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He studied it attentively for a while; then he sent a telegram: MACBRIDE & COMPANY, Minneapolis: G.&M. R.R. wants to tie us up. Will not furnish cars to carry our cribbing. Can't get it elsewhere inside of three weeks. If so, can they have one or more steam barges at Manistogee within forty-eight hours? Wire Ledyard Hotel. It was an hour's ride back to Ledyard.
It was past twelve when we retired to rest, but my sleep was soon disturbed by some one coughing violently, and my thoughts instantly reverted to Michael Macbride, as the hoarse sepulchral sounds echoed through the large empty room beyond which he slept.
Captain MacBride was in charge of the squad, Chief Gunner Adamson placed the charges and the third gunner set them off.
MacBride now sounded his strongest bass. "Pardon me. I cannot accept such a view, sir. There is a levity abroad in our land which I must deplore. No matter how leniently you may try to put it, in the end we have the spectacle of a struggle between men where lying decides the survival of the fittest. Better, far better, if it was to come, that they had shot honest bullets.
He certainly can't blame us if " "That's got nothing to do with it," Bannon cut in shortly. "He don't pay us to make excuses; he pays us to do as we're told. When I have to begin explaining to MacBride why it can't be done, I'll send my resignation along in a separate envelope and go to peddling a cure for corns. What we want to talk about is how we're going to do it."
He had done excellent work work satisfactory even to MacBride & Company on a smaller scale, and so he had been given the opportunity, the responsibility, the hundreds of employees, the liberal authority, to make what he could of it all. There could be no doubt that he had made a tangle; that the big job as a whole was not under his hand, but was just running itself as best it could.
"We're off now, for sure," he said to Miss Vogel. "I've known that was coming sure as Christmas." Hilda picked it up. "Is there an answer, Mr. Bannon?" "No, just file it. Do you make it out?" She read it and shook her head. Bannon ignored her cool manner. "It means that your friends on MacBride & Company's Calumet house are going to have the time of their lives for the next few weeks.
MacBride had assigned to him, and in his enthusiasm he gave her a little idea of what it would mean to him, this opportunity to build an elevator the like of which had never been seen in the country before, and which would be watched by engineers from New York to San Francisco.
MacBride, the head of the firm, disliked unlucky men, and at the end of three months his patience gave out, and he telegraphed Charlie Bannon to leave the job he was completing at Duluth and report at once at the home office.
He learned that Porter was in, and all seemed to be going well until he mentioned MacBride & Company, after which Mr. Porter became very elusive. Three or four attempts to pin him down, or at least to learn his whereabouts, proved unsuccessful, and at last Bannon, with wrath in his heart, started down town.
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