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civil aiGitiiut.
BERTRAM MEADE FACES ANOTHER GREAT CRISIS AND
APPARENTLY DESERTS HIS SUPERIOR AT THE
CRITICAL PERIOD
Following the collapse of an International brldgo which his fa
ther, a noted engineer, hud planned, and tlio old man's sudden death
from dlBgraco nnd shock, Bertram Mcnde takes the blame for tho dis
aster which cost many lives and disappears from his homo In New
York. IIo goes to tho southwest, gets a Job under tho name of Hob
crts on an Irrigation dam project and makes good. Meanwhile, Helen
Illlngworlh, Monde's sweetheart, and Rodney, an old friend, are quiet
ly working to clear tho young man's nnino and learn his whereabouts.
They are particularly unxlous to get hold of a letter written by the
elder Mcado to assume responsibility for the uccldent. This paper Is
secretly held by Shurtllff, who had been the old man's devoted private
secretary for many yours. This Installment opens with tho threat of
disaster to the dam through flooding by cloudburst.
CHAPTER XIV. Continued.
Tho lantern was standing on the
roadway on top of tho dam. A man
was kneeling beyond It, his llguro seen
dimly in tho faint light of the lantern.
IIo was staring Intently down the
front of tho dam at the water. Tho
lantern was near tho edge and It faint
ly Illuminated tho black, ralu-lnshed
surface below. Vundevonter realized
with a shock of horror how much more
rapid the rise had been. A quick esti
mate convinced him tlint the level of
tho water was now within eight or nine
feet of the dam and It was still rain
ing I
Tho faco of tho kneeling man was
hidden by a sou'wester nnd he had on
a heavy black rubber raincoat. Van
doventcr reached over and touched
him on the shoulder.
"What ure you doing here?" ho
asked.
Tho kneeling man sprang up with an
exclamation. It was Meade. Tho re
lief in Vandevcnter's mind was great
at the recognition.
"I Just ennio out to look at the wa
ter. I couldn't sleep with all that
pounding on the Iron roof of tho quar
ters, so I dressed nnd camo out."
Vandevcntcr opened the slide of his
own lantern and threw the light on the
reservoir.
"It's risen eight or ten feet slnco wo
saw It, and with this rain"
"It's not coming down bo hard as
It was when I first camo out here,"
said Meade. "I "(hlnk you can see It
slackening yourself."
"Yes," said tho resident engineer,
listening n moment, "I bcllevo It Is. If
it stops now," ho continued thought
fully, "wo ought to bo safe."
"Yes, I think so," answered Meade.
In tho night alone, together In that
crisis In their fortunes, tho two men
wero Interchanging thoughts and Ideas
on terms of perfect equality. It did
not occur to Vandevcnter to question
why, and that they wero doing so
aroused no surprise In tho mind of
Meade.
"Of course," continued Meade, "even
If It does stop raining we'll contlnuo
to get a lot of runoff from tho water
shed for some time."
"Yes," said tho resident engineer,
"that of course, but If tho rain stops
everywhere we can scarcely have a
rise of more than Ave or six feet, and
that would still bo a Uttlo below tho
spillway."
"It's stopping hero now," pointed out
Meade, and, ludced, tho force of tho
downpour was greatly diminished.
Tho two stood watching the dam nnd
tho black lako beyond It In silence for
a few moments until tho rain practical
ly ceused. Tho air was misty and heavy
with moisture, but tho rain was cer
tainly over for the time at any rate.
"Thank goodness," said tho resident
engineer In great relief. "Now If It's I
stopped everywhere we'll bo all right."
"Yes," said Meade, "and I'm inclined
to think it has stopped everywhere.
Whoever thought It would ruin In Jan
uary here 7 There hasn't a drop, to
speak of, fallen In January for twenty
years, or elnco there havo been any
records. Why In heaven's namo It
bad to como now I don't see."
"Look here, Roberts," said Vande
vcntcr suddenly, "you know you'ro a
first-class engineer."
Meado shook his head.
"You can't fool me," said tho older
man. "I'vo watched you. You know
more about tho garao than anybody
hero except myself. You don't chooso
to confide In me, although I Uko you,
and I am In a position to help you."
