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AS for Brant and the successive steps in his reformatory experiment leading up to the good repute hinted at by Isabel's praise, fortune, good and ill, had befallen in this wise.
After the incident on the Denver journey and his instant recognition by a chance brakeman on the train, he had steeled himself, looking for similar embarrassments at every turn. But uphill paths are not always rough or slippery throughout, and in proof of this the beginnings were made easy for him. From the first he met no inopportune acquaintances, and, again, the question of employment answered itself congenially and promptly. Colonel Bowran needed a draughtsman; also, he happened to hold Brant's college in high repute, since its Professor of Mathematics had been an alumnus of his own _alma mater_. This and that, yoked together, ploughed Brant's furrow for him; and two days after his arrival in Denver he was perched upon a high stool in the chief engineer's office, giving himself mind and heart to the practice of a profession which had once been an artistic passion with him.