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[THE DAwwxy HAAMNEN CIAKLOTEETUWN, DECEMBER 6, 1899

THE GAMBLERS OF GRAVEL MAU TALR

By MORLEY ROBERTS.

fOopyright, 1899, by Morley Roberts.}

(Continued. )

AS De sal Loere With open ears, which gradually grew acute in the stillness of midnight, he heard a inaudible in the busy day Every balk laid flat for the great uprights had its word, every upright whispered, the roof

thousand voices

timbers complained, there was a sound that was no sound or like no known sound in the world. If it was like aught, it resembled most a breath of wind ina tuft of grassin a tree It was like the sound of fine wheat grow- A mouse’s cry As the

held his breath be working. But he understood what the minute chorus of the night meant. The wood in the tunnel was beginning to take the strain.

‘Beginning,’ he said, ‘beginning!’

And when he slept again he dreamed that he and his brother were back in

the men were tearning to.

“T couldn’t sleep last night.”’

**No?’’ said Keeley.

“So I got up and went into the tun nel.”’

‘*What time?”

*“*About 1.”’

**I was there at 3,’" said Keeley.

‘‘Then you heard it?’’ asked Bill.

‘She begins to feel it,’’ said Keeley. “but that’s of course.”’

He caught his brother's eye.

**Oh, don’t croak!’’ he cried angrily and the food was dry in his mouth.

But that day the men were joyful, for daylight ran throngh the tunnel. And the workers of the east shook hands with the workers of the west, hurrah-

ing wildly at the work which seemed so |

nearly done. For there is this quality

in human workers—joy in toil under |

fair conditions, joy in strife, satisfac- tion in defeat, if defeat must come

And to those who knew little this meant | victory. Yet the struggle was even now | beginning: It began a week later when |

the timbering was complete from end to end, for only then did the tunnel be- gin to be audible to gross ears in day- light, when the live world talked, the world that was made of a million in- sects and 10,000 men strung from the summit to the Columbia.

Among those who worked with the lumber were many rudely learned in the strength of materials, and some of them were very doubiful.

‘*How does it go?’’ asked 'Keeley.

‘‘Al! right for the present, Mr. Hol- dredge.’ said they. And at first they did not add **But’’—

Among themselves, in ‘their rude shacks and tents, they estimated the weight of the hill.

‘Pine and fir will never ‘hold. want hard woods, oak and teak.’

‘‘Steel,”’ said another

‘“‘And steel won’t,”’ said a third.

“Tf she comes, will she come snd- ‘den ?’’ asked the laborers, as they work-

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| ed with sledge and maul

gut they were paid toriskiat. Some left, for their nerves gave way when they took to thinking of a quick run out of the pit. Even those who staid frowned to hear the timber talk. It spoke so loudly of the heavy world above them—the sinking world in the bright air.

Keelev went un to see Ross. and _ the

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He spoke to |

‘““Well?’’ said Keeley /

ne APRA ns SERRE, big man car Sown to look at work He wa hy nen end. and when i daylight he used the same expression th il 1ine to : MAC } ij “Talks a good deal,"’ he said Ke ley nodded and tried to look cheerful “She s settled down, I rec] ‘*I reckon not, tid Ross, ‘‘but she’s

settling don *'

Shall { send you down Gor

Gordon was the Scotch engineer who

had ‘‘doots. ’’

“For I think you’d better double timber it,’’ said Ross. He knew what that meant, and was a bit sorry for

tonose who had bet

that pile of gravel ‘*send Gordon,

said

Ke el Fs

gan next day.

‘leester Holdred tumbled off his pony

**That’s so,"’ said Keeley. ‘“‘And you are Mr. Gordon. Will you walk through

now or after dinner ?’’

‘I’m hungry and in ea wicked bad temper the noo,’’ said Gordon, ‘‘so I'll go through right away and gie youa And then I'll tak my food and a drink and hae a

hungry man’s opeenion

semok

go wrong, Mr. Holdredge. And

temper you can’t trust his word.’’

He sat down on a heavy balk, which uprights, when It was then the dinner hour and the men were stowing rough beef and rougher The sound of their laughter and talk came even into the

was the step for three he came to the middle of the tunnel. pie ina big tent.

tunnel.

A cracking, weeping,

one upright and listened.

it the balk was compressed two inches. On each side eplintery fibers stood up.

wood. upright **Gie's

one,’

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not yet used. ‘Is she straight?’’ asked Gordon, pointing to the upright.

sullenly

But Gordon put the scantling’s two inch side against the huge balk, and it only touched it closely on cne place— just in the middle. On the other side of the balk the two ends of the scan- tling tonched, but the middle was an inch away.

‘‘She just buckling, man,” said Gor- don.

‘‘But tobe sure we’ll try some mair.”

With three out of five the result was the same

“She talks a deal too much,” Gordon wood

said

**Yon've laid too much on the I always said I had my doots. But now I’ve nae doots—deevil a doot!’

‘‘She’s coming down, man—slow, but sure. When you hear timbers crack a wee bittee, it’s naething, for they'd crack wi’ heat or wi’ cold, but it’s this talk, talk, talk all the time that’s fear- eome, for timber only talks naturally when the strain varies—when one rubs against another. And too much talk in a wooden ship means a shortening life, and there we know the strains) Who knows ‘em here? I’ve nae doots, man. But let’s hae dinner.”’

‘‘Mr. Gordon thinks we’re gone up, Bill,’’ said Keeley when they were at the table

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The Scotchman had his mouth full

and could not speak, but he held up his finger and straggled with a half chewed chunk of beef. When he had gorged it. he spoke.

“That was my hungry opeenion, boys, and maybe my afternoon one wipna differ much. But though they say a Scotchman fights best with his belly empty, it was never my way, and I’ve mair doots in the early morn than any other time. Courage comes out of feed- ing and a moderate use of speerits and, above all, not too much tobacco. And I’ve mair faith full than hungry, wheth- er it’s in materials of in Providence. And that’s a strong good argument avainst asceticism and a silly ecorn cf God’s good creatures. ”’

He showed no scorn of them fill it svas obvious he could eat no more.

“Barring the pipe, I’m done till sup- per time,’’ he said presently, ‘‘and after one smoke I’ll play the wise physeecian again and put my finger on the pulse of the big hill and tell you what’s what in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. And 1 don’t mind saying out straight that my experience is as big as that of a carload of the common run cf engineers.”

He went through the tunnel again, and the brothers followed. Once or twice he stopped and spoke to a laborer as well as the foreman.

‘“You wonder,’’ he said to Bill Hol- dredge, ‘‘that I’d speak to these men and hear what they have to say, for I see all they see and mair. But I’ve learnt to trust to feelings, man, as well as ccld knowledge, and till you do you may be a school engineer, but the books are across your eyes and heavy on your mind.”

When they reached the far end, he invited them to sit on a fallen iree.

| “And now you want my second

thoughts!”

their pile against

and a rough old Scotch tyke came from Lag-

ize?’’ he said as be

ce and gie you afull man’s best judgment, for with both I don’t often till you knew a man’s digestion and his

For five minutes Gordon said noth- ing. The air was full of strange sounds. whimpering, went on forever. He laid his ear against

“‘Gie me the lamp,’’ he said present- ly. And he looked at the fir he had been sitting on. Where one upright stood on

A little damp oozed from the green He stood back and looked at the a straight edge if you hae

And Keeley found hima 2 by 4 scantling lying among the balks

“I think so,’’ said Keeley, almost

sald Keeley | his pipe. and if enough to sft on somefhing else, my advice is todo it. I’m not asking any thing and don’t know how you and Ross fixed it up. But to goon is to gamble. ’’

‘*Against a certainty ?’’ asked Bill

Gordon screwed up his mouth and shook his head slowly.

‘I'll no say that, but it’s long odds.’

"Ave An i Cx raon fill

“If you can drop it, you be

i |

“And if we go on, what?’ asked Keeley

‘‘Donble timber her throughout and get some hard wood if youcan. But my advice is to ent your losses and yeur labor. There’s naething in the world so peetiful as honest labor wasted. Goodby, boys, and good luck to you!”’

He rode back to Laggan whistling.

‘‘They’ll try it; they’l) try it,’’ he said. ‘And i’ve nae doot they’ll bear the catastrophe like men—nae doot at all.”’

And that very night the second set of timber was ordered. What they could buy they bought. But suitable hard wood there was none within 2,000 miles, and to set that hill on oak pil- lars was to buy $10 with a golden eagle. As a makeshift new pine and fir

fell on fat and mountain slope, and the ,

trees of daylight were daily buried in the pit. (To be Con 1 nued)

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