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The others watched him furtively, as Jim told Maggie afterwards "from the tail of me eye." He knew his work. They soon saw that. Every stroke told. The doors were shut at last and the electric lights turned on. Up to the stroke of four the men worked like automatons chip-chip-chipping. Now and then there was some chaffing, good-natured if rough.
Thurston nodded assent with certain mental reservations; so far the editors couldn't seem to make up their minds that it was poetry. "Well, say, I wish you'd slap in a lot uh things about hazy, lazy, daisy days in the spring that jingles fine! and green grass and the sun shining and making the hills all goldy yellow, and prairie dogs chip-chip-chipping on the 'dobe flats.
Now and then Champney caught his eye turned upon him half-appealingly; but they spoke no word; chip-chip-chipping, they worked on. The sun set; electricity illumined the shed. Antoine worked with desperation; Luigi wrought steadily, carefully, beautifully his heart seeking expression in every stroke.
Silent, their tears raining upon the awed and upturned faces of the children, they, too, knelt; but no sound of sobbing profaned the great peaceful silence that was broken only by the faint chip-chip-chipping monotone from Shed Number Two. In that four men were at work. Champney Googe was one of them. He was expecting them at this appointed time.
There were three hundred men at work in this shed, and the ringing chip-chip-chipping monotone from the hundreds of hammers and chisels, filled the great space with industry's wordless song that has its perfect harmony for him who listens with open ears and expansive mind.
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