Hawkins will also be
with us at dinner this evening. He has told me about the Mansion House
affair, so the Cactus House shall be the railway house hereafter. That
fellow Ashby is uneasy; I think he will be more than uneasy after a
while."
The dinner party motored back to town. Dinner was more like a reception
that evening, for the news of Tom's plucky fight against the rough
element had spread through the town. Nearly two score of men
representing the better part of the population of Paloma called at the
hotel to shake hands with the young engineers.
"They don't seem to care a hang about me, these men, do they, Hawkins?"
laughed the general manager, as he and the superintendent stood in the
background of the picture.
"That's because they're Arizona men, sir," replied Hawkins. "Their
interest is in the man who has done the thing, not in the boss."
"I can understand why President Newnham, of the S. B. & L., recommended
these young men so extravagantly. They're full of force and absolutely
free from self-conceit.
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