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Twenty long years had passed since David and Frances Cable took their hasty departure--virtually fleeing fro in that thriving Western city--Denver Then, the griine was on Cable's hands and deep beneath his skin; the roar of iron and steel and the rush of as ever in his ears; the quest of danger in his eye; but there was love, pride and a new ambition in his heart Now, in 1898, David Cable's hands hite and strong; the griiven way to the silk tile of the nate; and the shovel was a e of pluck and luck Many another one from the bottom to the top with the speed and security of the elevator car in the lofty "sky-scrapers" In the heartless revolution of a few years, he became the successor of his Western benefactor The turn that had been kind to him, was unkind to his friend and predecessor; the path that led upward for David Cable, ran the other way for the train-reasy overalls and the close-fitting cap of an engineer One night Cable read the news of the wreck with all the joy gone from his heart

From the cheap, squalid section of town known as "railroad end," Cable's rising influence carried him to the well-earned luxury The lines of care and toil mellowed in the face of his pretty wife, as the years rolled by; her coure shed the cheap raie of prosperity Trouble, resentic, sers She went upward much faster than her husband, for her aed to shine socially--he loathed the thought of it But Cable was proud of his wife He enjoyed the transition that lifted her up with steady strength to the plane which fitted her best--as he regarded it She had stuck by hihted hiive her the pleasures

Frances Cable was proud; but she had not been too proud to stand beside thestrength to work in unison with his Together, facing the task, cheerfully, they had battled and won

There were days when it was hard to sn of hope The rough, hard, days in the Far West culer of the great railroad systeo Attaining this high place two years prior to the opening of this narrative, he was regarded now as one of the brainiest railroad