There couldn't be any supposing;--there isn't any
now. It's just you I love, Ruth,--you,--and I love the 'YOU' in
you--That's the best part of you."
And so they talked on, she close in his arms, their cheeks
together; building castles of rose marble and ivory, laying out
gardens with vistas ending in summer sunsets; dreaming dreams that
lovers only dream,
CHAPTER XXIV
The check "struck" MacFarlane just as the chairman had said it
would, wiping out his losses by the flood with something ahead for
his next undertaking.
That the verdict was a just one was apparent from the reports of
both McGowan's and the Railroad Company's experts. These showed
that the McGowan mortar held but little cement, and that not of
the best; that the backing of the masonry was composed of loose
rubble instead of split stone, and that the collapse of his
structure was not caused by the downpour, but by the caving in of
culverts and spillways, which were built of materials in direct
violation of the provisions of the contract.
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