"What! You're certain of that?"
Griffith nodded. "He sailed into me, first thing, for taking work from you. To ease him off, I said the Coville Company had taken over the bridge from you. The matter hasn't happened to come up again since."
"You're certain he doesn't know I'm interested in the company?"
"Not unless somebody else has told him."
"Then—let's see— We'll appoint him Assistant Resident Engineer on the bridge."
"He'll not take it under young Ashton."
"Not if his salary is put at twenty-five thousand?"
"As Assistant Engineer?" said Griffith, incredulous.
"You'll be too busy with my other projects to keep up these visits to Michamac. Besides, you said the bridge is coming to the crucial point of construction."
"That central span," confirmed Griffith.