"I appreciate what you say, Mr. Van
deventcr," returned tho other; "there
la no ono to whom I should rather tell
the wholo story than to you, but I
can't not yet,"
"Well, keep your own counsel, but
If you over want a friend, count on me :
meanwhile, as a man of experience and
ability, what would you do?"
"Get out tho men and build up a
temporary dam on tho top of tho road
way hero, to turn tho flow over to tho
east bank and make tho spillway do
more work."
"But tho rain has stopped."
" "And in all probability will stay
topped still you never can tell. A
few more hours of rain Uko that we've
bad and the wholo thing would go. If
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corYllcm by rumns . nrrcii. oortnw
the water were as high as tho top
there'd only be two feet of head in the
uncompleted spillway, and that,
wouldn't be enough to discharge It at
tho rate it's been coming In."
"Of course," said Vaudeventer
thoughtfully. "And If the dam goes,"
ho added, "there are ten miles of bock
water up there and millions of cubic
yards Impounded, which would sweep
down the valley. There wouldn't bo
a thing left of tho camp, tho town, tho
new railroad bridge, or anything else."
"Coming on top of tho International,
the loss of this big and expensive via
duct would about finish the Martlet
company," said Meado thoughtlessly.
Vandeventer looked at him sharply.
An Idea suddenly camo to him. Meade
had turned away his head as ho real
ized his slip, so ho did not observe tho
light in Vandeventer's eyes. However,
tho resident engineer was a good sort.
"You are right," ho said quickly. "I
hate to call out tho men, but we've got
a Httlo chance, now tho rain has
stopped, and wo can work to advantage
In spite of nil this awful mud" he lift
ed his foot up nnd disclosed it caked
nnd clogged with masses. "I'll take
chargo In the center here, and Stafford
on tho left, nnd I'm going to give-you
charge of tho east end of the dam, over
by tho spillway. If only those drills
had been here sir weeks ago."
"Wo might set the men to work on
that rock now," said Meade.
"It would bo useless. There's too
much of it. No, if we're going to savo
tho dam, we've got to build It up undf
try to keep ahead of the waters If
they rlso any more. The higher wo
can build It tho greater will be tho
head on tho splllwuy, and tho more
will bo discharged. I'll turn tho men
out at once."
"But what are you going to do?"
Tin going to pallsado tho top of the
dam. There's plenty of timber already
cut down, and wo will cut a lot of
young pines and build a pallsado wall
of timber across the top three or four
feet buck from tho edge. Well banked
on tho downstreum side, It may hold."
"It might be worth whllo to lino that
palisade with galvanized Iron sheets
from tho houses." said Meade.
"A good Idea," said Vandeventer,
"and we'll pllo what underbrush and
small stuff we havo In front of the
palisade and heap what rocks we can
find on top of that, and wo'U bank It
up on tho other side with earth. It's a
poor dependence, but It will hold for a
whllo anyway, and every moment of
tlmo may bo precious." "
"How about sandbags, Blr?"
"We've got a 'few hundred cement
bugs, but not enough. I wish wo had
a few thousand; however, wo will fill
what wo have, and If the water rises
and begins to trickle over the top and
through tho palisade, we'll Jam thoso
down at tho danger points. Can you
suggest anything more?"
"Nothing."
"Good. We'll turn out the men.
They've had six hours' sleep anyway."
CHAPTER XV.
The Battle.
It was now threo o'clock In tho
morning. In about half an hour the
men, naturally grumkllng and protest
ing at being deprived of any of their
sleep, were out nnd at work. Lanterns
wero lighted everywhere. The rain
had fortunately not resumed, nnd tho
air was soon filled with nolso nnd con
fusion. Men with axes wero busy on
tho hlllsldo cutting tho young pines.
Horses were hitched to tho dump wag
ons, the steam shovel began tearing
away tho hillside. Some of tho men
were detailed to knock down some
of tho galvanized iron houses and tho
battering of the hammers on tho metal
added to tho din.
Under Vaudoventer's personal direc
tion a row ef stakes was driven into
tho top of tho dam about threo feet
from tho front of it. Big sheets of
overlapping galvanized Iron wero
nailed roughly to tho fronts of tho
firmly bedded stakes and tho small
branches and brushwood wero thrown
down before It. Bowlders and big
stones were carried out on tho dnm In
tho wagons nnd thrown down on the
brushwood; spare timbers, broken
wagon beds, old wheels, joists of dis
membered houses were driven into the
earth to servo as braces behind the
pallsado; n bank of earth was piled
up behind It, on which evjry man who
could be spared from other tasks, even
the chiefs themselves, labored with
breathless energy. Tho water was still
rising, although tho rain had stopped;
the natural drainage would causo that,
but the rlso was slower.
