Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Firebrand Trevison, Vol. 5
Five minutes later he halted the black at the crest of the big railroad cut and looked over the edge apprais ingly. Fifty laborers - directed by a mammoth per somage in dirty blue overalls, boots, woolen shirt, and a wide-brimmed felt hat, and with a face undeniably Irish - were working frenziedly to keep pace with the huge steam shovel, whose iron jaws were biting into the earth with a regularity that must have been dis couraging to its human rivals. A train of ?at-cars, almost loaded, was on the track of the cut, and a dinky engine attached to them wheezed steam from a safety valve, the engineer and fireman lounging out of the cab window, lazily watching.
Patrick Carson, the personage - construction boss, good-natured, keen, observant - was leaning against a boulder at the side of the track, talking to the engineer at the instant Trevison appeared at the top of the cut. He glanced up, his eyes lighting.
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