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Your temper is touched at last, Jim. I am thankful to Freet for that." Jim nodded grimly. "Will you go over to the tent with me? Or had I better have it out with Sara alone?" "Neither," said Pen. "I'll settle him myself. I feel like having a scrap with someone. What else are you going to do, Still? Shall you report Freet?" "That's out of the question. Freet is the least of my troubles, anyhow.
The Makon Project was a six years' job. Freet gave Jim a chance at every angle of the work. Jim admired his chief ardently and yet the two never grew confidential. Freet, in fact, had no confidants among the government employees, but he seemed to know a great many of the politicians of the valley and of the state.
I had to get Saradokis' report on my New York deals before I came to see you." "Oh, come across, Mr. Freet!" said Jim quietly. "I know about what you want and you'll have to approach me sooner or later, so let's get done with it." Freet smiled broadly. "I always knew you'd come to your senses, Manning, if we gave you time.
He pictured again the drowned and mangled workmen at the cost of whose lives the Makon tunnel had been driven. A slow, bitter anger had risen in him against Freet.
Some of the finest men in the country are in it today and nobody knows it." "Like Mr. Freet," said Jim. Jim thought that Tuck hesitated for a moment before he answered. "Yes, and a dozen others. I consider it a privilege to work with them.
"Don't let on to anyone but Williams and us fellows is mum." And so the Director made his trip down and up the Makon Road and praised much the forethought and care that Jim had expended on it. And Jim, because the secret meant so much to his men, did not tell of their devotion until the Director had gone and Arthur Freet was established on the job.
The plans for the preliminary surveys of the Makon Project were begun at once. Jim remained at Green Mountain during the winter, serving his apprenticeship to the concrete works and the superintendent as Mr. Freet had planned. But in the spring he had his wish and was sent to lay out the road on the Makon project.
You are years younger since having a good dance, and it looks as if a dance will be the only chance I'll ever have to hug you for all the dear things you do for me!" Then he fled out the door before Pen could answer. He walked in at the open door of the tent. "Good evening, Mr. Freet," he said. Arthur Freet rose nonchalantly. "Hello, Manning! Pleasure before duty.
"Every cent that the Project cost must be paid back by the farmers. What right had the Service to make mistakes?" In all the cloud of complaints, Jim maintained a persistent silence and placed his canals without fear or favor. One morning in March, it was Jim's fifth year on the Makon, Mr. Freet sent for him.
And after he had heard the story Freet said, looking at Jim keenly: "You know what that kind of carelessness deserves, Manning?" Jim nodded and Freet laughed at his serious face. "Pshaw, boy! Your having gotten together an organization with that sort of motive power would offset worse carelessness than that. Get ready to shove them into the tunnel." So Jim's rough-necks began to open the tunnel.
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