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'You won't get him out. 'Lucky I met Bob Lotten. I told him he hadn't any business impounding water for his idiotic trout without rebuilding the dam. 'How far up is it? I've only been there once. 'Not more than four miles as the water will come. He says he's opened all the sluices. She had turned and fallen into step beside him, her hooded head bowed against the thinning rain.
Yet others tried to equip themselves at home somewhat to meet the red flood when it should break the dam and sweep across the American borders. Of these last was Jim Dyckman. Since he had joined the National Guard he gave it more and more of his enthusiasm. Unhappily married men have always fled to the barracks or the deck as ill-mated women fled to convents.
Dust seemed not to have touched him. He was clean and trim and fine, a picture of an officer and a gentleman. Light, and the new music of the spheres to whom did she owe those things? It was to this man standing yonder. "McQueston," she heard a sharp voice command, "take your men and go down to the lower dam any way you can get across the mountains.
"Who sabez the way of the Great Spirit? He make you go. He make Injun go. He make nigger and Chinamans stay. Perhaps they right, you and Injun wrong. Who sabez?" "I'd like to have finished my dam," Jim muttered. "Somehow we are inadequate. I woke up too late." And suddenly a deeper significance came to him of Pen's verse "Too late for love, too late for joy; Too late! Too late!
The crew threw great lumps of the flesh which they had still left upon the ice, which the old bear fetched away singly, laying every lump before the cubs as she brought it, and dividing it, gave each a share, reserving but a small portion to herself. As she was fetching away the last piece, they shot both the cubs dead, and wounded the dam, but not mortally.
You remember, boys, that day the dam broke and he stood thar, the water up to his neck, heavin' logs in the break till he stopped it." Briefly, the evening, in spite of its initial culinary failure and its surprises, was a decided social success, and even the bewildered and doubting Prosper went to bed relieved.
The water of the Chagres River is exceptionally high, owing to the rains, and if a breach were blown in the dam now it would mean the letting loose of a destructive flood." "But who would want to blow up the dam?" asked Blake. "Enemies of the United States," was the captain's answer.
Old Squire Hogadorn could carry around more mixed licker, and cuss better than most any man I ever see. His second wife was the widder Billings she that was Becky Martin; her dam was deacon Dunlap's first wife. Her oldest child, Maria, married a missionary and died in grace et up by the savages. They et him, too, poor feller biled him.
"Merely friendly call. And for heaven's sake don't swallow a tack, son. I'm going to need you." "Whaffor?" inquired Willy Cameron, through his nose. "Don't know yet. Make speeches, probably. If Howard Cardew, or any Cardew, thinks he's going to be mayor of this town, he's got to think again." "I don't give a tinker's dam who's mayor of this town, so long as he gives it honest government."
He repeated this twice, and then all of the group began to shout and wave their hands. The boys glanced at one another in amazement. What was the meaning of such an idiotic performance? Suddenly Ned turned pale. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed. "The dam must have broken, and those people can see the flood somewhere up the creek. They are warning us to get out of the way."
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