Yet you say that you're boosting your ambitions." "I am," Tom nodded solemnly.

"Harry, isn't it just as great an ambition to be an honest engineer as it is to be a highly capable one ?" "Of course." "Don't capitalists usually invest large sums on a favorable report from engineers ?" "Often." "And, if the engineers were dishonest the capitalists would lose their money, wouldn't they ?" "Certainly." "Then here's our ambition, and we're working it out--finely, too," Tom went on, with much warmth.

"Don Luis has a scheme to rob some people of a large sum of money by selling them a worthless mine in a country where there are several good ones.

If he could get us to help him, to our own dishonor, Don Luis Montez would succeed in swindling this company of men.

Harry, we're just lying around here, day after day, doing no hard work, but we're blocking Don Luis's game and saving money for honest men.