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Sent 1: Howland talked but little on their way back to camp.
Sent 2: The scene that he had just witnessed affected him strangely; it stirred once more within him all of his old ambition, all of his old enthusiasm, and yet neither found voice in words.
Sent 3: He was glad when the dinner was over at Thorne's, and with the going of the mail sledge and the senior engineer there came over him a still deeper sense of joy.
Sent 4: Now _he_ was in charge, it was _his_ road from that hour on.
Sent 5: He crushed MacDonald's hand in a grip that meant more than words when they parted.
Sent 6: In his own cabin he threw off his coat and hat, lighted his pipe, and tried to realize just what this all meant for him.
Sent 7: He was in charge--in charge of the greatest railroad building job on earth--_he_, Jack Howland, who less than twenty years ago was a barefooted, half-starved urchin peddling papers in the streets where he was now famous!
Sent 8: And now what was this black thing that had come up to threaten his chances just as he had about won his great fight?
Sent 9: He clenched his hands as he thought again of what had already happened--the cowardly attempt on his life, the warnings, and his blood boiled to fever heat.
Sent 10: That night--after he had seen Meleese--he would know what to do.
Sent 11: But he would not be driven away, as Gregson and Thorne had been driven.
Sent 12: He was determined on that.