Yet what they'll find, in the end, is that the Man-killer is a bad affair, and that it extends, under the earth, in many directions and for long distances.

I am certain that railway tracks will never be laid over any part of the Man-killer." "Perhaps not," assented Clarence meekly.
"What makes you think that the railroad can ever get across the Man-killer ?" persisted Duff.
"Why, for one thing, the very hopeful report of the new engineers who have taken charge." "Humph!" retorted Duff, as though that one word of contempt disposed of the matter.
"Reade and Hazelton are very good engineers, are they not ?" inquired young Farnsworth.
"Humph! A pair of mere boys," sneered Jim Duff.
"Young fellows of about my age, you mean ?" asked Farnsworth.
"Of your age ?" repeated Duff, in a tone of wonder.

"No! You're a man.
Reade and Hazelton, as I've told you, are mere boys.

They're not of age.
They've never voted." "Oh, I had no idea that they were as young as that," replied Clarence, much pleased at hearing himself styled a man.

"But these young engineers come from one of the Colorado, railroads, don't they!" "I wouldn't be surprised," nodded the gambler.