Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1917, Page 7

S—_ CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY HE CHALICE OF COURAGE” SAUTHOR ef “THE ISLAND OF REGENERATION” ETC, AND CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY JR’ CIVIL ENGINEER. SYNOPSIS. CHAPPER I—Bertram Meade 1s cou- sulting engineer representing his father, the great Meade, who is the designer of the laternational bridge, Uw greatest ca: lever structure the world ever heard ef. In the shadow of the uncompleted bridge young Meade receives Colonel Hi- ingworth, president of the Martlet Bridge company, the constrictors, and the colez- el's daughter, Helen, whom be lover. CHAPTER II—At dinner the possible weakness of the compression members of the bridge is,talked of and Meade defends | his father’s calculations, CHAPTER II—Meade ané Helen ge out | upon the bridge in the moonlight and Helen narrowly esca, fall to the river below. Meade tells his love and they go to the colonel, who approv. riage when thé bridge ts finished. CHAPTER IV—Apbott, the tonstruction engineer, tells Meade there is a deflection in member C-10-R, but makes light of it Meade, after vainly trying to stop the work, wires his father and follows the telegram to New York. CHAPTER V—At the great enxineer's office father and son try to prevent di: aster, but young Meade only reaches Co onel Illingworth as a message comes that | the bridge, with 150 men, ts in he river. CHAPTER VI—Abbott goes on with the work, ignoring Meade's protests, but while uneasily inspecting C-0-R the lacings snap under his eyes and Le goes into eter- pity with the other men on the falling ridge. CHAPTER VIl—Young nh t to his father the possible but his objections have been His father now prepares a ent showing his own fault and sends his secretary, Shurtliff. to the Ga- zette with it, CHAPTER VISI—Young Meade, on his return, meets Rodney, an old college friend, and other reporters at the door of bie father’s office. He finds his father lead from heart failure. He assumes en- Ure responsibility for the catastrophe. Shurtliff, who has not obeyed orders, but concealed the papers the dead man had given him to make public, also accuses the younger Meade. CHAPTER IX—In her fatherie presence and over her protest Meade dreake his engagement with Helen. CHAPTER X—Ont West, at a big irri- ration dam under construction, Meade be- fins life over again as a rodman under an assumed name. “If it’s all the same to you,” uan-/ nounced the newcomer amusedly—the ebief's laughter was infectious—“‘I'm agreeable to Jones, or Brown, or—" “We have numbers of ai) of those, too.” “Really,” said the man hesitatingly, “I haven't given the subject any thought.” “What about seme of your family fhames?” “That gives me an idea.” said the newcomer, who decided to use his inether’s name, “you can call me Rob- erts.” “And I suppose John fer the prefix?” “John will do as well as any, I am sure.” “We have about fifty Johns. Every Smith appears to huve been born John.” “How did you arrange it?” asked the other with daring freedom, for 2 rod- man does not enter conversation on terms of equality with the chief en- gineer. “I got a little pocket dictionary dewn at the town with a list of names and IT went through that list with the his, dealing them out in order. Well, that will .do for your name,” he said, mak- ing @ memorandum in the little book he polled out of his flannel shirt pocket. He turned to a mun who had come up | to the level. “Smith,” he said—“by the way this is Mr. Claude Smith, Mr. Reb- erts—here’s your new rodman. You know your job, Roberts. Get to work.” And that is how Bertram Meade, a few months after the failure of the great bridge, once again entered the ranks of engineers, beginning, as was | hecessary and inevitable, very low down in the scale, CHAPTER XI. The Valley of Decision. Moch water had run under the} bridges of the world and incidentally over the wreck of the International, | j i their mar- | Meade has | | his poise, to think things out, to plan | gy | He bad an tdea that his futu | be outside of engin ug. Indeed he bad put all thought of his chosen pre- ) fession out ef his mind and heart, at | least so he fancied. Yet, spending an {idle forenoon in Chicago walting for | the departure of the western train, he | found himself irresistibly drawn to the | | great steel-framed structures, the s' scrapers rising gaunt und rigid above the other buildings of the city. Again the train was delayed and reached the Mississippi river. He left | his seut in the dining car, his dinne! COPYRIGHT BY FLETING REVELL COMPANY | uneaten on the table, to go out anand had seemed to hold absolutely noth-! spect the bridge during the half-hour ing for Meade as ke knelt by that tow | that the “limited” lay idle. The ne ind and watched the woman walk | duy some enormous irrigation works slowly away with many a backward | in western Nebraska ge engrossed his glance, with many a pause, obviousty | attention and aroused his