As for me, Reade, and as far as
I can speak for my fellow directors, go ahead, just the way you've started.
If you can find any way to hammer camp vice harder than you've been
hammering it, then go ahead and do some harder work with your little
hammer."
"I'll do it," promised Tom. "Now, Mr. Prenter, I don't believe anything
more will happen here to-night---perhaps not for two or three nights. So
I think the wisest thing for you to do will be to get back to the house and
get some sleep. The same for you, Harry!"
"What are you going to do?" Hazelton wanted to know.
"I?" repeated Reade. "For to-night I'm going to remain up, and be out here
around this threatened wall."
"Then that ought to be good enough for me, also," Harry suggested.
"Not much, chum. I'm going to take the night trick for the present, and
put on you the burden of all the day work. So you'll need your sleep."
"I can swing the day work easily enough," laughed Hazelton. "It will be
all the more easy as the next few days will be taken up simply with
repairing the breaks that have been made."
"Swing the boat in toward land, Mr. Corbett," Tom directed the foreman.
At the little landing Hazelton and Mr.
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