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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
3
Bertram Meade abandons his old life and travels into unfamiliar lands to pursue a new career. Shortliff transfers control of the estate and warns secrecy as Meade seeks rest at Grst. Helen Mitagworth consoles him at the grave, offering hope for love despite impending separation.
Bertram Meade, a downtrodden engineer, lands a job as rodman under the hard-nosed chief engineer Vandeventer at the Picket Wire dam project near Coronado. The tale follows his initiation via a test on the dam edge and his entry into the coveted engineering corps amid a boom sparked by a grand irrigation scheme.
After the bridge collapse and the inquest into his father’s death, Uortram Meade contemplates suicide and exile. He swears to leave Helen Flingworth untrammeled, plans a move to the West, and seeks solace with friend Dick Winters while wrestling with his sense of failure and desire for rehabilitation.
A man of Meade's ability will soon find a place for him yet in any environment, and so it with the young engineer. His new start in life is described in the next installment.
A jumbled OCR fragment describes a local theater moment with a girl by a powdery surface and a whispering child noting a fly on the scene. The text references a powerful spotlight and a curious, uncertain crowd around the action.
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