[The Young Engineers in Colorado by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe Young Engineers in Colorado CHAPTER XXI 4/11
& L.would be forfeited and subject to seizure and sale by the state. Up from Denver some of the worst politicians had come.
They were quartered at the new little hotel in Lineville.
Dave Fulsbee had detailed three of his men covertly to watch these same politicians. Tom, inwardly consumed with fever, outwardly as cheery as human being might be, stood watching the laying of the rails over that last stretch.
The men who could be prevented from dropping in their tracks must work until the last rail had been spiked into place.
Away up in Lineville Harry Hazelton was personally superintending the laying of the last ties. The honk of an automobile horn caused Tom Reade to glance up. Approaching him was President Newnham, himself driving the runabout that he had had forwarded. "Reade!" called the president of the S.B.
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