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He and Peterson would divide the time equally into twelve-hour days; but three divisions were necessary for the men, the morning shift working from midnight until eight o'clock, the day shift from eight to four, and the night shift from four to midnight. Finally, when the whistle blew, at noon, Bannon tipped back his chair and pushed his hat back on his head. "Well," he said, "that's fixed."
Like a good strategist, he was planning Grady's campaign as carefully as his own. Finally he was recalled to his material surroundings by a rough voice which commanded, "Get off that keg and clear out. We don't allow no loafers around here." Turning, Bannon recognized one of the under-foremen. "That's a good idea," he said. "Are you making a regular patrol, or did you just happen to see me?"
"Yes," said Bannon, "I think you can. And if you can keep this out of the courts I'll write Brown that there's a young lady down here that's come nearer to earning a big salary than I ever did to deserving a silk hat." "Oh," she said, the earnest expression skipping abruptly out of her eyes; "did your hat come?" "Not a sign of it. I'd clean forgotten.
Bannon crossed to the section boss, who recognized him and without comment handed him a telegraphed order. "There's no getting around that," he said, when Bannon had read it. "That's straight from the old man." Bannon returned it, called Peterson, and hurried with him around the elevator to find Max, who was overseeing the piling. "What'll we do?"
"I believe you'll be comfortable," he said "that divan yonder is as easy a couch as one could wish and there's this door you can lock at the head of the staircase; while I, of course, will be on guard below.... And now, Miss Bannon... unless there's something more I can do ?" The girl answered with a wan smile and a little broken sigh.
MacBride was fond of saying that Bannon's tact in handling men was unequalled; but Bannon himself did not think of it in this way to him, trouble with the laborers or the carpenters or the millwrights meant loss of time and loss of money, the two things he was putting in his time to avoid; and until now he had found the maligned walking delegate a fair man when he was fairly dealt with.
Bannon; she's an A 1 stenographer and bookkeeper; and as for keeping the time, why, I'm out on the job all day anyhow, and I reckon I could take care of it without cutting into my work." Bannon looked quizzically down at him. "You don't know what you're talking about," he said slowly.
"Murder of faith in a woman's heart," he said slowly. "Look at me! Do I look the sort who'd play your dirty game?" The young man stood over him. "Bannon," he called. The valet entered the room. "Take the clothes off this this bum!" snapped the host. "Give him his rags." He clenched his fists, but the dummy-chucker merely shrugged.
There was a stamping outside, and she slipped back to the ledger, as the door flew open. Bannon turned to the blue prints. Max entered, pausing to knock his cap against the door, and wring it out. "You ought to have stayed out, Mr. Bannon," he said. "It's the greatest thing you ever saw doesn't sag an inch.
I told him that we treated our men all right and didn't need no help from him, and if I ever caught him out here again I'd carry him up to the top of the jim pole and leave him there. He went fast enough." "I wish he'd knocked you down first, to even things up," said Bannon. "Him! Oh, I could have handled him with three fingers." "I'm going out for a look around," said Bannon, abruptly.
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