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Jimmie Higgins talked solemnly to Lizzie of moving to Hubbardtown tempted thereto by the signs he saw in an agency which had been set up in a vacant store on Main Street. The Hubbard Engine Company was trying to steal old man Granitch's workers, and was offering thirty-two cents an hour for semi-skilled labour!
The other began to argue with him, showing that it wouldn't hurt anybody; the explosion would take place at night, and all that would be damaged would be Abel Granitch's purse.
"Has he got any of the old man Granitch's money?" shrilled "Wild Bill". "Or maybe he doesn't know that Granitch is spending money to get smart young lawyers to help keep his munition slaves at work?" Norwood, having thrown the fat into the fire, sat down for a while and let it blaze.
It was a costly game you would be lucky if a third of the players came out alive; but if you could get one man to the machine-gun with a bayonet, you had won the game because he would take the gun and turn it about on the retreating Germans, and could kill enough of them in a minute to make up for the losses of his squad. Lacey Granitch's shoulder healed, and he went back to his job.
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