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The Road Builders

The Road Builders

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The Road-Builders

BY

SAMUEL MERWIN

AUTHOR OF “THE MERRY ANNE,”
JOINT AUTHOR OF “CALUMET ‘K,’” “THE SHORT LINE WAR,” ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
F. B. MASTERS

TORONTO
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
1910

Copyright, 1905,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1905.
Reprinted April, 1906.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO MY LITTLE SON

NOTE

A part of this story was printed serially in The Saturday Evening Post under the title, “A Link in the Girdle.”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
I. Young Van engages a Cook 1
II. Where the Money came From 22
III. At Mr. Carhart’s Camp 37
IV. Jack Flagg sees Stars 66
V. What They found at the Water-hole 97
VI. The Road to Total Wreck 138
VII. The Spirit of the Job 185
VIII. Shots—and a Scouting Party 219
IX. A Show-down 246
X. What took Place at Red Hills 293

ILLUSTRATIONS

‘There,’ he cried, ... ‘there, boys! That means Red Hills or bust’ Frontispiece
  FACING PAGE
‘It’s all I have a right to give anybody’ 74
‘Eighty cents,’ he muttered, ‘and for how much work?’ 80
‘Well,’ began the boss, looking him over, ‘what kind of a cook are you?’ 98
Wonderfully they held the pace 114
They went on in this way for nearly an hour 120
‘Look here, Tiffany,’ Carhart began, ‘something’s going to happen to this man Peet’ 142
‘You go back to your quarters’ 208
... this trestle structure which was slowly crawling, like some monster centipede, across the sands of the La Paz 240
The cigarette dropped from Antonio’s unnerved fingers 244
Charlie had not raised his revolver,—the muzzle still rested easily on the sill,—but it was pointing straight at Jack Flagg’s heart 310

THE ROAD-BUILDERS

CHAPTER I
YOUNG VAN ENGAGES A COOK

The S. & W. was hoping some day to build a large station with a steel and glass trainshed at Sherman. Indeed, a side elevation of the structure, drawn to scale and framed in black walnut, had hung for a number of years in the private office, away down east, of President Daniel De Reamer. But that was to come in the day when Sherman should be a metropolis; at present the steel of which it was to be constructed still lay deep in the earth, unblasted, unsmelted, and unconverted; and the long, very dirty train which, at the time this narrative opens, was waiting to begin its westward journey, lay exposed to the rays of what promised to be, by noon, the hottest sun the spring had so far known. The cars were of an old, ill-ventilated[Pg 1]
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