At dawn Vandeventer personally
carefully measured the depth of the
water nnd gauged It again. It was a
scant six nnd a half feet below the top
of tho dam. If the water rose above
the top It was gravely questionable
whether the pallsado would hold It at
all, yet there was no other way of In
creasing tho depth of the spillway
enough to discharge the flood volume.
Working as hard as they could, they
had barely succeeded in raising the
earth bank back of It a foot high.
They kept at It unremittingly, although
It did not seem to be of much use.
Vandeventer, Stafford and Meado gath
ered together and scanned tho sky,
seeking to discern tho signs of the
time, the purpose of the heavens. It
was clearer in the east. The clouds to
the northwestward wero In violent ac
tion apparently. Lightning flashed
through them and over tho grent range
Itself; low, muttered penis of thunder
came down from the peaks lost to sight
In the blackness overhcud. They ob
served all this carefully and Vande
venter turned away, shaking his head.
"I don't know," ho began tho three
of them wero over on the east side
tho better to sec up the valley "It
looks pretty bad, doesn't it?"
"It docs," answered Meade, while
Stafford nodded his head.
"And, by the way, Stafford, have you
notified the town and tho bridge people
of tho danger nnd bid them prepare
for it?"
"I tried to telephone them a while
ago, but the connection has been bro
ken ; tho storm has played havoc with
the line probably," answered tho as
sistant engineer.
"Well, what did you do then?" asked
Vandeventer a little Impatiently.
"I sent a man down on horseback In
a hurry to warn them that If It rains
agalu the dam might go, and if it did
It would go with a rush ; that tho water
was now only six feet below tho level,
nnd that they had better get up on the
hills. Of course, last night's rain must
have made tho road almost impassable,
but ho ought to get there by nlno
o'clock. I told him to tell tho Martlet
people to take whatever steps they
could dcvlso to hold their viaduct and
their machinery," answered Stafford,
as ho turned and walked toward his
own part of the dam.
"Good," exclaimed Vandeventer.
"There's nothing left for us to do but
keep on."
Tho resident engineer looked whlto
and haggard. Although It was cold
and raw In tho wet air, ho wiped the
sweat from his forehead.
"The men are doing splendidly, sir,"
said Meade.
"Yes," suld Vandeventer, "many of
them have their wives and children
back In tho town. Some of the Ital
ians havo bought land on the prairie
and are going to settle here. They're
fighting for everything they've got on
earth. What do you think of tho
chances of this pallsado of ours?"
Mcado shook his head.
"It's all wo can do, sir, but If tho
water rises -more than seven or eight
feet"
"Sny it," suld Vandeventer.
"Tho dam would go Uko a houso of
cards."
"Exactly. And look at that cloud
bank over there in the northwest. It's
spreading."
"What wind there Is," said Mendc,
moistening his finger nnd holding It
up to feel tho direction, "Is blowing
the opposite way down here, but you
cun't tell what Is happening up there.
Well, all we cun do Is to fight on."
And fight they did. It was almost at
first sight like the hand of man against
tho hand of God. There was no more
room for engineering expedient. It
was chop and hew, break and pound,
A Man Was Kneeling Beyond It
dig nnd drive, carry and pile. Throw
ing oft his coat, Vandeventer seized a
spado and began to work Uko any
other laborer, and the rest of tho
higher men followed his exumnle.
At sir o'clock tho blackness hanging
In tho northwest began to turn their
wny. It was comtng down tho moun
tain. It was headed for tho valley.
