While there they had encountered Dick Prescott
and Greg Holmes, their old school chums, at that time cadets at
the United States Military Academy. The doings of the four old
chums at that time in Gridley are set forth fully in "_Dick Prescott's
Third Year At West Point_."
During the weeks spent East, Tom and Harry had taken almost their
first steps in the study of metallurgy. They had succeed in mastering
the comparatively simple art of assaying gold and silver.
So now, with the summer past, we find our young engineers out in
Nevada, taking a little more rest just because no new engineering
task of sufficient importance had presented itself.
"If we're going to be engineers out West, though, Harry, we simply
must know a good deal about assaying precious metals," Tom had
declared.
So, though the chums were "taking a rest," as they phrased it, they
had brought with them a small furnace and the rest of the outfit for
assaying minerals in small quantities.
Today, however, was altogether too fine for thoughts of work.
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