Chapter VI

“Where were we, Miss Trent?” Theodore Grant Junior tilted back in a chair beside the typewriter desk in the administration office he and Bruce Harcourt shared at headquarters. Janice read from her note-book. “‘Re: Ditching gang No. 2—’” “O.K. Get this: Ditching gang No. 2, operating ditcher No. 25 loaded approximately 3500 cubic yards of gravel at pit at mile 207.8 and about 1500 cubic yards at mile 265 for ballast in the vicinity of the pits.” His voice went on and on till steam-shovel gangs and ditching gangs fil…