Vandeventer saw it, every teamster,
every common laborer saw It. It was
coming. Unless heaven Itself Inter
fered there would bo more rain. They
had worked desperately before, but
now they applied themselves to their
tasks with a kind of wild fury. A
sort of insanity took possession of
them. They would not bo beaten. They
cried, at first shrilly and .then hoarsely
and raucously, encouraging words nnd
phrases from ono to unothcr; in words
vivid, profane, desperate. They stood
there and they heaved and dug nnd
piled and hammered nnd hurled and
drove fiercely. It was a battlo mad
ness that came Into them. They saw
red like tho berserker of old. Yes, It
was not unlike a battle In other .ways,
for with tho rush of tho northwest
storm camo roaring mighty thunder
and vivid and terrifying lightning. It
was as If great darts of light literally
were hurled by some gigantic hand be-
vflfllBSiuk SEjoZBflH
And Shook His Flat at the Sky.
hind the black screen of sweeping
cloud down upon the grnnlto moun
tains. They saw splinters of Are where
the thunderbolts struck. Tho pealing
of thunder was appalling.
Their frail palisade bucking was not
half completed. It must be raining
somewhere, for the water was still
slowly rising. It was five and a half
feet now from tho crest. It was hope
less If another rain fell, and the rain
was coming. There wns an added chill
In tho still air of tho valley as tho
storm drovo down upon them. A few
of the fainter hearts flung down pick
nnd shovel and nx and stood craven.
Oaths, curses, blows even, from those
of tho braver sort shamed them Into
work again. These bravo hearts and
true might bo swept awny "with tho
dam if It gave way, but they would
not give up, und no man working with
them should fleo bis task or shirk his
duty. By the living God, whose sport
and plaything they seemed to be, they
swore It; and so weak and strong,
bold and timid labored on desper
ate, resolved, godlike In their cour
age and persistence.
The clouds were moving swiftly
now. To the east It had been clear,
but now It was also black, and then
with a roar greater even than
a thousand thunderclaps, the wind
tore down the mountains, through the
narrow canyons, into tho valleys,
shrieking In tho pines, and fell upon
them and hurled them down and
brushed them back. And after the
wind, the rain. A drop or two struck
Vandevuuter's cheek; another, anoth
er, and then tho flood. Ho lifted his
head and stared and shook his fist at
the sky and turned to the human ter
mites ho commanded.
"Carry on, carry on, boys," ho cried,
shrieking to bo heard above the thun
der peals, "we'll beat It yet."
A cheer roso about him and was
caught up and ran along the top of
the great dam. The liulf-mnnlucul yell
was such a cry as men might give
vent to in tho heut of battle, the ex
citement of wild charge, and then they
fell to it ngnln. Tho more Ignorant,
unuware of tho feebleness of the pali
sade, tho more knowing Indifferent to
It, seeing only tho Job, alike realized
only their duty to fight on, to answer
the appeal to their manhood, to refuse
to admit defeat even when life trem
bled In the balance.
Yes, to use the ancient simile again,
the fountains of tho great deep wero
broken open. What had befallen them
before was nothing to this. The hard
rain of the night seemed trifling com
pared to this avalunchc of water. This
wus a cloudburst Indeed. And to
mnke It worse, to make their tusk
harder, to render their efforts useless,
tho high wind roaring down tho valley
piled tho water up and drovo It In
thunderous assaulting waves against
tho great mound of earth on which tho
men struggled and labored frantically.
Vandeventer, shovel in hand ho did
not dare to throw It down, lest his ac
tion bo misconstrued went from gang
to gang, from man to man, talking to
them, appealing to them, pointing out
weaknesses hero and there, Inspiring
them, holding them up as a man might
hold a stricken lino against tho on
slaught of a victorious and overwhelm
ing force. And against wind and rain
In that thick darkness, blinded by tho
flashing lightning, stunned by tho peal
ing thunder, with zeal superhuman
they tolled on and on and on.
Back and forth went the chief, show
ing himself a leader of leaders, and
wherever ho stopped tho fury and des
peration of tho effort to stem tho tide
Increased. When ho camo plodding
along tho muddy roadway to tho part
committed to Mcado ho did not find
tho engineer.
"Where's Itoberts?" ho yelled above
the nolso of tho storm,
"no and two men havo gone, sir."
"Gone?" cried Vandeventer, cut to
tho heart at what he thought was a
desertion. "Well," he Bhouted, realiz
ing there was nothing bo could do then
and that he bad neither breath doc
time to waste, "there's more need for
the rest of us to take their places."
Ho drew a man or two from the
other gangs to rc-enforco this danger
point and himself directed their work.
