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I would hear, and then would see him rushing for the office, a defiant and even threatening mason at his heels; Rourke demanding that I make out a time-check at once for the latter and go down to the "ahffice" and get the money, the while the mason hung about attempting to seduce other men to a similar point of view.
He caught me grinnin'. 'You know who it was, says he. 'Sure I do, says I, 'but I'm a little tongue-tied. Then he told me he'd fire me if I didn't say who it was. 'Give me my time-check, says I, and he gave it. He found out afterward I was the man that dragged him out, and sent a letter up to Colusa askin' me to come back, but I didn't go.
Lidgerwood was adding another minute square to the pencilled checker-board on his desk blotter. "Discharge Johnston and hold back his time-check. Then have him arrested for stealing, and wire the legal department at Denver that I want him prosecuted." Again McCloskey's rough-cast face became the outward presentment of a soul in anxious trouble.
"I cut it out, along with the toddies, the day I put on my coat and hat and walked out of the old F. & P.M. offices without my time-check." "If it had to be both or neither, you were wise; whiskey and railroading don't go together very well. But about this other matter.
He spoke to the offender "Don't do that again if you want to stay on this job. You know there are men at work down there." Then: "Look here," he called, getting the attention of all the carpenters, "every man that drops anything into the bins gets docked an hour's pay. If he does it twice he leaves the job just as quick as we can make out a time-check. I want you to be careful."
"No, Collins; I'm not going to ask you the name of the other master for whom you have thrown me down," he said gravely; and then: "That's all you may go now." The young man got up and groped for the hat which had fallen from his hands to the floor and rolled away out of reach. "You mean that I'm to get my time-check?" he asked. "No," he grated the harshness returning suddenly.
Roger was standing at the chart table, audiophones on his ears, listening for the automatic astral chronometer time-check broadcast on a suprahigh-frequency audio channel from the giant electronic clock in the Tower of Galileo.
The boss grinned understandingly when he gave me my time-check for the four days. "I thought you wouldn't last very long at the stacking," he commented; "that's a man's job." Then: "Got any head for figures?" I faced him fairly. "I can't take a job of that kind." "Why can't you?" He got the reason in a single sentence. "Paroled man, hey? What was you in for?"
This road, however, is the one that discharged its engineer some years ago, and when he took his time-check he said he would now go to work for a sure-enough road with real iron rails to it, instead of two streaks of rust on a right of way. All night long, except when we were changing cars, we rattled along over wobbling trestles and third mortgages. The cars were graded from third-class down.
It may be the governing of a city, or teaching school, or running a business. We do not get out of bed in the morning because we are eager for the day; something external we often call it our duty throws off the bed-clothes, complains that the shaving water isn't hot, puts us into the subway and lands us at our office in season for punching the time-check.
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