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Afterward there were several rapid creeks to be forded, and Kermode was wet and Miss Foster very tired when they camped at sunset, in a grove of spruce. Little was said during the evening meal and soon after it was over the girl sought her tent, while Kermode found a resting-place among the withered sprays at the foot of a tree.
Every machine-shop in your country's full of labor-saving and ingenious tools, but when you build bridges with them they fall down, and I've seen tanks that wouldn't hold water." "Oh, well," said Prescott, divided between amusement and impatience, "this isn't to the point. I understand Kermode was here with you?" "He was.
After catechizing Kermode severely, she gave a very qualified assent; and returning to the hotel, he found the girl anxiously waiting for him. She looked relieved when he reported his success. "I had better go at once," she said. "You think Mrs. Jasper will take me in?" Kermode picked up the bag. "To tell the truth, she only promised to have a look at you." Then he smiled reassuringly.
The trial of a convict charged with disobedience or insubordination was of summary jurisdiction. Joe Kermode, a teamster, chanced to be present at one of these trials. It was about ten o'clock in the morning when he saw near a house on the roadside a little knot of men at an open window.
Nobody could remember who struck the first blow, but Kermode's left hand was injured, and he clinched as soon as he could. For a few minutes the men reeled about the track; and then with a tense effort Kermode pushed the foreman off the bank and went down with him.
When the police had ridden off with their prisoners, Morgan, the engineer, sent for Kermode. "I've seen the sergeant and he gave me an outline of the affair," he said. "It was cleverly thought out I suppose the idea was yours?" "I can't deny it," returned Kermode modestly. "Well," said the other, "see that your friends and you begin work as usual to-morrow."
The man drove on, but Kermode was not to be daunted by such a difficulty; besides, he had noticed Jim, the hired man, dawdling about the outside of the stable. When the buggy was out of sight, he accosted him. "I want the roan in half an hour," he said. "I see you have Mrs. Leaver's saddle here, and as she's away, you had better put it on. I'm going to take the lady you saw with me to Drummond."
"S'pose you have seen the boss about it?" "You must have noticed me talking to him," Kermode replied curtly. "Bring the horse along to Mrs. Jasper's as soon as you're ready." Then he returned to the hotel and wrote a note which he gave the bar-tender, instructing him to let the proprietor of the livery-stable have it when he came in for dinner.
"Oh, yes," said one of them; "we know him all right. Glad to meet a man who's a friend of his; but if you expect a job here, you don't want to mention it. If another fellow of that kind comes along, the boss will get after him with a gun." "Kermode," the Englishman explained, "is a man of happy and original thoughts. I believe I might say he is unique."
Kermode had been unloading rails all day, and he was standing on the veranda one evening when a supply train from the east was due. It appeared that he had renewed his wardrobe at the local store and invariably changed his clothes when his work was finished.
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