Now it takes time for water to rlso
five feet, even in n cloudburst or n
succession of them. Tho rain constant
ly seemed to Increase as the wind
drovo it on. Vandeventer knew that
the dam was doomed, that the slulco
and tho half-finished spillway com
bined could discharge only a small part
of the flow, but ho knew that he would
have two hours at least to work be
fore tho water could pass tho crest,
undermine, aud batter down the pall
sldo and begin to trickle over. Just
as soon ns it did roll over tho too.
mless they could stop it, the wholo
thing was gone. For those two hours
the supermen labored unremittingly In
the downpour with a persistent and he
roic courago that should havo been re
corded In song and story but which
wsb not. It wns remembered nfter
a while by none savo a few. To the
many it wa only "all In tho day's
work I"
The underslulce In the side of tho
dam which would Inter serve ns head
gate for tho canal had been Intended
to pass tho smaller floods which might
occur during tho construction nnd had
been open slnco the rain began. It
carried off a great volurao of water,
but hopelessly little In comparison with
the flood. Foot by foot In the torren
tial downpour the water rose. At half
after eight It reached the level of the
spillway and commenced to rush
through In cver-lncreastng volume, but
tho flow into tho reservoir was far
greater than the spillway's capacity.
Still tho sight of tho rushing water
encouraged the men. Every one of
them felt that If the palisade held the
discharge would be Increased enough
to stop the rise, but at present the ef
fect was small. By nine o'clock it was
within a foot of the top. They began
to measuro Its rlso by Inches. Although
the dam had been carefully kept level
as It was built, tho trample-of horses
and men, tho present digging and pali
sading and revetting had caused little
depressions. Now the water rose to
the level. Here and there It began to
trickle over I
Tho rain coming down from tho
mountain tops was ns cold as Ice, yet
tho men wero In a fever of excitement.
They hnd got their second wind. They
wero too enthused, too desperate, to
feel their weariness. They hnd not
worked before as they did then. It
was the lust possible nervous outburst
with most of them. They could keep
It up a Uttlo longer till they dropped
dcud. As the mad thoroughbred falls
in his stride on tho track, pushed be
yond his power of endurance, as even
the common carthorse can be made to
go until he drops, so these men, white,
haggard, nervous, drawn-faced, sweat
mingling with tho rain on their sodden
bodies, would go till they broke. They
had not quite reached that point yet.
There were some five hundred heavy
cement bags which had been filled with
sand nnd plied up on tho roadway at
convenient points. As a forlorn hope,
as a last try, Vandeventer called all
tho diggers nnd ditchers, nnd hewers
nnd drivers, nnd bade them tackle the
sandbags. The timber wall that roso
to four or five feet wns now packed to
a height of three with an unequal wall
of earth.
Tho waves were beginning to roll
ngalnst the rumpart, although their
force as yet was broken by the brush
wood. Vandeventer jumped up ou the
palisade near the center. There were
some large logs there where he could
stand, and whence he could get as
clear a view of the whole top of the
dam ns was possible through the driv
ing rain.
"There," shouted the engineer, point
ing to n red trickle It seemed to him
like blood, taking its hideous hue
from the red clny of the bnnks where
the water had found a low spot nnd
was washing across tho top aud
trickling through tho new wall and
down on tho other side. Even us he
pointed, tho trickle became a stream
nnd tho stream bndc fair to be a flood.
Men ran nnd dropped sandbags over
In front of the palisade, right where
the leak had occurred. Other men
heaped up the earth behind tho wull,
seeking to smother It nnd stop It. The
water checked there, they wero forced
to do tho samo thing nt another place.
Desperately they dropped their sand
bags, sturdily they plied their shovels
In tho mud; scrambling nnd yelling,
they ran from leak to leak. They lift
ed the heavy bngs of sand as If they
hud been loaves of bread and jammed
them down. They swung pick nnd
shovel Uko toys, although tho rain
mndo all the eurth sticky mud and
the work all tho harder. Tho water
was clear over tho top of tho dnm now,
nnd streaming through tho revetment
of brush nnd surging ngalnst tho pali
sade. Where it did not let tho water
through, tho lino of stakes was begin
ning to bend backward.
Tho men who hud expended their
sandbags nnd could get no more, In
one final effort ran to tho palisade, dug
their heels madly in tho wet, slimy
earth and put their shoulders against
tho bending stakes ns If to hold them
up by main strength. Thin streums
wero flowing hero and there, now un
heeded. Checked and held In one spot,
tho wuter broke through at another.
