A Highland Folly
“A rigid expression stiffened his lips. Brushing his hand over a lichen-embroidered boulder, he sat on it and viewed the work objectively.
It was going well. On this side of the river, the passage along the hillside was beginning to resemble a road. Trees were being felled as men graded the steep bank. Everything was going well as the road followed the edge of the Kinloch property. Everything was going well. Now.
He shook his head. How could he persuade Potter to consider all the ramifications o...f the orders his assistant gave? A week’s work had been saved only because another of the men had noticed what Potter had overlooked. If the gunpowder had been lit, it might have sent an area they needed for one of the bridge supports right into the river, changing its course and wrecking any hopes of building the bridge here.
Potter had argued that he was being undermined by both the men who were jealous of his position and by the villagers who wanted to destroy the project. Lucais had listened, had the blasting area realigned, and then had supervised the rest of the day’s work himself, determined that the project would not come to such a humiliating end.MoreLess
It was going well. On this side of the river, the passage along the hillside was beginning to resemble a road. Trees were being felled as men graded the steep bank. Everything was going well as the road followed the edge of the Kinloch property. Everything was going well. Now.
He shook his head. How could he persuade Potter to consider all the ramifications o...f the orders his assistant gave? A week’s work had been saved only because another of the men had noticed what Potter had overlooked. If the gunpowder had been lit, it might have sent an area they needed for one of the bridge supports right into the river, changing its course and wrecking any hopes of building the bridge here.
Potter had argued that he was being undermined by both the men who were jealous of his position and by the villagers who wanted to destroy the project. Lucais had listened, had the blasting area realigned, and then had supervised the rest of the day’s work himself, determined that the project would not come to such a humiliating end.MoreLess
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