The Young Engineers in Arizona

m Duff and the latter's associates were ugly and treacherous men who would fight sooner than be deprived of thei

m that afternoon, as the two chums talked the mat

on, though there was a se

ush at night. They will be desperate, though not over brave. Recollect, Harry, that the better element in Paloma won'

nd his gang," l

-by homes. If Duff had enough men of his own way of thinking, they might try to ride out here to camp and clean us out. If they did, then all the decent men in thi

reported Foreman Rivers, thrusting his head in

uction train?

, sir. The whistle was

iting for materials, hastened outdoors. Soon the train was close enough t

f the road's offici

e, as the chums walked briskly down to th

man of fifty, with a belt-line just a trifle too large for comfort,

nager, as he caught sight of his two young engineers

down the carpeted aisle of a very comfortable private Pullman car. The g

t the row that you've

e into a plain, truthful account of the affair, brin

y," said the general manager, a little fretfully. "The workmen are all twenty-one ye

f put up his tents right on the railroad property would almost make it

," assented Mr. Ellsworth. "But why did you go to such trouble to get the m

ng another?" asked Reade respectfully. "D

h it," retorted the general manager h

asking that you send down a representative of a savings ba

I didn't have any idea, however, that you'd

only a few parasites-a flock of human vultures. T

e town as a whole," mused Mr. Ellsworth, "The good

of the real people in Paloma

me of th

n and find out for yourself just how the sentiment stands. We don't wish you to feel that we'r

mused Mr. Ellsworth. "Is there an

an wire into town for one. It will tak

for it

ing, sir?" Tom suggested, rising. "You know Hawkins,

awkins

sent, unless you send for us," Reade repli

nager until the arrival of the automobile. There was a

on his face, as he watched the departing c

ack across the Man-killer,

and his bad crowd? Are

" replied Tom. "He's our only source of authority. If he tells me to let Jim Duff bring

Hazelton, "than knuckle t

it were my quit. But, if Mr. Ellsworth give

, but Tom threw himself down at full length on a cot

s he saw his chum's unconcern. Then

Ellsworth returned. Harry was out of sight as th

him. General Manager Ellsworth gazed down at the sleepin

next world with dynamite?" he thought. "A lot this young man appears to think about his e

bed them, then sat up, n

," laughed Tom good-naturedly. "I trust you did

manager held

d how coolly you went through it all. A young man with your coura

na people over in Paloma don't find a

hood in Arizona just wild with respect for you," declared Mr. Ells

uch an evil nest of rattlers that you'll be fortunate if you escape

?" demanded Tom, looking ste

to quit me now I don't know where I could get another pair of men who

inner in town,

ening. He has told me about the Mansion House affair, so the Cactus House shall be the railway h

's plucky fight against the rough element had spread through the town. Nearly two score of men representi

they, Hawkins?" laughed the general manager, as he and t

replied Hawkins. "Their interest is in the

L., recommended these young men so extravagantly. They

citizens who had visited them escorted the slow moving car as far as the edge of the to

yway?" demanded Mr. Ellsworth. "Wh

we are on hand at the camp to-night. There may be some attempt to stampede our men. The crowd in Paloma are capable of offering our men free drink, just to do us mischie

, and, arriving there, dismissed the car. A tent was pitch

ng, after most of the workmen

material gets here," sighed

been doing anything but loafin

r. Besides, idleness is costing the roa

o have the material trains rushed forward on expre

egan Hawk

out by a booming explosion

s is more of our friends' work! They have dynamited