“Can't we blow her up with powder?”
“Ever try to blow up iron?”
“There must be some way.”
“Oh, there is,” replied Welton. “Of course—take her apart bolt by bolt and nut by nut.”
“Send for the wrenches, then,” snapped Orde.
“But it would take two or three days, even working night and day.”
“What of it?”
“But it would be too late—it would do no good—”
“Perhaps not,” interrupted Orde; “but it will be doing something, anyway. Look here, Welton, are you game? If you'll get that bridge out in two days I'll hold the jam.”
“You can't hold that jam two hours, let alone two days,” said Welton decidedly.