[The Young Engineers in Nevada by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe Young Engineers in Nevada CHAPTER VI 7/16
Now, the lure of gold is all well enough, and we're human enough to like money.
Yet a really big engineering chance would take us away from a gold mine almost any day in the year.
Eh, Harry!" "I'm afraid it would," confirmed Hazelton. "If we left a paying mine, Jim, what would we want ?" Tom continued. "We'd want an honest partner, wouldn't we---one whom we could leave for six months or a year and still be able to depend on getting our share of the profits of the mine.
You've gambled in the past, Jim, but you stopped that years ago.
Now you're honest and safe.
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