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"Don't you see how you are going to be hoisted with your own ammunition?" the little man went on spitefully. "What becomes of all your complaints of drunkenness and crime, when Mr. Colbrith can see with his own eyes what truly good people the MacMorroghs are? And what conclusion will he arrive at?
But he could not bring himself to the point of telling her the story of graft and misrule in which the MacMorroghs were the principals, and North and her uncle, by implication the backers. So he said: "It is rather a long story, and you would scarcely understand it. We have been having constant trouble with the MacMorroghs, the contractors, and there is a bad state of affairs in the grading camps.
Take it at the worst admitting that we may have to struggle along with the MacMorroghs for our general contractors; they can't addle the egg entirely, can they?" Ford tabulated it by length and breadth. "With the MacMorroghs in the forefront of things to steal and cheat and make trouble with the labor, and Mr.
It was Frisbie, and he asked a single question: "Say, Penfield, who was that fellow who rode around to the MacMorroghs' back door just after dark?" "It was Eckstein." The secretary let slip the name before he could lay hold of his discretion. "Oh: all right That's all," said the engineer; and he vanished.
The Italians are kicking again at the MacMorrogh Brothers' commissary because they have to pay two prices and get chuck that a self-respecting dog wouldn't eat; and, besides, they say they are quarrying rock which is true and getting paid by the MacMorroghs for moving earth. They struck at noon to-day."
"Sit down, Uncle Sidney, and let me tell you what happened at Horse Creek camp a week ago last night," he said evenly; and then he told the story of the attempt upon Ford's life, of the siege of the Nadia, of the terrible catastrophe which had involved all three of the MacMorroghs, the commissary staff, Eckstein, and the headquarters camp.
"Because he was hired to: because his masters, the MacMorroghs, and their master, North, have staked their roll on this last turn of the cards. I know too much, Adair. The president was sent over here to get rid of me. That failing, word was passed down the line that I was to be effaced.
"To a man up a tree you appear to be doing a whole lot, and doing it quickly, Ford," commented the lawyer, when they had passed camp after camp of the workers. Then he added: "You are not having any trouble with the MacMorroghs, are you?" "Not what the legal department would call trouble," answered Ford evasively; and for ten other miles the narrowness of the bridle-path discouraged conversation.
Are the buckboards here for that?" "They're here wid the drivers. I saw to that part of it myself." It was the youngest of the three MacMorroghs who gave the assurance. "So far so good," commented the chairman. "The other thing we have to provide for, or rather, to prevent, is the possibility of Mr. Adair's reaching here in time to join the party. The last definite information we had of Mr.
"The MacMorroghs' outfit of a dozen or fifteen cutthroat scoundrels, captained, for the moment, by Eckstein, North's right-hand man, are doubtless just across the way in the back room of the commissary. You say the camp is otherwise deserted: the MacMorroghs don't know that you are here; and they do know that I am, dead or alive.
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