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I'd better be traipsing back to bed right now, because, you see, I'm only half dressed and it's chilly." "Good. I'll see you to the house, because I've got to walk home, now that my wheel has gone up the flume," remarked Frank. "What's the matter with you using mine?" demanded the other. "That plug you put in holds dandy, and there's nothing the matter with it right now.
The willows go as far as the stream goes, and a bit farther on the slightest provocation. They will strike root in the leak of a flume, or the dribble of an overfull bank, coaxing the water beyond its appointed bounds. Given a new waterway in a barren land, and in three years the willows have fringed all its miles of banks; three years more and they will touch tops across it.
He knew that the lever locking the mill- wheel had been opened, and that Jean Jacques had his hand on the lever which raised the gate of the flume. By instinct for there was no time for thought he did the only thing which could help him, he made a swift gesture to Jean Jacques, a gesture that bade him wait. Time was his only friend in this one minute, two minutes, three minutes, anything.
There was blasting to be done upon the rugged wall of the cañon, there were tall pines bunched in groves, many of which must come down before the flume could be completed or the ditch made. And men with axes and crowbars and giant powder were set to their tasks. Everywhere he went the Lark dogged his heels, listening intently to the orders which his superior gave him.
The materials he should require the lumber for the great flume which was to turn the water from the weir into the cut which was to be made across the spine of the ridge separating Deep Creek from the wider cañon through which Indian Creek shot down upon the uplands of the Half Moon, the kegs of giant powder, the horses and implements he had brought with him or had conveyed hither yesterday from Crawfordsville.
An' then, all of a sudden, she gives a whoopin' big jump right off the top o' the boat, an' over the side o' the flume she goes, her strings all a-singin' like mad, an' sailin' down four hundred feet. Jud had a holt of her before she dropped, an' if I hadn't 'a' grabbed him he'd 'a' gone over, too.
We put in a flume between two falls on the Middle Fork, but made only wages, and I got my arm nearly broken, and had to work with one hand for nearly a month.
He passed on, swung into the little-used trail which brought him first to the McKittrick cabin where a double-barrelled shot-gun six months ago had brought Bill Royce his blindness; then to the lumber-camp a mile further on. Both were on the bank of Packard's Creek; the flume constructed by Joe Woods's men followed the line of the stream.
With sudden emotion she held out her arms, and her face flushed with passion and longing. The tempest which shook her shook him also, and he swayed from side to side like an animal uncertain if the moment had come to try its strength with its foe; and in truth the man was fighting with himself. His moments with Jean Jacques at the flume had expanded him in a curious kind of way.
Hang that girl! Get a good brace now. Gimminy, look at that water run!" They were on the very brink, as he spoke; and, even as he muttered the last exclamation, the canoe dipped to the incline of the chute and went darting down its smooth surface. They hardly saw the sides of the flume as they shot by.
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