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Conrad would return to the city, to the partnership he had dropped only temporarily to be near her; and her father would have enough for the rest of his days. A week or two to test the success of their latest effort, another to build the permanent foundations and strengthen the trestle in its final shape, and then a few weeks at most for the fill-in.
But upo' the ither han' there's ae thing it's eesed for by some, 'at canna be considert a richt eese to mak o' 't: there's ae wull tribe in America they tell me o', 'at ait a hantle o' 't and that's a thing I cannot un'erstan'; for it diz them, they say, no guid at a', 'cep, maybe, it be jist to fill-in the toom places i' their stammacks, puir reid craturs, and haud their ribs ohn stucken thegither and maybe that's jist what they ait it for!
Though he had seen a little of the rehearsals, he had not yet acquired any notion of Cleo's abilities, for she had been busy directing and criticising, simply reading her part as a "fill-in." He had all along taken it for granted that she must be a great actress. At his most despondent moments he had never doubted that, simply because it had never occurred to him to doubt it.
About forty miles an hour, with just a board and a tremendous sputter between you and the flying rails. It makes your hair curl, yet you look forward to the next time." Lightly as he spoke, he had risen to his feet and gone to the doorway. "Some of the big moguls of construction, I suppose," he shouted back above the echoing din. "Perhaps to pass on Torrance's trestle before the fill-in commences.
And from the shadows moved one solitary Indian and his squaw, one inoffensive little broncho, one great mongrel Russian wolf hound. "Phew!" breathed the Indian, as he snapped his rifle shut and reached up to fondle the horse's ears. Big Jim Torrance sighed happily. He was thinking of the orders he had issued for the commencement of the fill-in.
"In less than that," he said fervently, "I hope we'll be back in Medicine Hat. Torrance is giving orders to start the fill-in, and there won't be more than two or three weeks after that. Truth to tell, there are lots of other reasons than home that make me want to get out of it in a hurry.
Riddel, Robert Ainslie, and Robert Graham, afford valuable lights and shades to the outline, and with numerous others, help to a touch here, and fill-in there, of poet and poems. There are suspicions, it is true, of "the Genteel Letter-Writer," with scraps and words from "the Manual of French Quotations," and, in the love-letters, some hollow mouthings.
And at its heels, obedient as sheep, were Torrance's two horses. Six hundred yards of open trestle before the fill-in at the other side! Mahon held his breath. . . . "Mother o' Mike!" The horses had trotted out to safety, and Murphy was capering gleefully about. Mahon rushed to the corner of the shack and looked about. The Indian was nowhere in sight.
Don't you know you're due at the gravel pit in less than two hours? That fill-in commences to-day no matter what's happened." But Murphy was already far up the grade, brandishing his shillalah and shouting at the top of his voice: "'Uggins! 'Uggins! I'm coming." Inspector Barker drummed on his desk. "Bert, of the 3-bar-Y, has turned up, Priest tells me."
They passed on the 9th a huge bergstrom, with a drop of about 70 feet from the flat surface of the Barrier. Joyce thought that a big crevasse had caved in. "We took some photographs," wrote Joyce. "It is a really extraordinary fill-in of ice, with cliffs of blue ice about 70 feet high, and heavily crevassed, with overhanging snow-curtains.
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