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The Desert of Wheat

CHAPTER VII
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"I have four men watching the section." "Good! Say, that car turned off to the right back here some miles....
But, worse luck, the I.W.W.'s can work at night." "We'll watch at night, too," replied Dorn.
Lenore was conscious of anger encroaching upon the melancholy splendor of her emotions, and the change was bitter.
"When the rain comes, won't it counteract the ignition of that phosphorus ?" she asked, eagerly, for she knew that rain would come.
"Only for the time being.

It 'll be just as dry this time to-morrow as it is now." "Then the wheat's goin' to burn," declared Anderson, grimly.

"If that trick has been worked all over this country you're goin' to have worse 'n a prairie fire.

The job on hand is to save this one section that has a fortune tied up in it." "Mr.Anderson, that job looks almost hopeless, in the light of this phosphorus trick.

What on earth can be done?
I've four men.


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