CHAPTER V



Illustration [Map of the Elevator site]


It was nearly five o'clock when Bannon appeared at the elevator on
Thursday. He at once sought Peterson.

"Well, what luck did you have?" he asked. "Did you get my message?"

"Your message? Oh, sure. You said the cribbing was coming down by boat. I
don't see how, though. Ledyard ain't on the lake."

"Well, it's coming just the same, two hundred thousand feet of it. What
have you done about it?"

"Oh, we'll be ready for it, soon's it gets here."

They were standing at the north side of the elevator near the paling fence
which bounded the C. & S. C. right of way. Bannon looked across the tracks
to the wharf; the pile of timber was still there.

"Did you have any trouble with the railroad when you took your stuff
across for the spouting house?" he asked.

"Not much of any. The section boss came around and talked a little, but we
only opened the fence in one place, and that seemed to suit him."