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When he had found Winton at the shale-slide, and had given him Miss Carteret's mandate, the Reverend Billy did not return directly to the Rosemary. On the contrary, he extended his tramp westward, stumbling on aimlessly up the canyon over the unsurfaced embankment of the new line. Truth to tell, Virginia's messenger was not unwilling to spend a little time alone with the immensities.
"It's no use shutting our eyes to the fact, Jack," said Adams one evening, when his chief was making ready for his regular descent upon the Rosemary. "We shall have to put night shifts at work on that shale-slide if we hope ever to get past it with the rails." "Hang the shale!" was the impatient rejoinder. "I'm no galley slave." Adams' slow smile came and went in cynical ripplings.
To-night will see the shale-slide conquered definitely, I hope, and three more days of good weather will send us into the Carbonate yards." She broke in upon him with a little cry of impatient despair. "That shows how unwary you have been! Tell me: is there not a little valley just above here an open place where your railroad and Uncle Somerville's run side by side?"
The girl did not answer but sat looking off across the jumbled foothills, rock-studded and gray with sage. Some distance from them a bare shale-slide extended for half a mile along a sidehill, barren and devoid of all vegetation. Here and there, far off across the country, vivid patches on the slopes indicated thickets of willows and birch growing below spring seeps.
Here was defeat possible nay, say rather defeat probable for a rival, with the probability increasing with each hour of delay. Calvert fought it out by length and by breadth a dozen times before he came in sight of the track force toiling at the shale-slide. Should he tell Winton, and so, indirectly, help to frustrate Mr. Darrah's well-laid plan?
I'll do as much for you some time." "I'll be smashed if you will you'll never get the chance. When I let a pretty girl make a fool of me " But the door of the dinkey slammed behind the outgoing one, and the prophet of evil was left to organize his night assault on the shale-slide, and to command it as best he could.
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