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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Is the right-of-way dispute progressing?" said Magdalen to her father as the two men came up and stopped in front of them. Colonel Bellairs implied that it would shortly be arranged, as his intellect was being applied to the subject.
She was thawing in the sunshine of love, and I'll do Doctor Jones the justice to say that he didn't hide his affection under a bushel. It was generous enough for everybody to bask in, and in his pell-mell ardor he took us all to his bosom. The women loved him for it, and entered into a tacit conspiracy to gain him the right-of-way to wherever Eleanor was to be found.
I've planted shots at various places along our right-of-way and I'll set 'em off when it suits me. If you're so anxious to go up-river, why don't you cross over to the moraine? There's a much better trail on that side. You'll find better walking a few miles farther up, and you'll run no danger of being hurt." "I intend to run a survey along this hillside." "There isn't room; we beat you to it."
As you know, the Pacific Southwestern inherits, from the old narrow-gauge purchase, the right-of-way over Plug Pass and down the valley of the Pannikin. Frisbie wires that the Transcontinental people have begun massing building material at the terminus of their Saguache branch, only twenty miles from the Pass." "And that means? I'm lame on geography."
"I'm chainman with the Rutland party, out from North Bay on a topographical survey. We're taking a new mileage and mapping the right-of-way. Our van's on the second siding above here." This unexpected "vacation" had come about quite simply.
He amended his original survey so that it crossed that of the S. R. & N. midway between the lower bridge over the Salmon River and the glaciers, and at that point began the hasty erection of a grade. It was at the cost of no little inconvenience that he rushed forward a large body of men and supplies, and began to lay track across the S. R. & N. right-of-way.
When my Day comes I'll strike you without mercy I'll beat you to the earth if it's in my power!" It was fully night before they were able to get right-of-way into the yards, and Kate drew a deep breath of relief when the grinding wheels finally stopped.
Mannering' he pointed to the map 'this is a right-of-way, and you can't turn me out. 'All the same, sir, you are on my property, said the Squire hotly, 'and a right-of-way only means a right of passing through. I should be much obliged if you would hurry yourself a little. The other laughed. He was a slim fellow, apparently about thirty, in a fresh, well-cut, serge suit.
"It makes you think of singers making harmony together in a great open space. I'd like to know the man who made the selections," he concluded. "What kind of a windfall?" she asked. "A real one. Pullman travelers sometimes prop their windows open with books. You can see the window-mark on the cover of this one. I found it two miles out, beside the right-of-way.
The bartender stopped in his labor of rubbing down the surface of his bar and stared at the black-serge robe of the stranger, with curiosity rather than criticism, for women, madmen, and clergymen have the right-of-way in the mountain-desert. He said: "Well, I'll be damned! askin' your pardon. So old Mart Ryder has come down to this, eh?
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