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

CYRUS “THE ISLAND OF REGENERATION” ETC, CIVIL ENGINEER. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—Bertram Meade 1s con- sulting engineer representing his father, the great Meade, who is the designer of the International bridge, the greatest can- ifever structure the world fas ever heard of. In the shadow of the uncompleted bridge young Meade receives Colonel Ill- ingworth, president of the Martlet Bridge compan: he constructors, and the colon- el’s daughter, Helen, whom he loves, CHAPTER II—At dinner the possible weakness of the compression members of the bridge is talked of and Meade defends | bis father’s calculations. CHAPTER HiI—Meade and Helen go out upon the bridge in the moonlight and Helen narrowly escapes a fall to the river below. Meade tells his love and they go to the colonel, who approves their mar- riage when the bridge ts finished. CHAPTER IV—Abbott, the construction | 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 engineer's office father and son try to prevent d aster, but young Meade only reaches Col- onel Ulingworth as a message comes that the bridge, with 160 men, is in the river. CHAPTER VI—Abbott goes on with the work, ixnoring Meade's protests, but while uneasily inspecting C-10-R the lacings! map under his eyes and he goes into eter- | Bity with the other men on the falling ridge CHAPTER VII—Young Meade has pointed out to his father the possible but his objections have been His father now prepares a showing his own fault and sends his secretary, Shurtliff, to the Ga- zette with ft. i CHAPTER VITI—Young Meade, on his Teturn, meets odney, old college friend, and other reporters at the door of his father’s office. He finds his father dead from heart faflure. He assumes en- tire responsibility for the catastrophe. Bhurtliff. who has not obeyed orders, but concealed the papers the dead man’ had Fiven him to make public, also accuses | the younger Meade. | | CHAPTER IX—In her father’s presence | and er her protest Meade breaks his engagement with Helen. CHAPTER X—Out West, at a big irri gation dam under construction, Meade be. fine life over again as a rodman unde ap assumed name. CHAPTER XI—Meade has gone to the} ranl, of Winters, a college friend, and | there taken stock of himself and the ter- | rible responsibility he has assumed to tuve his father’s name from dishonor. He | makes the new start as an unknown. | | PTER XIl—Helen and Rodney con- | ‘i save Meade from his own false vonfession in spite of himself. Shurtiiff | has been employed by the colonel and Helen, thinking he knows the truth, se out to win bis confidence. i] CHAPTER Xi1. | Marshaling the Evidence. i Yor all her sweetness and light, | Helen Mlingworth was dowered with | intense energy and a powerfal will. | What she began she finished, and she was not deterred from beginning {aings by fears of consequences, She was con that Meade had not told the truth in that famous declaration in his | father’s office. She respected him for his desire to shield his father’s name nod fume even at the expense of his ity, albeit she would not have | # woman if she had not resented vineed = TOWNSEND BRADY “AUTHOR ef “THE CHALICE OF COURAGE” COPYRIGHT BY FLEMING HW. REVELL COMPANY interested you are in Meade tation.” “Mr, Rodney,” flushing a little, that returned the woman, ou know of course we were enguged He considers | the er sment broken.” | “I suppose so. That would be like him,” said Rodney gravely. “Indeed a8 a nun of honor he could do no less.” “You are all alike,” said the wom an a little bitterly. “Your notions are supreme. You muxy sacrifice love and your best friend so long as you pre- Serve those notions of honor intact.” “And yet if we weren't honorable men you wouldn't care for us at all.” “The King Could Do No Wrong.” earth to save bis father, even at the sacrifice of his own career, and since I have seen you I can realize how pow- “Yes, I se 's 4 , 5 ei hicieti cae that’s it. Well, I do} ert) these motives must have been.” care very mnuch, as you understand. 1 Rodney said thi i imply, as if odney sal 3 Ds y, as may us well be frank with you. My see itis SEU ceeeET Ate it were a matter of course, rather than | a compliment, and bluntly as he might have sald it to a friend and comrade. | and Helen Illingworth understood and | was grateful. { “It has been o grief to me that I! weighed so little in comparison,” she sald simply. father, of course, is bitterly antagunis- tic to Mr. Meade. He won't even al- low his name to be mentioned.” “One can hardly blame him for that, Miss Illingworth. The failure of the bridge seriously embarrassed the Mart- let Bridge company, and it is a gri handicap for them to overcome in see ing any further contracts “But I did not summon you here to discuss the affairs of the Murtlet Bridge company,” suid Helen, “inter- esting though they may be, but to see if by working together there was not some way by which we could prove that Bertram Meade bas assumed the blame to suave the honor and fame of his father. “You believe that, Miss Hlingworth?” | “I am sure of it.” “So am I,” said Rodney quickly. “Thank God,” cried the girl a little hysterically, surprised and almost swept off her feet by this prompt avowual by oue who, though young, was already an authority in the literature of engineering. “Why do you say that? What evidence have you?” “Unfortunate answered Rodney, “I haven't any tangible evidence