Then, picking up the two telegrams, Tom stepped outside, turning them over to the rider.
"Ask your operator to rush both of these, the one to New York going first." As the pony's hoofs clicked against the gravel, Reade stepped inside the tent.
"What are you going to do with the State University students ?" asked Harry curiously.
"Put 'em at work on the smaller jobs here," Tom answered.

"At least, as many of them as the professor will vouch for." Three hours later Tom received an answer to his local despatch.
It was from Professor Coles, sixty miles away, in camp with a party of thirty engineering students.

The professor asked for further particulars.

Tom wired back: "Can use your entire lot of students in practical railroad work, if they want experience and can do work.

Will you bring them here with all speed and let us try them out?
For yourself, we offer suitable pay for a man of your attainments.