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THE GENERAL MANAGER "LOOKS IN".
Neither Tom nor Harry was stupid enough to be wholly unafraid over the threats of the day.

Both realized that Jim Duff and the latter's associates were ugly and treacherous men who would fight sooner than be deprived of their chance to fleece the railway workmen.

Yet neither young engineer had any intention of being scared into flight.
"They'll put up a lot of trouble for us," said Tom that afternoon, as the two chums talked the matter over.

"They may even go to extremities, and--" "Shoot us ?" smiled Hazelton, though there was a serious look under his smile.
"Yes; they may even try that," I nodded Tom.