Now to go back to him again----" Lee stopped, with an expression of deep chagrin upon his face.
Pat tapped the dottle from his pipe and refilled the bowl.

He glanced once or twice at the engineer during the act.
"You can make a better showing now than before," said he.

"Four miles more and you'll be to the good.

One of the excitements of construction enterprises, and of irrigation projects in particular, I've observed, is the financing.

The more often a man can go and pull his backers' legs for cash, the better financier he is.