CHAPTER XXVII.
HOW SOMETHING CAME TO AN END.
The mica-mine management appeared to be thoroughly in earnest about this extension of the telegraph line.

As soon as the assent of the Board of Managers to the scheme had been communicated to them, they sent a note to Harry suggesting that he should, in the name of his company, get the written consent of owners of the lands over which the line would pass to the construction of said line on their property.

This business was soon settled, for none of the owners of the farms between the mines and Hetertown, all of whom were well acquainted with Mr.Loudon (and no man in that part of the country was held in higher estimation by his neighbors), had the slightest objection to the boys putting up their telegraph line on their lands.
When Harry had secured the necessary promises, the construction of the line was commenced forthwith.

The boys had very little trouble with it.
Mr.Martin got together a gang of men, with an experienced man to direct them, and came down with them to Akeville, where Harry hired them; and finding that the foreman understood the business, he told him to go to work and put up the line.

When paydays came around, Harry gave each man an order for his money on the Mica Mine Company, and their wages were paid them by Mr.Martin.
It was not very long before the line was constructed and the instruments were in working order in Hetertown and at the mica mines.