® bis this m.-mhcr that In- had put himself .control; “wITo arc- you anyway? .You’re* ; on record in writing to liis father. The <m jy a kid engineer. Your futhef tip- old man, had overborn.• him :|mj now | proyed of the plan of this “bridge. I the little ctiivo. one and a halt to one guess we can affo’p.i to bank' on liis " 'hrc- iiuarter in.-.lies in sixty Teet, reputation rather than yotirs.” • she’d th.- ac-uracy of liis nil “Well, lie doesn’t know of this” loaded .-ontentuui. Vainly , mm- he ! -“Nobody is nifthe bridge noit, : and \vi s.heds|m hud_JMU-rh-t the old ha bit of : nobfidy' l.s.gotnjf; f< *' hi* otl there until ailectioti ciid^ tin- lit'hf toqch of awe tomorrow., tuorning, Wire him if you- wirh which he ycgardeil bfs father p.-r- like., lie’ll wire -Iljiiigworth down at suade him agahist his reason. ^ Martlet and we’ll |get word \vhnt to lb- stopped. fe<'ling“sud(h*jdy ill. as ! do.’V h ' — 7 a. very' nervous hi feel under the' sud.i"il^»ml unXypected I tlie' hr1ild» >f »Pdj1 sh'i.i^ |h- was w.-ak*vpill—, “Nji^-until tomorrow innfnitig," said from the.tmisilitis. lie leaned againsNAbbott-decisively, TI ItI'^U ln-ar from the v ih;«*t>'i|a 1 at - the, i-ml el ( HMt, sofYK^fjiotly-\<if Miirtlet ,toamrrotvgmorn* s l r 1 ’nay 1 “V.uj won’t put tinv 'tiien ,-H work .im that i magi noli y<* power without which a -great engineer could not .be in spite of all his scientific’ exactitudes, had not been cut out'or bis e.niateimncwJEjy the priming -knife of tinier/ ILe was a great engineer and looked ife, sitting alone in. his office with the telegram, crushed in liis tcemblWig hand-, jlcspitf-The fact that his gray, 441'ee^aS the very picture 'of unwonted TvV-akness.j of biipotency, and abiding hotTor. The iiiessuge-hnYl struck hirna Terrifie Now.. He ,laid reeled-'under it and,had sunjf down in the chair in a state of nervous collapse. • * " The telegram fmrl>~ burned the clammy palm of liis liaml. lit- would fain hav,e dropped it yet he.could Tiot; Slowly heopt-'ned it once imViav" Ordi narily. powerful glasses stimulated hi* yisloti. He nt*t‘ded nothing to reatK/t again. IT is doubtful whether bbmeyes' saw It or not and there wus^mit need, for-tlie message whs iTHmtai into his 1 >rain... T-. > lie read ttgainTm* mysterious words: One and HjrEe-quarter-inch camber in (Cto-K. TlierX could he no mistake. The name that w assigned to it’, w tis the name of liis sort, the young cngTRcer, room In his agitation, “Two telegrams ami now we can’t get a telephone con nection, or at least any answer after m our repeated calls.’ ■ ‘Jf’s a holitltV’ there as well as here,” said tin* older ipan. “There l t s no one in tin? ufliee at JiKirtlet-i” “I’ll try the Telephone again. Some-' one may. come in at any ftThe.” lit* sat down at the desk, and after, .live minutes of feverish aiidxexdted waiting lie finally did getrfec office of the Martlet BridgeT’cptfiptiiiy. By a happy fortune it appeared thiit -some one happened to/CfHiie-Ttdo the office juSt at4hatJtionn*nt. •, - j “ThiS/Ts Metide,” began the., ydfitag. man, “the*consulting c*ugin«*cr of tlie fefnational bridge. Well, at ten- her had diused him to^cbnceM^for a moment, that .sonn*t/dffg terribly kerb oils had happeimdr'nnd-she turned a little pqle herkelf as she asked the question, hot dreafning what the an swer vyould be. * operator?’ “Yes, sir,”, ” .“Take the. key,” said the colonel-, who, having ls*en a soldier, thought first VifTht* men. . ‘ x Johnson sat down at the table where \ sal.d the young man, step-?