You made it plain enough, too, to the men that
they had joined the enemy and thereby declared against us."
"Message, Mr. Reade," called the operator from the doorway.
"The construction material train, the first one, will be here within two
hours," cried Tom, looking up from the paper, his eyes dancing. "Now we
can do some of the real work that we've been waiting to do!"
CHAPTER IX
THE MAN-KILLER CLAIMS A SACRIFICE
In the days that followed Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton were more
continuously and seriously busy than they had ever been before in their
lives.
Sometimes it happens that engineers come upon a quicksand that
apparently has no bottom. It will be filled and apparently the earth on
top is solid. After a few days there will follow either a gradual
shifting away or a sudden cave in, and the quicksand must once more be
attacked.
This condition had been experienced more than a dozen times with the
Man-killer before Tom and Harry had been called to solve the problem.
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