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Excerpt from In the Shadow of the Hills
Since his arrival a week before he had been consult ing with Magney, studying maps and blue-prints, exam ining the work and analyzing general conditions. What had been accomplished had been well done; he had no criticism to offer on that score. It was the delay; the work was considerably behind schedule, which of course meant excessive cost; and this had undermined the spirit of the enterprise. In a dozen places, in a dozen ways, Magney, his predecessor, had been hampered, checked, defeated - and the main contributing cause was poor workmen, inefficient work. On that sore Weir's skillful finger fell at once. Standing there before the low office building he watched Magney depart. He, Steele Weir, had now taken over full charge of the camp and assumed full re sponsibility for the project's failure or success. His eye passed beyond the distant automobile to the town of San Mateo - a new town for him, but a town like many he had seen in the southwest and in Mexico. And aside from its connection with the construction work, it held a fascinating interest, a profound interest for the man, the interest that any spot would which has at a distance cast a black and sinister shadow over one's life. San Mateo - the name lay like a smoldering coal in his breast! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
