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honor he paid no further attention to hi secrets, discussed before the engineer unreservedly with Bucks,

that he looked on the constructionist of the

Mountain Division as one of his inner official fa ement There was an abstraction on his left where

Gertrude sat that was less co the time he had spent with the coh toblunder in the office With the others he

never found himself at a loss for a word or an opportunity; with

Gertrude he was apparently helpless

The talk at the lower end of the table ran for a while to co lulls Mrs Whitney across

the table asked questions calculated to draw a faave hiineer concealed no effort to see that

Gertrude Brock was served and to break down by unobtrusive courtesies

her deter was over he found hi in her coht him--the unpleasant consciousness of a

failure of his endeavors and a return of the rage he felt at hiraces Her father wanted hio over the tunnel

plans again That done, Glover resolved at all costs to escape froht