Produced by Al Haines

THE RAPIDS

BY

ALAN SULLIVAN

AUTHOR OF "THE INNER DOOR," ETC.

THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

TORONTO

Copyright, Canada, 1922, by

THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED

TORONTO, ONTARIO

The Copp Clark Press

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. CLARK DISCOVERS ARCADIA II. ARCADIA WAKES UP III. PHILADELPHIA HEARS ABOUT ARCADIA IV. PRELIMINARIES IN ST. MARYS V. THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA VI. CONCERNING IRON, WOOD AND A GIRL VII. THE BISHOP'S GARDEN PARTY—AND AFTERWARDS VIII. IRON IX. CONCERNING THE APPREHENSION OF CLARK'S DIRECTORS X. CUPIDITY VS. LOYALTY XI. CLARK EXPERIENCES A NEW SENSATION, ALSO HIS DIRECTORS XII. LOVE AND DOUBT XIII. THE VOICE OF THE RAPIDS XIV. AN ANCIENT ARISTOCRAT VISITS THE WORKS XV. CLARK CONVERTS TORONTO XVI. GOLD, ALSO CONCERNING A GIRL XVII. THE GIRL IN THE CANOE XVIII. MATTERS FINANCIAL XIX. THE WEB OF LACHESIS XX. THE CAR OF PROGRESS HALTS XXI. THE CRASH XXII. THE MASTER MIND AT WORK XXIII. CONCERNING THE RIOT XXIV. DESTINY XXV. THE UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT EPILOGUE

THE RAPIDS

I.—CLARK DISCOVERS ARCADIA

Amongst the few who knew Robert Fisher Clark at all well, for therewere not many of them, there was no question as to his beliefs. It wastoo obvious that his primary faith was in himself. Nor is it knownwhether, at any time, he gave any thought or study to the character ofthose with whom, in the course of his remarkably active life, he cameinto association. Always it appeared that there was laid upon him theresponsibility of doing things which did not occur to the ordinary man,and he went about them with such supreme confidence and unremittingenthusiasm that he infused into his followers much of his communicablezeal. It appears now that Clark weighed a man by appraising the degreeto which he contributed to the work in hand, and automatically setaside those whom he considered contributed nothing to his object. Hewas the most unattached personality it is possible to imagine.Whatever passion or reaction he may have experienced was always amatter for him alone, and something that he underwent in the remotenessof an astonishingly exclusive brain. That he experienced them iswithout doubt, but they were revealed in the intensity of action andthe quick resiliency of renewed effort.

It was not known, either, whether he believed in chance, or in thosetiny eventualities which so often impress a definite color onsubsequent years. The trend of his mind was to move forward ratherthan back, and it is questionable if he gave much thought to secondcauses. The fruit dangled before his eye even as he planted the vine,and if this induced in him a certain ruthlessness it could only bebecause those who are caught up in high endeavor to reach the mountaintops must perforce trample many a lowland flower beneath their eagerfeet.

And yet it was chance that brought Clark to St. Marys, chance that heshould be in a certain train at a given time, and above all it waschance that he should overhear a certain conversation, but it was notby any means chance that he should interpret the latter as he did.

The train was lurching over an

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