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Updated: May 18, 2025
The road was a narrow track through the snow, yellow with horse-dung, and a mass of holes and ruts, worn by his own teams that had hauled their heavy loads of cement this way all through that winter and the last, up to the plateau and across the frozen lakes to Besna. The steel will on. The steel cares nothing for human beings. Merle must come through it alone.
The talk turned on other things for a while, and then he asked: "By the way, Peer, have you seen that advertisement of the British Carbide Company's?" "No, what about?" "They want tenders for the damming and harnessing of the Besna River, with its lake system and falls. That should be something in your line." "No," said Ferdinand sharply. "I told you before that job's too small for him.
But he would hardly find Him in idleness. You have drawn such nourishment as you could from joy in your home, from your marriage, your fatherhood, nature, and the fellowmen around you here. There are unused faculties in you that hunger for exercise; that long to be set free to work, to strive, to act. You should take up the barrage on the Besna, Peer. But could you get the contract?
Who could foresee that against all probability a big vein of water would be tapped in tunnelling, and would burst out, flooding the workings and overwhelming the workmen so that the next day a train of unpainted deal coffins goes winding out over the frozen lakes? More than once there had been remarks and questions in the newspapers: "Another disaster at the Besna Falls. Who is to blame?"
And you're the sort of fellow to make twice as much next time, or I don't know you. I hope the Besna barrage is to be a success. Yours ever, P.S. Of course you'll understand that now my friend has been thrown overboard it will very likely be my turn next. But I can't leave now to try would rouse suspicion at once. We foreigners have some difficult balancing to do, to escape a fall.
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