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Hence, we wait; and keep a growing army of laborers here under pay while we wait," said Ford, with disgust thinly masked. Then he added: "With all due respect to Mr. Colbrith, he is simply a senile frost!" Frisbie chuckled. "Been cooling your fingers, has he? But I understood from the headquarters people down-town, that the MacMorroghs had a sure thing on the grading and rock work.
Penfield sat still, with the cold chills running up and down his spine, while Eckstein went on talking to the two MacMorroghs. "This Merriam business complicates things like hell" he was growing coarsely profane in the grinding mill of events. "But it shows us where we stand. This thing has got to go through, and if it doesn't work out the way we've planned it, it's for us to find another way."
Colbrith over, in spite of all that has happened; and he shall fire North and the MacMorroghs first and prosecute them afterward. I've said it." It was just here that the broncos shied inward, toward the hill. Ford gathered the slack reins, and Miss Adair looked up and gave a little shriek.
The MacMorroghs' bookkeeper, a man named Merriam who is at present in Copah, and whose deposition I have had taken before a justice of the peace was detailed to win Frisbie over to the change of route no difficult thing, since the change was for the better. But Merriam's part was chiefly to keep Frisbie from finding out anything about Ford's mine; which he did. Am I making it clear?"
North has obstructed, quietly but persistently, ever since the first blow was struck on the extension. He has delayed material, when he could do it unofficially, he scants us for rolling stock and motive power, he stands in with the MacMorroghs and backs them against Ford every time there is a dispute. Ford is a patient man, Mr. Adair, but I think he has about reached the limit." "H'm.
The two MacMorroghs were bestirring themselves, and Penfield was slipping through the door into the commissary when Eckstein's fingers closed upon his arm. "Your part is to keep tab on the programme," he whispered "Get word instantly to Brian if there is any change.
And the whisky isn't all of it, or even the worst: there are women in some of these camps, and there would be more if Leckhard didn't stand guard at Saint's Rest and turn them back." "Heavens what a cesspool!" said the attorney. "Does a laboring man ever get out of here with any of his earnings?" "Not if the MacMorroghs can help it.
Colbrith; do that, and give me absolute authority over the MacMorroghs and their men for one week; and before the week's end we'll be hauling passengers and freight into Copah over our own rails." For a moment the president seemed to be on the point of yielding. Then his habitual caution thrust out its foot and tripped him. "I can't be pushed, Mr.
News of the great gold strike got here about three o'clock, and every laborer within hearing of it shouldered pick and shovel and lined out up the new track for Copah." "What!" shouted Ford. "And these dash-dashed MacMorroghs didn't try to hold them?" "I don't know about that. I had Mr.
"But can't you make the MacMorroghs do a little police work, for common decency's sake?" Ford shook his head. "They are quite on the other side of the fence, as I told you in the beginning. By winking at lawlessness of all kinds, their own particular brands of lawlessness, by which they and their backers make money, go unquestioned.
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