Still, you can't change the whole face of human nature, Mr.Reade." "I don't expect to do so," smiled Tom.

"Yet, if we can get a hundred or two in this outfit to take a sensible view of pay day, and can drill it into them so that it will stick, there will be just that number of happier men in the world.

How long have you been in this work on the frontier, Mr.Hawkins ?" "About twenty years, sir." "Then it must have angered you, many a time, to see the vultures and the parasites fattening on the men who do the real work in life." "It has," nodded the superintendent.

"However, I haven't your gift with the tongue, Mr.Reade, and I've never been able to lead men into the right path as you did yesterday." Over in the little village of tents where the idle workmen sat through the forenoon there was some restlessness.

These men knew that there was nothing for them to do until the construction material arrived, and that they were required only to report in order to keep themselves on the time sheets.