His fleshy, aggressive face, that lacked the tan of his companion's, was fixed in dogmatic lines.

From time to time he switched his gauntlets against the skirt of his fashionably cut ulster with lively impatience.
"I certainly demand that these changes be made and shall recommend to the bondholders," he was saying, "that they also insist on them." "Can't help it if you do," was Lee Bryant's reply.

"I know what I'm talking about: concrete is necessary.

No irrigation engineer to-day who knows his business would think of anything else.

Mr.McDonnell's man approved its use, the state engineer likewise.