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NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1910, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
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May, 1910
CHAPTER
CHAPTER I
It was Construction Foreman Cassidy who gave theplace its name when he answered his employer’slaconic telegram. Stirling, the great contractor, frequentlyexpressed himself with forcible terseness; butwhen he flung the message across to his secretary as hesat one morning in his private room in an Ottawahote