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"We're spending money like water; paying anything that's asked; and even then the men come and go like a torchlight procession. But we are keeping the surfacing gangs neck-full the entire length of the line, and Leckhard has already organized his regular train service over the first hundred miles.
Now you can turn in and sleep a few lines on that." It was merely by chance that Adair had Michael Gallagher for his engineer when the "01" was made up for the after-midnight run from Saint's Rest to the MacMorrogh headquarters. But it was a chance which was duly gratifying to Leckhard. The little Irishman was Ford's most loyal liegeman, and a word was all that was needed to put him on his mettle.
You'll meet Folsom and Graham with the other two sections of empties where you can: you'll run as fast as the Lord'll let you on such a track as you have: but above all, you'll stay on the rails. If you ditch yourself, it'll go hard with Mr. Ford." "I'll do all thim things and wan more and thot wan is the shtiffest av thim all: the saints aidin' me, Misther Leckhard, I'll shtay awake."
"Look it up in Callahan's office," he said. "If any message has gone to Leckhard to-day, I didn't write it." When he closed the door of his private office behind him, Lidgerwood's purpose was to go immediately to the Nadia to warn the members of the pleasure-party, and to convince them, if possible, of the advisability of a prompt retreat to Copah.
Adair had lighted a cigarette, and he did not reply until the match flare had gone out. Then he said, in a way that made Leckhard his friend for life: "I'm entirely in your hands, Mr. Leckhard; can't turn a wheel unless you say so. And I believe you're telling me the truth, as man to man. Can you reach Ford or Mr. Colbrith by wire?" "I'm sorry to say I can't.
How much authority is a director allowed at this altitude and distance from New York?" Leckhard laughed. "I reckon you might call yourself the ranking officer in the field, Mr. Adair. What you say, goes." "Then I say 'go'; which means that I'd like to go on to the end of the extension." But now the engineer was shaking his head. "Ask me anything but that, Mr. Adair.
As it chanced the tank track was cleared a few minutes later; the 1012 was backed down and supplied, and Ford instructed Leckhard to do what he could with the single, poorly manned construction wire toward giving the president's special a clear track. "That won't be much," said the hard-worked base-of-supplies man.
"Why yes," said Frisbie, taking time to call the mental roll. "There are Major Benson and his son Jack you know 'em both just in off their job in the Selkirks. Then there is Roy Brissac; he'd be a pretty good man in the field; and Chauncey Leckhard, of my class, he's got a job in Winnipeg, but he'll come if I ask him to, and he is the best office man I know.
You can't put a locomotive in your pocket and walk off with it. You say you've wired Copah?" "Yes." "Who was at the Copah key Mr. Leckhard?" "No. I didn't want to advertise our troubles to a main-line official. I got the day-despatcher, Crandall, and told him to keep his mouth shut until he heard of it some other way." "Good. And what did Crandall say?"
You've got to get me to the end-of-track before it comes to blows between Mr. Colbrith and Stuart Ford. I know both men, Mr. Leckhard. If the iron comes to a certain heat, the past master of all the peacemakers won't be able to patch things together." "Ford will resign," said the engineer. "That is what I'm afraid of; and we can't let him resign. That would mean Mr.
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