interest that reluctant. He reulifed that the lifting | in spite of himself he stopped of « band would have cahed her back, | between trains to see them, How hard it was for hiri to remain | actions were typical, quiet; and, finally, before she disap: Yet af every ove of the: | Peared and tefore she took her las: | sions buck inte his own fielt look at hii, to turn ‘his back resolutely | science smote him as if to mark the teriniantion of the | get away fron this e situation. j there nothing else Father, faine, reputution, love, taken | away at one and the same moment! A | 2d stone, steel ‘and concrete, designs weaker man might huve sent life ee fol- | ®nd plans and wndertaking and accom- low. In the treabled days after the plishinent in the world? Beenuse it | fat of the bridge, his father's death, | Was the thing that he must abandon the inguests, his testimeny and ev and put out of his mind, engineering demee freely given, and that purting, | Seemed the only thing he cared for, something like despair had fed the ng on that} yeung eugineer'’s heart. Life held neth- tag. He debated with himself whether | it would not be !better to end it than : Winters was glad to see him. He and te live it. He envied his father his} Rodney and Meade had been the w troken heart. ‘Singulurly eneugh, the! ¢st of friends. Of course Meade ¢ ing that made life at least value | Het tell Rodpey the truth on account | the thing that kept him from| Of his newspaper connections, but he | swing it xwey—the woman. | decided finally that he could and would Striving to canulyze the comple tell Winters under assurance of abso- emotions that centered about His losses | lute secrecy, For one thing the big Be was forced to xdmit, ulthough it| ¢attemun had bluntly refused to credit seemed 2 sign of weakness, that love | Is friend's first-statements ; and, when ef women was -zrenter t love of | he at last heard the truth, he blamed Taine, that in ie tiklaice one girl out-| him roundly while he appreciated fully weighed bridge and father. That the | the nobleness of his self-sacrifice. ‘The. nee was ended was what made | Clear-headed, practical Winters put it | eee ortable: Vat the faint vaeaet| this way: Mente was eapable of do- posstbifity that it might be resumed if | ee ena eins © humanity as ani be could find some way to show his | €hsiveer ane de fair to be even worthiness was whut made him cling | sreater than lis father, yet for the to it. | sake of the fame of a dead man, to Of wourse he vould huve showed} Whom after all it would matter little, | without much difficulty and beyond | he had cancers away that splendid op- | redventure at the inquest ever Ab-| Pertunity! | orm aed the LAT eEA HER into the This was anew thought to Meade cause of the (aflure of the bridge—un- |.and « disturbing one, Unfortunately, | fortunate but too obyious—that the |-#8 even Winters was forced to ac-} frightivi and fata) error in the design | knowledge, the suggestion came too | was net his and that he had protested | te. we course;pad peen entered up- | in! poe y only he |*oD- wou e cowardly to try to 4 pele Sowa tet sprains a his | Change it now. Indeed it would have father. But that he would never do ‘been impossible with the disappear- and the letter hed not been diacovered | #Bce of the written protests and notes, amyway. He did mot even regret the | Dven if Shurtliff had been willing, no bold falsehood he had uttered or the | 0Ne would have believed a delayed re | pructical subornetion of perjery of | traction and explanation, and Shurtliff which be had been guilty in drawing would not have been willing Meade out ané acceptimg and emphusizing| WeH knew, Neither for that matter Shurtliffs testimony. was Mende himself. He was glad that There had been wo Inquest over his “the gral had been settled: and would father’s deuth. The «autopsy bad | vb CRI Ge) DON though Win: showed <fearly heart failure. He dad | ers’ rough-and-ready presentation of not been-compelled eo yo on the wiwexs | the ling tion, disquieted him. } Ay ciel apeiron orien ory einer | Winters, who suw how greatly over- though, if diat had been demanded, he | W7oneht and unstrung his friend was, | must needs have gone through with it. contented himself with the assertion, | Indeed se prompt and public had been | He did not press the point or urgue it | his avewals of responsibility that he | With bin. He rested quietly confident Hadianctehecn viously questioned that mutters would right themselves thereun. He had left mothing ypeer- | Some Way fn the long run. He treated tain. There was nothing concealed. Meade exuctly right. He left him to He hid inherited a eempetence from his fathe It was indeed much more than be or anyone had expecte had re al enongh ready mone the sale of certa securities for his present needs. remainder he | 3 ; x ey times he would be gone for several placed in Shurtiiff’s care and a few | B x days, coming back white and haggard days after the funeral, having settled | ing exhausted but