I once worked under the engineer of a very similar machine for a month or two," he said.
Stirling picked up the model and examined it carefully before he replaced it in the roll-top desk, which he shut with a snap.
"Do you feel like taking a hundred dollars for the notion ?" he asked.
"I'd rather make you a present of it," said Weston, quietly.
"Well," laughed Stirling, "I'll take it.

My secretary paid the other man a good deal more than that for the copper one, and it won't do quite what is wanted.

If that man had run an excavator in the mud and rain I guess he'd have made it different.

He sits tight in a smart office, and tries to remember what they taught him twenty years ago in the erecting shop." It seemed to Weston that there was a good deal to be said for this point of view, though it was a matter which did not concern him.

His companion's manner was friendly, and to some extent familiar, but Weston had already had an uneasy feeling in his presence that he was being carefully weighed, or measured, by an astonishingly accurate standard.