Crossword-Solution: MANK 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Parker,” said the foreman earnestly, “have you go it figured what the old chap is goin' to do to us?” “That is hardly a fair question to put to me Mank,” said the engineer, pulling on his mittens.

You see what kind of a position that puts us in.” “You don't mean that the crew is going to strike, or rather slip out from under, do you, Mank?” asked Parker, struck by the man's demeanor.

But, Mank, I think that when the pinch comes you will find that my men can be as loyal to me, even if I am a stranger, as Ward's men are to the infernal old tyrant who has abused them all these years.

One cheerful moment for Parker had been when the postmaster informed him of Sunkhaze's equilibrium in the matter of news-monging But a more cheerful moment was when Mank, his foreman, standing with him on the ice above the submerged Swogon told him that a sandbar made out into the lake at that point and that the locomotive was probably lodged on the bar, only a little way below the surface.