MacFarlane had chosen the engineer of the railroad who
had examined McGowan's masonry an hour after the embankment had
given way. McGowan picked out a brother contractor and Garry wrote
a personal letter to Holker Morris, following it up by a personal
visit to the office of the distinguished architect, who, when he
learned that not only Garry, MacFarlane, and Jack were concerned
in the outcome of the investigation, but also Ruth--whose marriage
might depend on the outcome,--broke his invariable rule of never
getting mixed up in anybody's quarrels, and accepted the position
without a murmur.
This done everybody interested sat down to await the result of the
independent investigations of each expert, Garry receiving the
reports in sealed envelopes and locking them in the official safe,
to be opened in full committee at its next monthly meeting, when a
final report, with recommendations as to liability and costs,
would be drawn up; the same, when adopted by a majority of the
Council the following week, to be binding.
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