Day, Holman

It is basically the story of a determined young man, RODNEY PARKER, who built the Rainy Day Railroad, despite the strong (sometimes physical) objections of a determined old man, Colonel Gideon Ward.

В основном это история решительного молодого человека РОДНИ ПАРКЕРА, построившего железную дорогу дождливого дня, несмотря на сильные (иногда физические) возражения решительного старика, полковника Гидеона Уорда. Expand

THE timber situation in the Tomah country was surcharged. When Ward Latisan came upon Rufus Craig, one afternoon in autumn, steel struck flint and trouble’s fuse was lighted. Their meeting was on the Holeb tote road just below Hagas Falls. Young Ward was the grandson of old John, a pioneer who was in his day a saw-log baron of the times of pumpkin pine; by heredity Ward was the foremost champion in the cause of the modern independent operators. In his own way, Craig, the field director of the Comas Consolidated Paper Company, was the chief gladiator for an invading corporation which demanded monopoly of the Tomah timber by absorption of the independents. Latisan tramped down the tote road from the shoulder of Holeb Mountain, where he had been cruising alone for a week on the Walpole tract, blazing timber for the choppers, marking out twitch roads and haul-downs, locating yards; his short-handled ax was in his belt, his lank haversack flapped on his back; he carried his calipers in one h Expand

...He lurched through the door. In that desperate moment, in the whirl of his emotions, there seemed to be no other way out of his horrible predicament. He had grown to love the girl with all the consuming passion of his soul, realizing fully his blind folly at the same time. He had built no false hopes. As to speaking of that love—even betraying it by a glance—he had sheathed himself in the armor of reserved constraint; he had been sure that he sooner would have gone down on his hands and knees and bayed that silver moon from the deck of the yacht Olenia than do what he had just done...

... Он, пошатываясь, вошел в дверь. В тот отчаянный момент, в водовороте своих эмоций, казалось, что другого выхода из его ужасного положения нет. Он полюбил девушку со всей всепоглощающей страстью своей души, в то же вре Expand