The Young Engineers in Nevada
The Young Engineers in Nevada
or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick
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m assured him. "Why will you be so
foolish---so nervous? In other words, why do you destroy your five
senses with cigarettes in this fashion?"
Cl-cl-click!
Alf Drew halted, trembling so that he could hardly stand.
"I'm going to quit camp---going to get out of this place," he shivered. "The ground is full of rattlers. O-o-o-oh! There's another tuning up."
Tom laughed covertly. The disturbing sound came again.
"I never saw a place like this part of the range," Alf all but sobbed, his breath catching. "Oh, won't I be glad to see a city again!"
"Just so you can find a store where you can buy cigarettes?" Tom Reade queried.
"I wish I had one, now," moaned the young victim. "It would steady me."
"The last ones that you smoked didn't appear to steady you," the young engineer retorted. "Just see how unstrung you are. Every step you take you imagine you hear rattlers sounding their warning."
"Do you tell me, on your sacred honor," proposed Alf, "that you haven't heard a single ratt
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agree with Harry T; these are books with good moral values of boys and young men who actually work but also know how to play - good alternative to Hardy Boys, in my opinion. Thanks for putting them out there!
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