whuat- ever, but I know Bert Meade as few | people know him, Miss Illingworth, | perhaps not even you,” he went on, in | spite of her unspoken, but vigorous | protest at that last statement, us she | rs shook her bead and smiled at him. } fortune. H i { “And there are several little circum- aebat iene: Mindectakecklon ue stancés that make me feel that he| qualities mer.t and would evoke in could not have been to blame, Have | Hi ne us peo ao ee cw ” ou any ground for your conviction?” | Bere ante y , : ¥ y § Stak eaucouS | “Of course you know that what we! ‘Probably even less than you have and yet I, too, know him." Helen n-| have said is not evidence. It is all as- Nngworth looked inte the plain, home- | somone perhaps, Se ateiit ly, but strong, reliable face of the | de clipe sic ieorice soll JUST 2st man and dismissed any thought of re- | C4*Hestly. et “To you and to me, ves. Well,” he serve frou her mind. | f | “Let us place,” she began, “the little continued, “I remember that Meude circumstances upon which our intui- | 84 1 were talking Just before he went | to Burma three years ugo about a new | tions are based, if intuitions are ever 1 : . | book by a German named Schmidt- based on anything tangible, r . Perhaps the sum of its may yield) Chemnitz, in which certain methods of shouldn't put it that way exact: | * observed Rodney carefully. “You | see even if if could be shown that it} was the old mun’s fault entirely the} young one would still have to share | some of the blame.” “You meup he should have foreseen it and pointed it out?” “T think he did, but if he did fore- see it and point it out, he should not} have allowed the older min to overawe him or force him to accept what he be- | lieved to be structurally unsound. I | don't know whether he reasoned it out, | I don't think he had time to argue the the shock was so swift #nd sud- den, but as soon as he did see the situ- ation he dis ered that you were lost unyway, except of the charity of your affection, which he could not xe and that he could save his fathe may all be the wildest speculation, but this is the way it presents itself to case, And to me,” said Helen, “but before | we go uny further, let me say I should | rather be his wife than enjoy any other | something.” calculations were on sed for the a “The suggestion is admirable,” as- | “8? of raat one it was ‘ he | | serted Rodney, “and as I knew him) Hcings of one ¢ 1e compression first And longest I will begin. te Perhaps | members of the cantilever that gave | way.” ‘ e notes so; it would be well. too, the fact that in so doing he nad saeri- | that we may consider them at leisur { = We | Meade and T xot into a hot dis- ficed her huppiness as well as his own, | getting an ey@ yiew as well as an ear; Cussion over some of Schmidt-Chem Phe question whether Meade, Jr, , View of them.” { nitz’s formulas, Lavaintained that they was the more responsible or even r¢ ow, in the first place,” he began, 4° wrong, He took the opposite | pousible’ at all was more or iess , W?iting and speaking at the sume time, | Yew. He was right. He was so in- Mademic to Colonel Mingworth. He | “Point one is Mende’s absolutely un Brey ne them martes oat oon we would have had nothing further to do | bounded devotion to his father, The , >¢l ated he Nas hz uy a7 saad a out with either of them if both were living, | @l@ mun was not always right. The | he psi hy serie ae Ri: +a und cortainly not with the younger sur BOY Was as clear as a bell on most | enforce "a ba 1 eekict oe ce series vivor. He tried to believe that if it | things, but I recall that he would muain- T made a oa a ee oh -! maitiie ae Ve had come to a final choice the daugh- | tain his father’s propositions tena- | Pers and by Pees EEN psfoune oe ter, in spite of the fact that such ig | Clously. determinedly, long after every: | letter. I was half-convinced by ne ' | $ reasoning then, although the matter the habtt of women in the experience | body. perhaps even the old man him- | — nan di Lean ratiegethen ar of life. would not have given up age | Sélf, had been convinced of their fai- | Ato bass > sata SaPeaieee inte and her father for youth and her lover. , lacy. Engineering is in Mende’s blood. yenesy Thi a x setae araee ee Indeed she was too genuinely devoted | He is the fifth of his family to gradu- | ‘ ear ; SEU Tien tar ine et e aA | to her father to do that except as a] ate at Harvaré and three of lis for- pian any ee Daemearei Fe h last resort. | bears were engineers, his grandfather | Calculations did no} secee wit » those She noted and his father world-famous. He | Of Schmidt-Chemnitz. is methods cherished the hope first, that Meade could reestablish himself—she had too sweeping a confidence in his character and capacity to doubt that— and ond, that it could be shown that he had not been responsible for the failure of the bridge. She was tnere and more convinced that his as- Sumption of the blame had been dic- tated by the highest of motives and instead of being a fit subject for cen-| Sure and condemnation, he merited ad- | tuiration and applause. She hoped with her woman's wit to prove this event- ually, perhaps in spite of her lover. | and to this end she applied herself as- siduously to solve the problem. To her, at her request, came Rod-, hey. Now the reporters had dealt very kently with Helen Iingworth. They had made no announcement of the en- fagement or of its breaking at her fa- ther’s earnest request. ‘There was no