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A truck had arrived while they were talking, and the men were unloading some great rolls of paper, enormous spools. "What would dad say if he saw what his trees had come to?" Joe thought, as he stood for a moment looking them over, his mind going back to his father's letter. One roll of wood pulp had already been jacked up and was now feeding the mighty press.
"You said we were going to live in a camp. Where is it?" Jim pointed to the first structure. "There! It's the cabin of an old vessel that came ashore here in a southerly gale years ago. Uncle Tom jacked it up a foot, put in a good floor, and made it into a first-rate camp. It's got bunks for half a dozen, and at a pinch could hold more. The roof's a bit leaky, but we'll soon fix that.
"The Old Man has jacked up more than one of the best engineers for allowing it. Why, the Governor had to get a permit from the general manager for his son to ride in the cab of the Flyer only last week, and for some reason they've shut down on our freight people entirely.
Or if there was home inspectors, same as there are for factories, the old man would have been jacked up for violatin' the labor laws. But being only a daughter, there's nobody to step in and remind him that slavery has gone out of style and that in most states the female of the species was gettin' to be a reg'lar person.
And then the damaged wheel was jacked up and a new shoe with its inner tube was put on and inflated. All told, the job took the boys a full half-hour, for the new shoe was a tight fit and did not want to go over the rim at first. "Hello, what do you know about this!" cried Phil, as they were finishing the blowing up of the tube. "It's raining!"
Davilof gave her his arm down the steps. "What do you mean, miladi?" he asked. "There is no more beautiful dancing in the world." "Then why have you jacked up your job of accompanist? Shoes beginning to pinch a little, eh?" shrewdly. "You mean I grow too big for my boots? No, madame.
Then, still with an easy, leisurely air he jacked up one wheel and removed an axle cap. He was intent upon his work now curiously intent. He removed the wheel and smeared the inside of the hub with the filthy looking grease. His horse beyond the fence gave another whinny, which ended in a welcoming neigh. The man did not even look up. He replaced the wheel and spun it round.
At the first turn of the lower landing she stopped short, with every ennui-darkened sense in her body "jacked" like a wild deer's senses before the sudden dazzle of sight, sound, scent that awaited her below. Before her blinking eyes she saw even the empty, humdrum hotel office turned into a blazing bower of palms and roses and electric lights.
Their lights picked out object after object below a huge group of sculptured figures in the middle; some kind of a motor vehicle jacked up on trestles for repairs; things that looked like machine-guns and auto-cannon; long tables, tops littered with a dust-covered miscellany; machinery; boxes and crates and containers.
Most of us have probably forgotten the details of that Nicaraguan landing; but unless they have been jacked out lately a company of those marines are still there, looking out for American interests. Only a company, but still hanging on. Courage, ingenuity, industry they need them all.
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