Perhaps another
year--perhaps a few months. I am not giving you my own opinion,
for I've had very little experience, but that is what Bolton
thinks--he's second in command next to Mr. MacFarlane--and so do
the other fellows at our boarding house."
And then followed a discussion on "struts," roof timbers and tie-
rods, Jack describing in a modest, impersonal way the various
methods used by the members of the staff with which he was
connected, Morris, as usual, becoming so absorbed in the warding
off of "cave-ins" that for the moment he forgot the table, his
hostess and everybody about him, a situation which, while it
delighted Peter, who was bursting with pride over Jack, was
beginning to wear upon Miss Felicia, who was entirely indifferent
as to whether the top covering of MacFarlane's underground hole
fell in or not.
"There, now, Holker," she said with a smile as she laid her hand
on his coat sleeve--"not another word. Tunnels are things
everybody wants to get through with as quick as possible--and I'm
not going to spend all night in yours--awful damp places full of
smoke--No--not another word.
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