WEB OF STEEL CHAPTER XVII CONTINUED
The girl expresses doubt about a worker's status and suspects he is not at the site. Winters points to the dam and plans a morning search. Rodney questions the plan while the woman seeks to speak directly to the worker, hoping Shurtliff will speak first to enable contact.
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Winters
Rodney
Shurtliff
Rod
Meade
George
confrontation at the ranch car ends in tense standstill
Rodney presses Shurtliff to confess using papers as proof while Winters aims to coerce the truth with a gun. Helen Illingworth intervenes, calms the scene, and Shurtliff departs with a wary bow. Rodney and Winters reflect on the danger and a hopeful plan to win Meade's release.
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Rodney
Winters
Mr. Rodney
Helen Illingworth
Mr. Shurtliff
Bertram Meade
Mr. Winters
Miss Illingworth
Shurtliff
Bert Meade
The Battle From Above On the Picket Wire Dam
In a rain halted morning Colonel Mlingworth and companions plan a mesa crossing toward the dam. Helen Illingworth, Rodney, Winters, and Shurtliff face rising storms while engineers rush to shore up the dam as a flood threat looms.
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Mlingworth
Severence
Curtiss
Helen
Rodney
Winters
Tilingworth
Shurtliff
Miss Illingworth
Picket Wire
Meade
Helen Illingworth
Illingworth
Baldwin’s Knob
Father
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