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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Why is it strange?" "Why," Tom Reade rejoined amiably, "everyone connected with the A. G. & N. M. who knows anything at all about you credits you with being a member of the Colthwaite Company's gloom department." "Gloom department?" gasped Ransom, with a wholly innocent-looking face. "Oh, all right. I'll bite. What is a gloom department, anyway?"
"On the contrary, I greatly enjoy seeing you here," Tom declared. "I'm very grateful for the praise you offered me a moment ago." "You're welcome," returned the Colthwaite agent, trying hard to smile. "However, I won't take up your time. Good afternoon." "Good afternoon, then," nodded Tom. "Drop in again, won't you? Any time within working hours."
"Why didn't you let him come along?" "Because I don't like Danes' employers." "His employers?" Harry repeated, puzzled. "Yes; he is employed by the Colthwaite Company." "What?" Hazelton started in astonishment. "How do you know that, Tom?" "I don't know it, but I'm sure of it, just the same," was Reade's answer. "It maybe so," Harry agreed. "What makes you suspect him?"
"The thing can it be done for any such amount as that, and it is a crazy idea, to take the opinions of boys, anyway, on any such subject as that. Now, there's a Chicago firm of contractors, the Colthwaite Construction Company, which has proposed to take over the whole contract for laying tracks across the Man-killer.
"We'll have to watch him, then," muttered Harry. "We don't need to tell him anything, nor do we need to bring him out here to see how we are filling in the Man-killer. If we don't tell Danes much he may not last long. The Colthwaite people ought soon to grow tired of keeping agents here who don't succeed in hindering our work." "Whew!
There was little doubt that the Colthwaite Construction Company, a contracting firm with years of successful experience, could have, "stopped" the quicksand, but this Chicago firm wanted far more money for the job than the railroad people felt they could afford to spend.
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