My family will not suffer, except in a social way." Powers spoke calmly and sadly.

Henry Maxwell did not need to ask him how the wife and daughter felt.

He knew well enough that the superintendent had suffered deepest at that point.
"There is one matter I wish you would see to," said Powers after awhile, "and that is, the work begun at the shops.

So far as I know, the company will not object to that going on.

It is one of the contradictions of the railroad world that Y.M.C.A.'s and other Christian influences are encouraged by the roads, while all the time the most un-Christian and lawless acts may be committed in the official management of the roads themselves.