hecessity of bringing her Into the bridge story, although it would have added a dramatic touch to their nar- ratives, Her inclination had been to avow it. But upon reflection she saw it would have annoyed her futher be- yond expression, it would not have helped Meade any and it might ham- ber her in her work. She realized that she had Rodney to thank for this omission and after she had time to col- lect herself she asked him to call upon her. He was very glad to come. “T sent for you, Mr. Rodney, on ac- count of Mr. Bertram Meade,” she be- gan, after thanking him for his cour- tesy toward her the day the older Meade died and thereafter. “I want you to help me.” “T shall he delighted to do s Mende could not have forgotten the matter. I am morally king could de no wrong. Mende was | certuin that he made a protest to his quick-teniy und not very receptive | futher, probably in writing, then al- to criticism, but he would take the se- | lowed himself to be persuaded by his verest stricture from the old man with- father’s reasoning. As a matter of out s murmur.” fact, I supy that Bertram Meade, | “Here we have,” said the woman, | Sr. was a greater authority on steel | who had listened with strained atten- | bridge designing than even Schryidt- tion, “an curly devotion to a person Chemnitz. Well, sometimes, the small- and an unbounded respect for his at-|er man 1s right. We know now, and | tainments. Go on.” Bertram Meade, Sr., would admit it it “The next point is, M he were alive, that Schmidt-Chemnitz ordinately proud of his family reputa- | was right, and we can make a good tion, especially in the engineering | guess that young Meade did not let it field. Of the two of the line who were | pass without a protest. not engineers, one was a soldier and a| “Mr, Rodney, it’s wonderful.” distinguished one, but his career had! “Well, that’s not all. There was not little interest for Mende. Ihave heard a little bit of hesitation in Meade’s him say that there had been w steady. | assumption of the blame, not a person upward movement In his family, that, who heard it doubted it, apparently had reached its culmination in his fa- | But I was the first man to see the older Meade except his son and Shurtliff.” | “Oh, Shurtlitt!” “We'll come to him presently. It. wns obvious that the older Meade had | been writing. J don’t know whether the others noticed it, but it is my bust- | ness to take in even Inconsiderable de- | tails. The pen was still between his fingers. His hand was constricted and | the pen had not dropped out-—in fact. ; I myself took it out and taid it on the des’ un-| sprig 1 | something, there “You have established a for] © ives: for c any sacrifice; love, respect, pride!” | tint there were ink-stains on his fin- | “That's the way it presents Itself to gers.” , | me, Miss Illingworth. I know thor- “What did he write‘and to whom?” | oughly the quixotic, impulsive, self- “J don't know. 1 can only guess.” sacrificing nature of the man. I know “What do yon, guess?” that he wontd. have done ‘anything oa fairly idolized his father, The uffec- | were not used. tion between them was delightful. The le was in- | ther. He hoped te be a good, useful | engineer, but he never dreamed of KO- | ing any higher or even approaching | the ‘altitude of the other man.” | “Tt was a sort of fetish with hin j then, wasn’t It?” usked the womun as | Rodney stopped again. “You have hit it exactly. His love for the man, his admiration for the engineer, which somet Dlinde hin, and his pride in his father’s career as typifying his family, was bounded,” les ast conscions act was to write motive iation IT ascertained THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE | he wrote a bold, free hand | have persuaded me beyond a doubt.” | wrote his letter and attached it with | | worships efficiency and he knows that! “The assumption of entire responsi- | Dility and the exeulpation of his son, | probably to some paper bs m the prompted Bert?” “No, because it was true. But that is only an assumption, although not al- | together without further evidence. “And what is that?” asked the wom an eagerly. She had sat down opposite at the table and him. | that | tives Let Me Be You ICE MAN Iney was leaning rd Her color cume and went, her breathing was rapid and strained un- der the wild beating of her heart tow “The blotter on the desk. IT exam ined it ut my leisure. It had been | used some time. [I weut over it with M r.. had e magnifying glass. , I found Vil bring a Mechanical Ice Plant into your home and dently written te the words ‘fault 's mine.’ I have the blot-| keep your refrigerator chilled forever. No ice, no dirt ter in my desk. The word ‘fault’ is or slop. Nothing to get out of repair and no ice bills. barely decipt ible, ‘is’ can be made out with difficulty, but ‘mine’ is quite I am familiar with the handwriting, and though this | is weaker and feebler arid more irregu- | lar than was his linurily this is un- mistakably his. Of course no one ean | suy thut he wrote any letter. This is piling assumption upon assumption and, furthermore, th is no evidence | any Signature having been written | beneath it.” “Is that all?” | “There ts one more bit of evidence. The sheet of paper on which the de- sign computations for the compression | chord members appear was not with | The only home plant in the world. Drop a postal card ole and I¢t me call and tell you about it. 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