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Updated: June 20, 2025
"To-morrow morning then, at four o'clock. Meet me at our dock and I'll show you I know what I'm talking about." Gregory promised and the girl hurried out. For some time the young cannery owner scratched busily at the pad of paper before him, jotting down the substance of his interview with Dickie Lang.
He got a courteous but unsatisfactory reception from the cannery men. He fared a little better with the manager of the cold-storage plant. This gentleman was tentatively agreeable in the matter of purchasing salmon, but rather vague in the way of terms. "Beginning with May next I can deliver any quantity up to two thousand a day, perhaps more, for a period of about four months," MacRae stated.
What few small voices arose, suggesting that the deadly purse seine had never been considered deadly when only canneries had been permitted to use such gear and that they had not worried about the extermination of the salmon so long as they did the exterminating themselves and found it highly profitable, these few voices, alas, arose only in minor strains and were for the most part drowned by the anvil chorus of the cannery men.
A few Indians stolidly awaited the arrival of a small boat containing one of our fellow-passengers. Then for some hours this boat was busily plying to and fro, bringing out to us all that was portable of a once flourishing, or at least promising, fishery and cannery, now defunct. Meanwhile the mosquitoes boarded our ship on a far more profitable speculation.
Granting that Gregory arrived within the next half-hour, what could he possibly accomplish in so short a time? All McCoy's efforts to confer with Rock had been fruitless. The bank president could not be located and had left but one word. He would be at the cannery at four o'clock.
Even from where I was sitting, I could see that these harsh words had hit the old Bassington-Bassington family pride a frightful wallop. He started to get pink in the ears, and then in the nose, and then in the cheeks, till in about a quarter of a minute he looked pretty much like an explosion in a tomato cannery on a sunset evening. "What the deuce do you mean?"
It was one-thirty already. Not much chance of reaching Legonia in time to accomplish much to-day. "Tell McCoy I'll be at the cannery before four o'clock." Dickie flashed a glance at the clock on the Richard's dash at Gregory's words. Every minute was going to count. It was up to the speed-boat to show what she could do. Opening the cut-out, the girl began to get the speed-craft under way.
She had seen Chester Johnson kill a scab, and now they were going to hang Chester Johnson, who had married Kittie Brady out of the cannery, and she and Kittie Brady had worked together years before in the paper box factory. Vainly Saxon waked for Billy to say something that would show he did not countenance the killing of the scabs. "It was wrong," she ventured finally.
"If you want to handle something honest, I'll let you place some of this cannery stock on a commission." "I don't see nothing attractive in that when I can sell stock of my own and keep all the money. Maybe I'll organize a cannery company of my own in Chicago " "If you do " Boyd exploded. "Very well! Don't get sore. I only just suggested the possibility.
But he could not work up any zeal for this form of town "loyalty." A big cannery had been built down near the river, where truck gardens flourished, and there was a new furniture factory at the edge of the freight yards.
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