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But there was something sinister and nerve-racking here. He wanted to throw open the door and shout the news to those outside. By the light of another match the mine-owner crossed the room into the sitting-room of the cashier. Presently he returned with a lamp and let its light fall upon the figure lying slumped against the wall. A revolver lay close to the inert fingers.
Yet Lidgerwood fancied that of the group circling the fire, Flemister was the one whose eyes turned oftenest toward the sheeted figures across the track; sometimes in morbid starings, but now and again with the haggard side-glance of fear. Why was the mine-owner afraid? Lidgerwood analyzed the query shrewdly. Was he implicated in the matter of the loosened rail?
Thus, though he had paid the highest wages, he joined the Mine-owners' Association, engineered the fight, and effectually curbed the growing insubordination of the wage-earners. Times had changed. The old days were gone forever. This was a new era, and Daylight, the wealthy mine-owner, was loyal to his class affiliations.
Atherton the big game-hunter, Atherton the mine-owner, he knew perfectly but Atherton the New York broker, Atherton married, he was unacquainted with and he was trying to adjust and consolidate the two personalities. It was the same Atherton but more human, more humble, if such a word could be applied to an American millionaire.
There was a slight smile on his face, which did not abate when he nodded to Dunke amiably. "You?" exclaimed the mine-owner angrily. "Why, yes me. Hope we didn't inconvenience you, seh, by postponing the coyote's journey to Kingdom Come. My friend had to take a hand because he is a ranger, and I sat in to oblige him. No hard feelings, I hope." "Did you Are you all safe?" Margaret asked.
He knows that the wind will deaden the sound of the dynamite and that the snow will wipe out any tracks that might help to identify him and his pal or show which way they have gone." The coroner took charge of the body and Wally of the bank. The mine-owner and the district attorney walked up to the hotel together.
When he came with Flemister into the circle of light cast by the smaller of the two fires, Miss Brewster not only welcomed the mine-owner; she immediately introduced him to her friends, and made room for him on the flat stone which served her for a seat. Lidgerwood sat on a tie-end a little apart, morosely observant.
Strong told me how you risked your life by carrying him through the storm how you wouldn't give up and leave him, though you were weak and staggering yourself. He says it was a miracle you ever got through." The big mine-owner brushed this aside as of no importance. "We don't leave sick men to die in a blizzard up North. But that's not the point."
For the first time in a week he felt at one with creation. He rode into the ranch plaza humming "Dixie." On the day following that of Lee's call, the mine-owner saddled his mare and took the trail to the half-way house. It was not until after the stage had come and gone that he found the chance for a word with Melissy alone. "Your father submitted my proposition, did he?"
Dick handed him Presby's order, and the man read it through in surly silence; then his entire attitude underwent a swift change. He became almost obsequiously respectful. "I'll have to go down and have a talk with Mr. Presby," he said, and would have ventured a further remark, but was cut short by the mine-owner. "Yes, you'd better go and see him," Dick said concisely.
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