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After the third hopeless attempt, Larry let go, and without a word bolted through the passage to the fire-room. "You miserable quitter!" Neville screamed after him, and bent again to the wheel. As he looked up, despairing of any chance to loosen the rusted valve, Larry came back on the run, carrying a coal-pick handle. He thrust it between the spokes of the wheel. "Now, Mr. Neville, all together!"
Poor, miserable, contemptible scab." "Never apply that name to me again!" shouted Guerin, and this time it was not his fist but the coal-pick he shoved up into the very face of the engineer. "Why?" "Because it is dangerous; you nearly lost your life." The engineer made no reply. "And what if you had?" the fireman went on, for it was his turn to talk now.
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