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And Tibble Steelman, as has been before said, lived two lives, and that as foreman at the Dragon court, being habitual to him, and requiring much thought and exertion, the speculations of the reformers were to him more like an intellectual relaxation than the business of life. He took them as a modern artisan would in this day read his newspaper, and attend his club meeting.
The two at once went forth to organize opposition. When the attacking party reached the mill-yard, it found the boss and the foreman standing alone on the saw-dust, revolvers drawn. Daly traced a line with his toe. "The first man that crosses that line gets it," said he. They knew he meant what he said. An instant's pause ensued, while the big man and the little faced a mob.
I am anxious that it should 'boom' that is the correct term, is it not? and a sensation is good for 'booming. What an advertisement would ensue if the lovely daughter of an American millionaire should be in danger of drowning in the Long Cloud, and a rough but honest fellow a foreman on the river, maybe a young member of the English aristocracy in disguise perilled his life for her!
And he ate his pieces of bread and drank his milk, and the foreman gave him two of some little thin molasses cookies that were all crackly and crumbly; for little crackly cookies like those aren't much like cake.
It ran around the edge of the valley, discharging at its gates streams of water like veins, which meshed the land, whereon men were working among young plants. "I'll put you in charge of a team, I think," the Major said, after talking with the foreman, a big, red-haired man, who looked at Arthur with his head thrown back and one eye shut.
As they reached the head of the first draw that led back down into the valley Harris waved an arm. "Carp," he called, and a middle-aged man named Carpenter, abbreviated to Carp, wheeled his horse from the group and headed down the draw. A half-mile farther on they reached the head of another gulch. "Hanson!" the new foreman called, and the man who repped for the Halfmoon D dropped out.
I asked the foreman if they had agreed upon a verdict, and he said, "We have, your Honor." I told the sheriff to rap for order, but it was some little time before it could be restored. I then told the jury to stand up and hear their verdict. The foreman read the verdict, which was: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty." I then told the defendant to stand up and hear his sentence.
I piked on over to Danders thinkin' I'd get on a train an' go somewhere; but on my way there I met the foreman o' the E. Z. outfit ridin' into town to see if he couldn't pick up a fence-rider. Then I see old Mrs. Fate nudgin' me in the ribs with her finger again. We was all down on fences at the Diamond Dot.
At first he was inclined to look upon it as a poor substitute for hard cash; but after the foreman had explained its mysteries, and taught him to sign his name in magic tracery, he became more than reconciled to it and drew cheques blithely, until one for five pounds was returned to a creditor: no funds and in due course returned to Happy Dick.
The foreman spoke with careful neutrality. "I did. I wisht now I'd laid the two of 'em out together. The dawg tried to feed offa my leg. I shot the blame thing." Charming Billy sat down upon the edge of the table sliding the dishpan out of his way and folded his arms, and pushed his hat farther back from his forehead. His whole attitude spoke impenitent scorn.
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