vietor In aN aed everything possible, he took a train for | battle fought out alone. the} West. One day there came to the ranch a | The whole world and he was measurably familiar with | many portions of it. He could have | . buried himself in out-of-the-way cor- ners of far countries, in strange conti- nents. These possibilities did not at- tract him. He wanted to get away from, out of touch with, the life he had led. He wished to go to some place where he could be practically alone, where he could have time to recover over And these excur- his con- never to vring? Was for him but brick There would be no-enginee ranch on the slopes could settle the question there. ] xvineer would mount a horse—and all z h om {tt fom) Would ride awa mountains with a cumping outfit. Some- was before him, ~ diy chat und pleasant remini- | ni “Meade hus disappeared absolutely,” | wrote Rodney in closing. “Even Miss | | Iingworth, to whom he was reported | engaged and upon whom I have called | | occasionally, says she does not know | his whereabouts. Of course you saw | in the papers his connection with the | tragedy and failure of the Internation- Although his frank statement was | corroborated by that of the older | Meade's private secretary, I have never his future, to try to devise a means for rehabilitation, if it were possible. He They w | his own devices. He did not force his | ff company upon him, Sometimes the en- | ji neh were at his disposal—and | jf into the woods and | | letter to Winters from Rodney, fuil of | f Winters Passed the Letter Over to Meade Without Comment. some way. And tt gave him joy also. uld work despite any remons: trance from him, He thought of that protest to his father always with un- easiness. If he could only have found It and destroyed it himself he would have been happier. Could it be in ex- istence somewhe Would it turn up? Would they uneurth it? Well, he had r, yet he was glad those two disbelieved and were working for him. Meade had been the most brilliant, Winters the most indifferent, Rodney the most persevering, of the trio at col- lege. He remembered that well. His | first thought was to forbid Redney to do anything further, although how far his friend would respect his wishes he could net tell. Anyway, he did not have to decide that mutter, because he could pet say a word to him To have qUewed Winters to write would Page Seven 52D Aer AOS CTT A NR RL OMA SE EEE ES SR TE abouts. He | just finished the arch) up under Gee Was living with Winters under an #8-— mesa, A well-known construction com- sumed name of course, He had hed | pany was building the great earth dare his h cut differently and had grow) | across the Picket Wire in the valley. a beard and mustuche. He thought it Meade’s engineering Hte had ‘bece would have taken u keen e indeed to spent mainly out of the United States. have recognized him with these} He had never been connected with’ the changes. Martlet and its employees uvotfl he hat In the end he handed the letter back | been associated with his father on the to Winters, only charging him that if | International. He could have gone he wrote to Rodney he must not betr among them with little danger of im the fact that Meade was with him. He! mediate discovery, since most of the had plenty of time to think over the | men he had known had gone down with situation. Me decided finally that so the bridge, but he decided not to de long us he hud been born an engineer) so, The work on the dam would be and trained and educated as an en-. simpler and he would have less oppor gineer he would have to be until the | tunity to betray himself and it woulé end of the chapter. He would go out | give him more nee te work up in a and seek work, not such work as his; plausible and reasonable way. Besides, ability and experience, but under some | if Col ‘| Iingworth cane on to in assumed nume he would begin at the | spect the bridge, as he would probably very beginning. at the foot of the lad-| do, Meade would have to leave before der as a rodman, if he could; and] bis arrival, The dam would be safer. then he would work on quietly, faith-, No one would ever think of looking for fully, obscurely, praying for bis chance. | him t And ne one would ever If it cume he would strive to be equal recogni in the rough-bearded work- to the opportunity ; if it did not at least | man the clear-cut, smooth-faced young he would be engaged in honest work in| engineer of other days. an honest way. The dam was twenty miles up the It wus a very humble program, not} valley. Yes, he would be less apt to be at all p sing or heroic or remantic, | observed working there than en the | Just a beginning. He would work on| bridge, Yet as he alled that pri and wait. They say that all things! vate cur and that it m + come there, come to him who waits. That is only| he realized that she might be on it. half true, Some things come to him) His heart leaped even as it had leaped who That is more | at the sight of the viaduct then build- Well, he