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The drop from that dizzy height would of itself have meant certain death. Yet without a second glance at the ice-covered waters, he followed his companions along the narrow walk of sleeted planks that ran out alongside the service-track. Though his gaze frequently shifted downward as well as upward, it went no farther than the ponderous chords and girders and posts of the bridge's framework.
He started along the service-track at a quick jog-trot. The men, without a single exception, followed him in a mass, jostling each other for the lead. Near the outer end of the approach span they met the morning shift of carpenters and laborers, who were hurrying shoreward in response to the wild alarm of the engine whistle. Blake waved them about. "Bridge in danger!" he shouted.
The electro-magnetic crane of the smaller traveller was already swinging up a number of pieces of structural steel to load on the cars as they rolled out to the extreme end of the service-track. McGraw came hurrying to take charge of the eager loading gang.
How do you know?" queried Mr. Leslie. "It's a hundred to one odds. That wire to Griffith 'On the job, y' know. He'll be where the most work is going on. I'll go fetch him." "If you will, James," said Genevieve. "Tell him that papa not I You understand." "Trust me!" He smiled, glanced appealingly at Dolores, met a frown, and started briskly away out the service-track. "Wait," ordered Dolores.
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