Meade's Silent Rise On Dam Project Of South West
Bertram Meade assumes the alias Roberts after a bridge collapse blamed on his engineer father. He excels at the Picket Wire dam site while Helen Illingworth and Rodney seek to prove his innocence and recover a key letter. Meade earns trust by handling a transit instrument, stirring suspicion about his past as he advances through the ranks.
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Great Bridge
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New York
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Rodsey
Woolney
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Africa
South America
Spanish Mesa
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Kneb
Vandeventer
The
International
Peither
Villey
Picket Wire
Kicking Horse
Mr. Vandeventer
Old Vandeventer
Cambridge
Lawrence Scientific School
Packer
Himmself
Roberta
Stafford
Former and the Latter Rain dam work progress
Chapter XIV describes rapid dam construction under Vandeventer with Meade rising as a trusted lieutenant. Vandeventer leads a disciplined, skilled corps of teamsters and workers, forming a formidable, ready army amid the intense effort. Meade impresses by quickly mastering operations and manpower management.
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Vandeventer
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Dam Work Faces Sudden Flood Threat At Night
Vandeventer and Meade supervise a major dam project as heavy rains raise reservoir levels beyond expected safety margins. A night inspection reveals a rival engineer approaching the dam by stealth, heightening tension as spillway capacity and sluice gates strain to prevent a breach.
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Vandeventer
Late Market Quotations and City Reflections in Alexandria
A fragmented page mixes fiction about a mysterious engineer named Roberts with prose on Alexandria past and present. It lists late market quotations for cattle, feed, fruits, vegetables, and butcher products, interspersed with evocative notes on local harbor dredging, cotton prices, and urban progress.
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Cleopatra
Ring Misadventure and Market Prices Snapshot
Marion received a beautiful ring on Christmas Eve and kept shifting it between fingers, prompting her mother to suggest placing it on one hand to avoid losing it. The page also lists diverse commodity and grain prices from Chicago and local markets, including metals, wool, poultry, and cotton goods with scattered figures.
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