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Old Thomas Thwaite had accompanied them from Cumberland, but the rooms had been taken for them by his son, Daniel Thwaite, who was at this time foreman to a somewhat celebrated tailor who carried on his business in Wigmore Street; and he, Daniel Thwaite, had a bedroom in the house in which the Countess lodged.
"You hear that, Buck?" he said, frowning across the anvil at his helper, a white man and the foreman of the pouring floor. The helper nodded, being a man of as few words as the master. "Well, I reckon we-all hain't got any call to stand by and see them highflyers ride it roughshod over Major Dabney thataway," said Gordon briefly. "Go down to the shanties and hustle out the day shift.
A foreman, if he's got a conscience and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it." "I know that, Adam; I know you work for him as well as if you were working for yourself.
When he returned Nicolas busied himself with getting supper and setting it on the table. Superintendent Renshaw returned from the work in time to join the others at table. "Mr. Reade, how are you going to protect the works to-night?" inquired the superintendent. "I'm going to order Foreman Corbett and twenty men to night duty," Tom answered. "The motor boat will also be out to-night.
The foreman asked my opinion upon various points of plantation management, but I deferred making answer until a subsequent occasion. In every case I told him to do for the present as they had been accustomed, and I would make such changes as I saw fit from time to time. Cotton-picking requires skill rather than strength.
Lorenzo saw y'u follered y'u watched y'u. Bruce pointed at the grinnin' greaser. 'Lorenzo is Kurnel Jorth's foreman. He seen y'u maulin' of Ellen Jorth. An' when he tells the Kurnel an' Tad Jorth an' Jackson Jorth! ... Haw! Haw! Haw! Why, hell 'd be a cooler place fer yu then this heah Tonto. "Greaves an' his gang hed come round, sure tickled clean to thar gizzards at this mess.
As a result of this state of affairs, we found a brother of the foreman occupying an easy position in the composing-room, a brother-in-law, two nieces, two nephews, and a son occupying easy positions at good salaries in the press-room and various other nephews and other semi-dependents working away under foremen who were related to them in the various departments.
"Oh!" again came from the distracted Angela. "But he want you. And so ..." "You're going to force me to marry him. I see!" She turned to the listening "Red." "And you'd let him force you on me, like this?" "It ain't my fault, Angela," the foreman assured her. "I didn't know he was going to do this! You know that." Lopez issued his ultimatum. "I am not going to force you to marry 'im.
He is dead: but he lives for ever enshrined in the noble tribute to his genius in Metatoron's Flames." Little Sampson seized the "copy" and darted with it to the composing-room, where Raphael was busy giving directions. By his joyful face Raphael saw the crisis was over. Little Sampson handed the manuscript to the foreman, then drawing a deep breath of relief, he began to hum a sprightly march.
He had by this time killed several men, certainly at least two white men; and how many Mexicans and Indians he had killed by fair means or foul will never be really known. His reputation as a gun fighter was well established. Dick Brewer, Tunstall's foreman, was now sworn in as a "special deputy" by McSween, and a war of reprisal was now on.
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