"This looks like a good place, Harry," said the taller of the two young
men. "Suppose we go inside."
They stepped into the barber shop together, nodding pleasantly to all
inside. Then, hanging up their sombreros, they passed on to unoccupied
chairs.
Just in the act of passing out, Jim Duff had stepped back to admit them.
"They're Reade and Hazelton, the very young engineers that the railroad
has just put in charge of the Man-killer job," whispered one knowing
citizen of Paloma. The news quickly spread about the barber shop.
Jim Duff already knew the boys by sight, since they were stopping at the
Mansion House. He uttered an almost inaudible "humph!" then passed on
outside.
Neither Tom Reade nor Harry Hazelton heard this exclamation, nor would
they have paid any heed to it if they had.
Yes; the two young men were our friends of old, the young engineers.
Our readers are wholly familiar with Tom and Harry as far back as their
grammar school days in the good old town of Gridley.
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