Crossword-Solution: FINDLAYSON 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

With its approaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.

There stood his bridge before him in the sunlight, lacking only a few weeks’ work on the girders of the three middle piers--his bridge, raw and ugly as original sin, but pukka--permanent--to endure when all memory of the builder, yea, even of the splendid Findlayson truss, has perished.

Personal assistant, and at Simla, thou shalt be, if any credit comes to me out of the business!” Indeed, the burden of the work had fallen altogether on Findlayson and his assistant, the young man whom he had chosen because of his rawness to break to his own needs.

They had been tried many times in sudden crises--by slipping of booms, by breaking of tackle, failure of cranes, and the wrath of the river--but no stress had brought to light any man among men whom Findlayson and Hitchcock would have honoured by working as remorselessly as they worked them-selves.

Hitchcock had been appointed a magistrate of the third class with whipping powers, for the better government of the community, and Findlayson watched him wield his powers temperately, learning what to overlook and what to look after.