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"I reckon"
"Agnew says it will take a hundred cars"
"That's not far out of the way On flat cars you won't average much
over ten yards to the car, will you, Morris?"
Like tary gamblers Callahan and the chief of construction on the
pat and the
general superintendent disinclined throughnow," said Callahan at length with a
sidewise glance, "but if you get a hundred cars of rock into that hole
by twelve o'clock to-night--not to speak of laying steel--you can have
ht away, for I'll have the rock in the river
long before that Now don't rubber, but get after the men and the
drills----"
"The drills?"
"I said the whole outfit"
"Would it be proper to ask what you are going to drill?"
"Perfectly proper" Glover pointed again to the shelving wall across
the river "It will save tiht to tumble the Cat's Paw into
the river--there's ten tiht there--I can dump a
thousand yards where we need it in thirty seconds after I get ive us our foundation and your roadmasters can lay a
track over it in six hours that will carry your fruit--I wouldn't
reco-cars, but it will do for plums and cherries