Not as much as a sixteenth of an inch at any point," responded the foreman.

"The job has been a big success." "We can tell that better after the track has held loads of from five to eight hundred tons," Harry rejoined.

"I believe, however, that we have the tricks of the savage old Man-killer nailed." Exultation throbbed in Harry's heart.

Outwardly, he did not trust himself to reveal his great delight.

He still followed, watching anxiously, until the train had passed safely over the Man-killer.
Then a great cheer went up from more than a thousand throats, for many people had come out from Paloma to watch the test.
The train had gone a quarter of a mile past the western edge of the huge and once treacherous quicksand.