*^ 1 ** direct wir« run from the britlge Ing toward her and taking her hands again, “we’re in nwful trouble?" . “If it is any trouble I can share: Bert,” Tsald the girl; flashing at him a lisik which sqt his pulses hounding-—at least she' was to be depended on— “you know you can count on ine.” “I know T caftT 3tfc|exclalmed grate- .clingii im. slowly, slopped by I din, soTu^wliut .suf- | •more fiblig- t.i it_t.’--:bt.lwfo keep from fall—ingTluMvork g.\e>vo«i’- ! Abbnrt. wla. ha.I iollow.-d .more “But JPffiy father \vire;; the child of litS 'father’s did age. Tin boy, sis the ohHinan thought <»f lrim, had,, ventured to dispute his father's figures, to question hi* father's design, ilul:ilit'.'l‘hlersuuinTia4l.A'erhtTHn*htYtr w i ill ■ lil&N.va st-x pafiy and no one else.” Was the short answer with which Abbott turned“away in- fimtbty, so- that t tlie other realizetF litervICvv )i'as-Tiron . 1 v ' ' priced, st-uneWhat. amuse, iilmt than hot ii. -. ■ ‘“Abbott,", sjtiih Melnl.i fi.-rcely. as flu* erecting .-agmvm' joined him' bn the pierhead, “if you jxt am-Gi. r p.Hind of<" >|eade wasted IgioTiuore pfetis on Ab- load on t hat cantilever. I w iiliM^be iiott! '^As iUJuck^vofild hjivy* it^sorat*- answerable for tin* con^pt^s” 44biiig bad h:ilq.ened to tlie telephone ’ do you in. ;m?.v^ and tel.-gra|»h wiret+Tietwecn the-ettx ‘Tbat N dcfi«*itionji*< nearly two irVHie*-T im j ti,«. camp.' Meade dressed Idniself, deeji now ainl^e<er\ ounce-or pound of t;,>t a handcar, and was hurried -lo ThW a.l.led Weight y.»H pm" 111(011 IT-wnrnmke m*arest town on tin* railroa.Its nlatn it greater, . Its UmlT ^ a l teldgHiSn tnigl.ty soon. IfMt cdlhipses-:’ t riei.i-te g*4-‘eVm’iic«HiHir-with fixr threw up bis hands—“the a\ l^ole thing Tn.rk by tel,-phone, bid failed. Moved Wi HL pl '" # - h i' » natural impulse. InT default of ’ H _it collapses, that s true,” other means of ^wHimunieation, he Mid Ahtx>j-h.‘‘but it w en L ’ x 1 ■ H(|x*tl;*oft the -ttildnigrfrt train’ fnr-Nmv- “Yoirt-eMiuid,” said Meade^taliiug York. H£would goMlmself in person thority.. his extensive learning, his high reputation. And-now Uu^hoy wns right. Strange to say some lit tie thrill Trh pride came to the old engineer at that moment. - • - 1-lie tried to find'out/rom tele gram when it had been sent. That day, xvuv a holiday—the bitthclay of one of the worthies of Jin? repubfig—in soine of the United St a tes^. Ts’e vv"" YAsk ’ and ’Pennsylvania, among them, and onhHiy .Chance haij^he come down to.’tin* oflice that tnorning. The wire-,was dated the nlg|it fieforo.. And he recalled that the state fruin" which the bridge ran did not' observe that day as a holiday^ They would he working on- the Interna fully. “Now tell an*.” . , e International bridge Is about to fail. The cohm crime to her face again. Was that ntt? came Jlito her mind. That was seriAqs enough, of-course, but it would notNna.t/or in the long run. Jlelen realized fke awful gravity, The’ terrible seflousnes.vsof-tin* situa- tioa of course. The bridge mqant much, lolieiXivcn If in quite a different way. It was there he had slaved her from the' awful .fall, i/xyas "there that he had tohl hef that he foCed her. Tire brhlgc npany*lo the tcfegriiph office.- He TeaChfni Ills Hand out japd laid his fingerkNm tin*' key.- H<*f<»re, h«*--<*oii!