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As the days had gone by these conversations had been confined more and more rigidly to necessary business, and though this result was Peterson's own bringing about, still he charged it up as another of his grievances against Bannon.
And so he had come on the job this evening, at a time when he supposed Bannon safe in bed, and delivered his ultimatum. Not that he had any hope of carrying the strike through without some sort of a collision with the boss, but he well knew that an encounter after the strike had gathered momentum would be easier than one before.
After she had closed her desk at supper time, she saw Bannon come into the circle of the electric light in front of the office, and, asking Max to wait, she went to meet him. "Well," he said, "are you loaded up to fight the 'power of the union'?" She smiled, and then said, with a trace of nervousness: "I don't believe I'm quite so sure about it as I was this morning." "It won't bother you much.
Bannon, no Comte Remy de Morbihan.... He regarded this circumstance, however, with more vexation than surprise: De Morbihan would surely show up in time; meanwhile, it was annoying to be obliged to wait, to endure this martyrdom of ennui.
Her crew had clearly been impressed with the need of hurry, for long before she could be worked into the wharf they had rigged the two hoists and got the donkey engines into running order. The captain stood by the rail on the bridge, smoking a cigar, his hand on the bell-pull. "Where do you want it?" he called to Bannon. "Right here, where I'm standing.
He's the one that was with Grady." "I'd like to know what he thinks he's doing here." Peterson started forward, adding, "I guess I know what to say to him." "Hold on, Pete," said Max, catching his arm. "Maybe we'd better speak to Mr. Bannon. I'll go down and tell him, and you keep an eye on this fellow."
He paused, as though there was nothing more to tell. "Don't stop there," said Max. "Why," he went on, "I crawled along the floor till I got to a chair, and I just knocked 'em around with that till they was quiet." Bannon looked at his watch; then he took Brown's letter from his pocket. "It's from the office," he said. "We've got to have the bins full before New Year's Day."
Bannon called me Lucia because he knew I didn't like it, to tease me; for the same reason he always kept up the pretence that I was his daughter when people misunderstood." "But if that is so then what ?" "Why it's very simple." Still she didn't look up. "I'm a trained nurse. Mr.
Bannon repeated, and there was something in his voice that caused the delegate to check a second retort. "You'll kill these men if you work them like this. They've been on the job all day." Bannon was beginning to see that Grady was more eager to make trouble than to uphold the cause of the men he was supposed to represent. In his experience with walking delegates he had not met this type before.
So he said: "Well, what are you asking?" "These gangs ought to be relieved every two hours." "I'll do it. Now clear up those timbers." The delegate turned with a scowl, and waved the men back to their work. In a moment the track was clear, and the train was moving slowly onward between the long lines of men. Bannon started the gangs at work.
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