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Fatalist Vision and a Bridge Built to Last
In a Paris hotel, electrical engineer Robert Chane boasts of a giant cantilever bridge he built as his epitaph. His friend Donald Blare, a budding journalist, reveals his fate as a Berlin foreign news reporter. A telegram interrupts with grim news: Blandson says the mountain bridge collapsed during construction, ending Chane’s dream of a monumental tomb.
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Robert Chane
Chane
Blare
Bob Pe “Don
Donald Blare
Blaze
Don
Bob
Edison
Lindbergh
Blandson and
Fatal Canyon
Blandson
Smith
Berlin
Milton