“Because you’re not running her right.”
“Hey?” shouted Slattery; “I said you thought you knew too much! That proves it. You’re trying to tell me how to run this engine.”
“You are running her just as old Joe started to run her yesterday. That’s what the row was over.”
“And you’re goin’ to pick a row with me, are ye? Well, they’ll get onter you after a while, if you keep it up.”
“I am not going to pick a row with you, but I am going to tell you this: On the return trip old Joe ran her right, and we got along well. The quadrant shows his notch. You are not keeping her there.”
“His notch? Where?”
“Where it is worn smooth there.”
“Did he run her there?”
“After our trouble.”
Slattery looked doubtful, but Frank gave him some straight talk then and there, telling what Hicks had done on the return trip.