That is what he telegraphed me when he lost the coffer-dam in the Susquehanna.
Oh!--he did not really tell you that, did he, Mr.Breen ?" The old anxious note had returned--the one he had heard at the "fill." "Yes--but nothing serious HAS happened, Miss Ruth," Jack persisted, his voice rising in the intensity of his conviction, his earnest, truthful eyes fixed on hers--"nothing that will not come out all right in the end.

Please, don't be worried, I know what I am talking about." "Oh, yes, it is serious," she rejoined with equal positiveness.

"You do not know daddy.

Nothing ever discourages him, and he meets everything with a smile--but he cannot stand any more losses.

The explosion was bad enough, but if this 'fill' is to be rebuilt, I don't know what will be the end of it.