Epochal The Feast of Hurrahs Quicksands Flood Tide The Abyss The Setting of the Ebb The Man on the Bank The Circean Cup Love's Crucible The Sunset Gun The Terror ILLUSTRATIONS The City of Numbered Days I The Heptaderm It was not characteristic of Brouillard—the Brouillard Grislow knew best—that he should suffer the purely technical talk of dams and reservoirs, bed-rock anchorages, and the latest word in concrete structural processes to languish and should drift into personal reminiscences over their first evening camp-fire in the Niquoia. Because the personalities were gratefully varying the monotonies, and also because he had a jocose respect for the unusual, Grislow was careful not to discourage the drift. There had been a benumbing surfeit of the technical talk dating from the day and hour when the orders had come from Washington giving Brouillard his
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