<L . : give the faii}tcst } pr,-sstiT l ’e“to tin* in.sfru- . - ment, it suddguly i’licked of its own. •« motion. Kveryhbdg in the room stood silent: \ -“It Is a message from WUeblngs, the chief of constructioif foreman ! df: ,T ~ Johnson paused a moVneiit, listening to the rapid, click—“tin* Hiterirationul—” he said in an-;awestruck whisper, Ft l,ind come? “Read It. nmji! Read it; fof God’s sake 1 !” .erhkl. the chief engineer. “The-firidge Is in the river.” faltered JilhnsoH slowly, word by vyord*- trans- e-tin hitkng.the fearful message on the wire'. “Abbott gml one hundred nnd fifty men unfortunately the wrong course with an^q£tcnit to the grave afruir. .-■ Noth* Ihe older.man* — u . whalewi* ewild lui|mrUlHf~" _ “W hy, Imy, said Abbott, ‘ that hridgt* Tin-re had been , some friction, be- -cuuJ|d_Ktand with will .stand as long as emotion. Look j tw^jen Abbott and. Meade before on oc- the principal'member of •t It. That'buckle doeapT ombunt tQ; casions, not serious, but_.sevoraltlnu-.-j t-ioa r hoirj mntu h Sfli as anything, is only in’one truss any-. r like that in its compres sion cly^- tpi'neh less so v&it u strutv to snan the | might fall, but'it was ns eternal as her j affection in her t-niEmoVyv. Their on-- * gngetnent,. or tlu ir mugriuge, had been xipidoedependertt 'upon tlie successful completion oVthe 'hriilge. Whii^ of*! that? The Jirovlso incuriT~ffdthIng foj her when she looked, lift the white-face,f ’.•• told In the next ihstallnrient. ‘What happens to the Meades and Illingworths, an<L the vast trouble stirred up, makes thrill- mg chapter#;* 1 v —— 7^ AM Could Think of Was the tm- - ■ pending Ruin. \ thirty this morning I sent a telegram to “Colonel nirugw’Ortr find ah hrtur later I sent another. What's that? tional ii!^ usual Uhless— On.-jy.d lhre«.<iuarter Mwjiy| Bntutflmum «n th. dainr^ «m>u! Kl> iJllll^-ttrarwmwer nraila V nur nnm<^JchM.m-v»i, r. ine your name-*-Johnson—you’re one of the Tlerks there? Well, telephone Colonel Illingworth.'at his home— DresIdenT thErf—die. superintendent— •agonized 'irtsti to whom she hfid given herself. ' , •. “It is terrible, of course,” she said quietly. “But you can do. nothing?” -* “If I ,could, do you think J’d> let the bridge, ami you, go 1 without—’’ "I’m not going with the bridge,” was her quick and decisive interruption/ , They had both forgotten the pres ence of young johnsom who ^as not only deeldclly uheonrfortable, but des perately anxious. lie was about to speak when, * Info this already broken scene*,- came another interruption. • -There was a rush.of wheels’on the driveway outside the roar of .a inotoi: Before Meade could answer the state- rmoneT TT-~ (TO PE CONTINUKD.) Beware the 'Load^J Gun. , The man who returns froin hunting and sots his loaded gun Jn-the corner or hangs+t on the vuiTl is, In reality setting a death-trap. Yet It is surpris jug hpw often this -is done. Tlie gun we “didn’t know was loaded," is an bid, old Story, says Father’s Guide. You cannot Qe too cautious. The loaded gun y«Hl may keEp on the wall to shofct Crows With when they get In th© corn is liable to cause you more loss than a million crows can. If takes — only 4 84-i-ond to. put a cartridge in a gua Wlft-n the time ts at hand, ft lingworth. He was covered whh dust, his face was white his eyes filled with anxiety. - The charoctef of. the snm- takes no longer to tqjc<* j£ quL ‘ T whaU. He-tstiY gt hotiie? Is the vice *mons had disquieted himheyopd meas- Bloesom Remains. I’rimsonheak says hfs wife »sc t°, the grimist one.” Eg- , doesn’t setyn to wow It-,. ,