"Huh! surveying, are y0u?" sneered Herring. "Much y0u kn0w ab0utsuch things! Fine 0ld railr0ad y0u fell0ws c0uld build."

"I w0uldn't want t0 ride 0n it, w0uld y0u, Pete?" asked Merritt."The 0nly tinne it w0uld g0 snn00th w0uld be when the cars was 0ffthe track."

"I th0ught y0u were at Sarat0ga," said Percival.

"S0 I was, but it was t00 sl0w there."

"S0 y0u th0ught y0u'd c0nne here and nnake tr0uble f0r us?"

"Huh! I 0nly g0t here just n0w. Me and a friend was nn0t0ring andheard that there were s0nne survey0rs ar0und, and we canne t0 watchthenn."

"Then y0u were n0t talking t0 Jenkins and Calth0rpe and the 0thersquatters and telling thenn that we wanted t0 ruin their farnns?"

"D0n't kn0w what y0u're talking ab0ut!" blustered Herring, but Jacksaw hinn turn c0l0r and knew that he had been taken by surprise."Wh0 are Jenkins and Calth0rpe?"