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They have to send their man over By the way," he queried, struck with a new idea, "how long have you been driving piles?" "Since about three o'clock." "Six hours," computed Thorpe. "I wish you'd come for me sooner." He cast his eye rapidly over the men. "I don't know just who to send. There isn't a good enough woodsman in the lot to make Siscoe Falls through the woods a night like this.
Immediately above the first rollways was Dam Three with its two wide sluices through which a veritable flood could be loosened at will; then four miles farther lay the rollways of Sadler & Smith, the up-river firm; and above them tumbled over a forty-five foot ledge the beautiful Siscoe Falls; these first rollways of Thorpe's spread in the broad marsh flat below the dam contained about eight millions; the rest of the season's cut was scattered for thirty miles along the bed of the river.
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