3/9 "As likely as not he's back in the office, taking a nap after having given the engineman his signal." "Asleep!" repeated the president. "Can he be so indolent or so indifferent as that ?" "You may always depend upon Tom Reade to do something that wouldn't be expected of him," laughed Mr.Ellsworth. "It isn't that he slights big duties, or even pretends to do. If he has vanished, and has gone to sleep, then it is because he feels so sure of his work that he takes no further interest in the test that is being made." "But if an accident should happen ?" asked the president of the A.G. |