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“Water will do its damnedest to wash out your roadbed if you don’t divert it”

Bell said, “I put the question to you, Senator What ineer?”

“Stealth,” Kincaid replied

“Stealth?” echoed Hennessy, shooting a baffled look at Bell “What in blazes are you talking about, Kincaid?”

“Conceal” Kincaid sht Speed versus cost What an engineer grasps in one fist, he surrenders with the other A brilliant engineer hides compromise You will never see it in his work Take Mr Mowery’s bridge To my journeyman’s eye, his compromises are invisible It simply soars”

“Nonsense,” rumbled Franklin Mowery “It’s only mathematics”

Bell said to Mowery, “But you yourself toldcompromises just the other day at the Diamond Canyon Loop wreck What do you think, sir? Is the Wrecker a brilliant engineer?”

Mowery brushed the point of his beard distractedly “The Wrecker has shown knowledge of geology, explosives, and the roadbed, not to ineer, he’s ”

Emma Comden returned, bundled to her chin in a fur coat The collar fra fur cap was perched jauntily on her hair, and her dark eyes sparkled

“Co”

“What the heck for?”

“To look at the stars”

“Stars? It’s raining”

“The storm has passed The sky is brilliant”

“It’s too cold,” Hennessy coraphs to wire as soon as Lillian stubs out that daets her notepad Kincaid, take Mrs Comden for a walk, would you? Good man”