Her assistant, Alexis, a man of small scientific ability but a gifted mechanic, worked stolidly with her.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
He knew it by her wide, unseeing eyes, her strained, sallow face, the mechanic words, which were her only greeting.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
A good mechanic is fairly sure of three dollars a day, and fifty-two weeks' employment in the year.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter