If he has vanished, and has gone to
sleep, then it is because he feels so sure of his work that he takes no
further interest in the test that is being made."
"But if an accident should happen?" asked the president of the A. G. &
N. M. R. R.
"Then I can promise you that you'd see Reade, on his pony, shooting
ahead as fast as he could go to the scene of the trouble."
These more important railroad officials had come out to camp in
automobiles. Now they followed on foot as the train rolled on to the
land reclaimed from the Man-killer.
Superintendent Hawkins and his foremen also went along on foot to
observe whether the track sank ever so little at any point.
It was none of Harry Hazelton's particular business to watch whether the
tracks sank slightly. That duty could be better performed by the
foremen who had had charge of the track laying. Yet Hazelton, as he
watched, found himself growing impatient.
"Here!" Harry called to a near-by laborer. "Take my horse, please."
In another instant the young assistant engineer was on foot, following
the slowly moving train as it rolled along over the ground where, months
before, not even a man could have strolled with safety.
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