Why should he?
The truth is that Cub Reade doesn't realize how much every man is needed in the field.

Reade doesn't understand the big need for hustle here.
Well, that all helps to make my task the easier." Within five minutes Rutter and the other engineers had their full instructions.

As they started away Tom called after them: "Gentlemen, if there is any possible way of putting fifty per cent.
more work into each day, now, I know I can rely upon you all to do it.

The S.B.

& L.must run its first train over the completed road within charter time." Now, Tom had opportunity to wonder what had happened to Harry Hazelton, who should have been back in camp the preceding evening.
"He must have had to go farther for ice than we imagined," was the only conclusion Reade could form.