That fellow Ashby is uneasy; I think he will be more than uneasy after a while." The dinner party motored back to town.

Dinner was more like a reception that evening, for the news of Tom's plucky fight against the rough element had spread through the town.

Nearly two score of men representing the better part of the population of Paloma called at the hotel to shake hands with the young engineers.
"They don't seem to care a hang about me, these men, do they, Hawkins ?" laughed the general manager, as he and the superintendent stood in the background of the picture.
"That's because they're Arizona men, sir," replied Hawkins.

"Their interest is in the man who has done the thing, not in the boss." "I can understand why President Newnham, of the S.B.& L., recommended these young men so extravagantly.

They're full of force and absolutely free from self-conceit." Finally the party motored back towards the camp.