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Fallon was appointed Lecturer in Divinity. Because of the shortage of funds it was decided that no further appointments could then be made and that only absolutely necessary expenses should be incurred.
"There she goes!" he roared, and turning, slid hastily from the top and leaped into the waiting bateau. "Let 'er go!" he shouted. Fallon and Stromberg leaped forward and simultaneously their peaveys bit into the smaller of the two key-logs. Both big men heaved and strained, once, twice, thrice, and the log turned slowly, allowing the end of the other to pass.
It's Diablesse the loup-garou!" "'Tis none other that last. But, man! Man! The first wan! Was it a human cry or from the throat of another of her hell-begotten breed?" Without waiting to reply the Frenchman swung the big six-team in their tracks and headed them toward camp. But Irish Fallon reached for him as he fumbled at the clevis. "Howld on, ye frog-eater! Be a man!
Fallon," said Frank, "I have come to see if the field is really for sale." "I hardly know, one doesn't like to do away with one's property." "You told me you would tell me this evening." "Yes, I know, but, it's a good field." "It may be." "There's a stream running through it." "I know." "You would not have to dig a well, and a well costs a great deal of money." "Sometimes."
Take advice, Bill, an' kape on th' good side av um av ye can. He'll t'row ut into ye wid all manner av dhirty thricks, but howld ye're timper, an' maybe ye'll winter ut out an' maybe ye won't." "What is a bird's-eye game?" Fallon glanced at him sharply. "D'ye mane ye don't know about th' bird's-eye?" he asked. "Not a thing," replied Bill. "Thin listen to me.
By evening she had a position in an insurance agent's office with wages upon which she could live with fair decency. As it had rained all day and her employer wanted her to begin the next morning, she had the best possible excuse for renting a room in Fallon and asking Bill to ride in horseback with some things which she would ask Aunt Rose, over the telephone, to pack.
"I am much obliged, Fallon, for what you have told me," replied Bill quietly; "but inasmuch as I am working for Appleton, I will just make it my business to look after his interests in whatever way possible. I guess I will take a hand in the bird's-eye game myself. I am not afraid of Moncrossen and his gang of thieves. Anyway, I will give them a run for their money." Fallon shrugged.
Bisbee was here" asked Craig. "Why, no, sir you didn't ask that. You asked to see all who are here now. There is only one who has left, the cook, Bridget Fallon. She left a couple of days ago said she was going back to New York to get another job. Glad enough I was to get rid of her, too, for she was drunk most of the time after the typhoid appeared."
The tote-road leading to the new camp had been pushed to completion, and Appleton was giving Fallon some final instructions. "I must leave for Minneapolis in the morning," he said. "Do the best you can, and I will run up as often as possible." "Oi'll do ut, sorr," replied Irish. "Oi c'n lay down th' logs all roight; th' throuble'll be wid th' figgers.
"Are they guaranteeing this wage for as long as you want to work." Apparently they had decided, too, that there should be no bargaining. "We want our time," Fallon reiterated. "This is going to be a man's year on the river!" "You, also?" Steve inquired of Shayne. That worthy gloated too. "Yes, me also," he came back, "an' a hundred others, before the ice goes out."
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