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"We were just trying to catch you, Mr. Heegan." "Oh-ho! An' it's mighty flattered I am," said Mr. Heegan, his Irish brogue coming to the fore. "An' what, if I might be askin' you " "It's a book we left here," Billie broke in quickly. "Laura wants to know if you will let us in long enough to get it." "Sure, an' I will that," Mr.
When a delegation of strikers met her, inquirin' about one D. O'Hara Heegan, it says like this," and Billings read laboriously as follows:
"I forgot all about the resiliency of brickbats and the table manners of riots, for there, on top of a bunch of spiles, ca'm, masterful and bloated with perjuries, was Oily Heegan dictatin' the disposition of his forces, the light of victory in his shifty, little eyes. "'Ten dollars and costs, I shrieks, seein' red. 'Lemme crawl up them spiles to you. "Then inspiration seized me.
"These clippings," continued "Bitter Root," fishing into his pocket, "tell in beautiful figgers how the last seen of Oily Heegan he was holystoning the deck of a sooty little tugboat under the admonishments and feet of 'Bitter Root' Billings of Montana, and they state how the strikers tried to get tugs for pursuit and couldn't, and how, all day long, from the housetops was visible a tugboat madly cruisin' about inside the outer cribs, bustin' the silence with joyful blasts of victory, and they'll further state that about dark she steamed up the river, tired and draggled, with a bony-lookin' cowboy inhalin' cigareets on the stern-bits, holding a three-foot knotted rope in his lap.
"I jerked back, and Oily Heegan did a high dive from Rush Street that was a geometrical joy. He hit kind of amateurish, doin' what we used to call a 'belly-buster' back home, but quite satisfyin' for a maiden effort, and I reeled him in astern. "Your Chicago man ain't a gamey fish.
Of course, you have the privilege of working it out. Oh, Glory, the 'Privilege! "Heegan nodded at this, and I realized what I was against. "'Your honour, says I with sarcastic refinements, 'science tells us that a perfect vacuum ain't possible, but after watching you I know better, and for you, Mr. Workingman's Friend, us to the floor, and I run at Heegan. "Pshaw!
Heegan, with a nod, looking not nearly as shocked as the girls thought he would. "And sure, what are you made young for, if it wasn't that you was meant to be skylarkin' all the time?" The girls looked at each other. This strange sentiment had never occurred to them before, but they found it very comforting, nevertheless. "But but," stammered Billie, "this statue cost a hundred dollars.
"These here details my new friend give me, ending with a eulogy on Oily Heegan, the Idol of the Idle. "'If he says starve, we starve, says he, 'and if he says work, we work. See! Oh he's the goods, he is! Let's go down by the river mebbe we'll see him. So me and Murdock hiked down Water Street, where they keep mosquito netting over the bar fixtures and spit at the stove.
"That would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire," remarked Violet, at which the girls had to laugh. As they swung out through the gate they met Mr. Heegan coming in, and he smiled at them from under his bushy brows. "Did you get what you were after comin' for?" he asked them. "Yes.
"D. O'Hara Heegan is an able man, and inside of a week he'd spread the strike 'till it was the cleanest, dirtiest tie-up ever known. The hospitals and morgues was full of non-union men, but the river was empty all right. Yes, he had a persuadin' method of arbitration quite convincing to the most calloused, involving the layin' on of the lead pipe.
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