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Mrs Whitney wondered why, if Mr Glover were really a competent ineer of the syste explained that frequently Westernin ambition and preferred a free-and-easy life to

one of constant responsibility; others, again, drank--and this

suggestion opened a discussion as to whether Westernthan Eastern men, and transact business at all

While the discussion proceeded there ca that the blast would be made about seven

o'clock Preparations to start were completed as the company rose froed to join the party

Marie consented, but Gertrude had a new book and would not leave it,

and when the others started she joined her father and Judge Saltzer,

her father's counsellor, noith the more leisurely

at their own table

Bucks met the doctor and his party at the head of the cañon and took

thee across the river, where they had been brought by

Glover in thearound campfires, and in the narrow strip of eastern sky between

the walls the nal lanterns were

ballast behind the track

layers At a safe distance frohts

fro prepared, and the car-tinks froht

The blasting powder in twenty-pound cans was being passed froers Score after score of the coh