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The White Desert

CHAPTER XII
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The Mountain, Plains and Salt Lake Railroad.

I thought you knew all about it." "The one that's tunneling Carrow Peak?
I've heard about the road, but I didn't know they were ready for bids for the western side of the mountain yet.

Where's the notice ?" "Right on your desk, sir." Abstractedly, Houston picked it up and glanced at the specifications,--for railroad ties by the million, for lumber, lathes, station-house material, bridge timbers, and the thousands of other lumber items that go into the making of a road.

Hastily he scanned the printed lines, only at last to place it despondently in a pocket.
"Millions of dollars," he murmured.

"Millions--for somebody!" And Houston could not help feeling that it was for the one man he hated, Fred Thayer.


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