The spillway could not control tho
rise.
"She's gone, she's gone I" gasped
Vandeventer under his breath. Ho had
fought a good fight Ho could do no
more. There were no moro bugs of
sand. Savo for tho men straining at
tho wall hero and there nnd every
where, there was left nothing but to
stand and wait, having dono all. As
one man saw another the whole hun
dred and fifty caught tho contagion
and threw themselves against the pali
sade, wet nnd chilled from the rain,
but yet madly, recklessly, Americans
and foreigners alike. They would hold
It by main strength for nnothcr mln
utc, they swore, oblivious to the fact
that Just ns soon as It went It would
go with a rush.
The stockade would be swept away
first, and they would go with it. -What
of that? Tho men back of it matched
their brawny arms against rain and
wind, the powers of man against the
Dowers of God. but not mockinelr. It
is perhaps doubtful if they realized
what they did. It was Instinct, habit,
blind desperation now. If the flimsy
wall failed under tho terrific wntnr
pressure, they would be hurled beneath'
it swept down the slope of the dan,
burled in the debris as it was swept
awuy, caught up If they by nnv ehanea
survived so fnr, nnd hurled, broken nnd
battered, down the valley In the tcr
rlblo flood that would ensue. What
did they know about that, or knowing,
what did they core, as they strained
nt tho wavering timber wall? And
still they held ns the rain Dourcd down
on them, soaking through their soggy
ciotnes, tno colder on their exhausted
bodies for the keen wind that blew
ucross them.
Well, they had dono everything they
could. Vandeventer Jumped down and
pressed himself ngalnst tho nearest
timber with the men nnd waited, silent
Ho had never sustained such a pres
sure in all his life. Like Atlas, ba
felt as If he wero holdlnsr nn wnrlif.
Aud the mocking thing about it all
was his feeling, nay his realization,
that he was not really holding any
thing, that If tho palisades failed, his
pressure, his resistance and that of all
tho other men amounted to nothing.
Yet he held on, nnd they, too demV
gods.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Ancient Art of Fascination.
And much of the last wild hurricane
of work took place under tho observa
tion of u woman 1
From the top of the big mesa there
wns n clenr view of tho new reservoir,
from the dam on ono side fur back Into
the hills on the other. In spite of
the tremendous downpour and the
fierce gale Helen Illlngworth stood ex
posed to both attacks, and, Indeed, in-
different to them albeit protected bySj
slicker and boots and sou'wester fas- H
clnntcd by the titanic struggle between
nature and man of which she was 0
witness.
The general Investigation by Rodney
and Miss Illlngworth had produced
Mil
iiiiBMHV
Helen Illlngworth Stood Exposed to
Both Attacks.
no results. A careful study of Rod
ney's notes upon the subject hnd only
served the moro thoroughly to convince
them that Meado was blameless. But
the most assiduous effort with the
heartiest wilt in tho world nnd the'
promptings of devotion and affection
could not make a case out of these
suggestions and their Inferences that
Would hold water. They could not es
tablish their contention beyond perad
venture In tho face of Meade's direct
admission and Shurtllft's corrobora
tion. They could not establish It in the
public mind by any cvldenco at all If
Meado and Shurtllff remained silent
If cither ono or tho other of tho two
conspirators could bo brought to tell
tho truth, Mcado could bo restored, at
least sufficiently so for tho purposo of
nrgument; tho argument that Helen
Illlngworth sooner or Inter must mako
to her father. It was that to which sho
gave the most thought, It was for that
sho planned and longed.
Two people cannot resolve, even by
mutual consent to dismiss from their
dally thought nnd conversation any
subject whatsoever without Introduc
ing In pluco of it a certain constraint
It is as futilo to attempt to dismiss
anything absolutely from the human
mind ns Is tho oft-suggested cure for
rheumatism doing certain things
without thinking of tho dlseaso sought
to bo cured I
The next Installment brings
the climax of tho story. The
most Important developments In
the lives of Meade and his
friends are described.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Old Stuff.
"A scientist cun take one bono and
reconstruct a dinosaur."
"That's nothing. Our landlady can
tako ono bone and reconstruct a din
ner." Louisville Courier-Journal.
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