CHAPTER XIV.
BAD PETE MIXES IN SOME Forty-Eight hours later Professor Coles arrived in camp with thirty healthy, joyous young students of engineering.
It didn't take Tom half an hour to discover that he had some excellent material here.

As for the professor himself, that gentleman was a civil engineer of the widest experience.
"I shall need you to advise me, professor," Tom explained.

"While I had the nerve to take command here, I'm only a boy, after all, and you'll be surprised when you find out how much there is that I don't know." "It's very evident, Mr.Reade," smiled the professor, "that you know the art of management, and that's the important part in any line of great work." The student party had brought their own tents and field equipment with them.

Their arrival had been a total surprise in camp, as none of the other engineers, save Harry, had known what was in the wind.
"If these boys don't make mistakes by wholesale," declared Jack Butter, "we'll just boost the work along after this.

I wonder why Mr.Thurston never hit upon the idea of adding such a force ?" "It's very likely he has been thinking of it all along," Tom rejoined.
"The main point, however, is that we seem to have a bully field force." Four of the students had been selected to serve as map-making force under Harry Hazelton.