could think | ing, as it had quiv 1 to the familiar of no better plan, So he bade Win-| rat-tat-tat of the poecumatic riveters ters good-by, swearing him again to} and the clang and the clash of the secrecy until he should lift: the ban! structural steel. But what was the When | use?) He would not dare trust himself little village on the! to look at her even from a distance below the dam he) No, it was the dam that best sulted his | stopped a long time gazing at the long! purpose, so he turned away the bridge, or viaduct, of steel that was re-] bridge and rode up the vail Where placing the old wooden trestle and | he was fortunate In falling into # pe ecurrying the railroad from the hills} sition, as has been set forth. to the eustward over the river, It wus not h un undertaking as the lost International, still it was in- teresting engi ripg construction. It was work that would be intensely con- at the Seventeen Mile Shearing plant genial, to which he was drawn almost |should see Angus McPherson about | irresistibly, yet he managed to hold booking dates. himself aloof. The Martlet people were 4-24, 25, 28, 30 building this steel bridge and they had | 7°5'% Ape a have betrayed his wh S sometimes, curate. uguinst speech, and rode away. he got to the Picket Wire (Continued Tomorrow) ————— or Those wishi g to shear their sheep « WANTED | This is will be capital A representative for America’s most popular two thousand dollar motor car. an old line, well established, and we are selling one a day in Denver. It necessary that they have sufficient to give the proper service on cars they sell, and maintain a show room in could do that just as well, perhaps bet- ter, in America than in any place else, been able to believe it, neither does | Miss Illingworth. | cate with her in any way. 3 I know Bert, and so And there was another reason that! does she. We can't accept even his held him to dis native land. He would | own testimony. We have been work- still tread the same soll, breathe the | ing together to establish the truth, but same air, with the woman. He did not with very faint prospects of success so desire to put seas between them. | fur. There’s some tremendous mystery | He swore to himself that the free | shout it. I have thought that maybe dom he had offered her, that he had in- | Meade might have come to you. If he} deed forced upon her unwilling and re-| has show him this letter and beg hin | jecting it, should be no empty thing so | to tell us the truth at any rate.” far as he was concerned. He would| winters passed the letter over to| leave her absolutely untrammeled. He | Meade without comment. The en- would not write to her or communi- | gineer read it with passionate eager- | i He wonld | ness, He was hungry for any news of | jj not even seek her to hear about her | Helen Mingworth. Rodney was call-| | and of course as she would not know | keeping with their car. ; If in il represe . days. whither he had gone or where he was} ing upon her. A sharp pung of jealousy | 8 she could not communicate with him. | shot through him at that, although he The silence that had fallen between | pnew there was no reason. Dear old them should not be broken even for-| pogney! He could see his grave face, ever unless and until— Ah, yes, he his disapproving manner, his air of un- could not see any way to complete that | yoljef, as he had taken down Meade's “anless and until” at first, but perhaps | words in the office that tragic day. after a while he might. Of course, Helen Iilingworth was not He knew exactly where he would £0. | 9 recluse as he was. She mingled in Dick Winters, another classmate and society. She took up life with its de devoted friend at Cambridge, had gone} mands, She entered into its pleasures out West shortly after graduation. He/ 4nq syifilled its duties. He was jea- had a big cattle ranch miles from 41 joys of everyone who wight come in railroad in a young southwestern state. | wontact with her, but he knew the |_| Winters, like the other member of the} james of none except Rodney, = ‘T ee He Debated With Himself Whether It Would Not Be Better to End It Than to Live, since that bitter farewell between Rertram Meade and Helen Mlingworth the. Sete 511 ceesuesbeencned 56 youthful triumvirate, Rodney, was a bachelor. He could be absolutely de- pended upon. He had often begged | of course Helen Illingworth was sus- Meade to visit him. The engineer) nojous, but why shiculd Rodney doubt would do it now. He knew Winters | pig assumption of the blame? And would respect his moods, that he would they were working to’establish his In- let him severely alone, that he could | pocenee. The thought disquieted him get on a horse and ride into the hills] jac; they should discover the truth ip and do what he.pleased, think ont his thonghts andis{uched, ! And they were suspicious of his avowal! That was balm to his soul, terested, write at once and our ntative will call on you in a few Address 666, Care The Tribune. ete sr onannairy rman