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Paying thirty-eight now and that leaves me short-handed even with the boats I'm working." "How many boats has Mascola?" The girl was silent for a moment. Then she answered: "Can't say. Somewhere about fifty, maybe more. It's hard to check him up. His boats cruise a long way out and some of them don't put in to Legonia at all." "What kind of fish are you catching now?"
This afternoon when the foreign fishermen were peaceably engaged with their seine, they were brutally attacked by a number of ex-soldiers and sailors employed by the Legonia Fish Cannery, and driven from the beach. Gregory read no further. "It's a lie, Mr. Dupont," he said hotly. "My men do not pick fights. A few nights ago the alien fishermen endeavored to crowd them off the beach and they " Mr.
Scarcely able to credit their sight, the villagers saw the magnate of Legonia led forth from the Golden Rule Cannery in the custody of strangers. Strangers who spoke and acted with an air of authority and displayed shining badges to part the crowd as they walked with their prisoner to meet the small boat from the cutter. Then came Blankovitch wearing hand-cuffs.
In times of stress, the diverse threads of commonplace existence may merge into a single strand. Then it is that casual acquaintances become friends, when man rubs elbow with man and hearts beat together in mutual sympathy and understanding. Jack McCoy returned to Legonia saddened by the loss of an old friend; gladdened by the belief that he had found a new one.
When the Bennington entered Crescent Bay followed by the Richard towing the Fuor d'Italia, excitement was rife at Legonia. And as the boats came to anchor off the Golden Rule Cannery a large crowd of curious village-folk collected on the dock. The consensus of opinion, in Silvanus Rock's absence, was expressed by the local postmaster.
The aliens had come upon him from around the point in ever-increasing numbers. Had hedged him and taken his school. When the cannery boats arrived the albacore quit biting and took to other waters. Dickie Lang issued orders for the return of the fleet to Legonia. Then she vented her wrath on Kenneth Gregory. "So you thought you had Mascola beaten, did you? What did I tell you?
The hopeful expression which had leaped to Rock's face gave place to one of gloom. Then he asked: "What is the nature of your claim?" A gleam of hope entered Rock's beady eyes. "Between you and me, Mr. "The Legonia Fish Cannery is pretty much involved at the present time. Their organization is one which might cause you some difficulty in securing the amount of your claim.
Gregory shook his head blankly. "I don't even know who he is," he answered. Hawkins laughed. "He seems to know you all right," he answered. Then he explained: "Black is the editor of The Legonia Star. A man by the name of Rock owns it." Shall the control of our fisheries pass into foreign hands? Riot among Legonia fishermen raises interesting question.
Thought I'd better refer him to you." Rock's thick lips closed grimly. "Show him in," he ordered, and bit savagely at his cigar. Mr. "We have a little account with the Legonia Fish Cannery," he began. "As it is some time past due we were beginning to get a little anxious. A word from you will put us straight." "What's the amount of your claim?" "Twelve hundred and thirty-five dollars."
These he had unraveled with the aid of Farnsworth, the attorney for the estate. Then he had come to Legonia and found plenty to do. Blair, the former manager of the Legonia Fish Cannery, had suffered an attack of pneumonia and was ill at a neighboring sanitarium. From him he could therefore learn nothing. The books of the company told him but little more.
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