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`` That 's not far out of the way . On flat cars you wo n't average much over ten yards to the car , will you , Morris ? '' Like two wary gamblers Callahan and the chief of construction on the mountain lines coldly eyed each other , Glover standing pat and the general superintendent disinclined through many experiences to call . `` I 'm not doing the talking now , '' said Callahan at length with a sidewise glance , `` but if you get a hundred cars of rock into that hole by twelve o'clock to-night -- not to speak of laying steel -- you can have my job , old man . '' `` Then look up another right away , for I 'll have the rock in the river long before that . Now do n't rubber , but get after the men and the drills -- '' `` The drills ? '' `` I said the whole outfit . ''