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They are not; they are merely the employees of a close corporation. Among the profit sharers you'll find the MacMorroghs at the top, and Mr. North's little ring of Denver officials close seconds." "Do you honestly believe that, Ford?" "I do. I can't prove it, of course. If I could, I'd go to New York and fight it out.
So far from helping, they'd make it exceedingly difficult for any sheriff who should have the temerity to come in here in the discharge of his duty." "You foresaw all this before the contract was awarded?" "Not all though I had been told that the MacMorroghs ran 'open camps' where the work was far enough from civilization to take the curse off.
Goin' past the bank, who would I see but our old bookkeeper, Merriam, chinnin' wid the bank president. I thought he was out o' the way entirely." Stiff and saddle-sore as he was, Eckstein leaped out of his chair with an oath. "Merriam? What the devil is he back here for? It's a put-up job!" It was the chief of the MacMorroghs who flung in the calming word.
Eckstein took a fall out of you one way, even if he did fail in the other; he kept you safely shut up at Tortoni's while Mr. North and the chief of the MacMorroghs got away on a special train for New York. Beard, the Union Station operator, told me. Which means that they'll have a full day with Mr. Colbrith and the executive committee before you can possibly get there to butt in."
The golden youth was the bearer of tidings, but Ford held up his hand for silence: some one was breaking in to reply from Frisbie's Frisbie, himself, as the minimized tickings speedily announced. Ford snipped out his call for help in the fewest possible words: Arm M'Grath's gang and bring it by train to Horse Creek, quick. MacMorroghs are trying to dynamite us in the Nadia.
"You remember what I hinted at, yesterday," he said in low tones; "about the rough-house we have been having in the camps. It hasn't stopped short of murder. I objected to the MacMorroghs before the contract was given to them; and since, I have fought the lawlessness as I could. Now your uncle comes over here and doesn't find any lawlessness. What is the inference?"
Ford," he said, "and, of course, I'm not supposed to know more than I see and hear in the regular way of business. But I understood that the MacMorroghs were in the saddle; that they were only waiting for you to provide track-room at Saint's Rest for their tool cars and outfit." "No," said Ford. "It hasn't got that far along yet." Eckstein looked at his watch.
That fusillade of his will have turned the entire camp out by this time, and the Macs don't want any inconvenient witnesses." "Witnesses?" echoed Adair. "Then you don't know Say, Stuart; there isn't a white man in this camp besides us three unless you count the MacMorroghs and their commissary garrison as white men.
"Don't let me keep you, if there is anything else you want to do, Mr. Ford; but I'll confess you've aroused my curiosity. What is the matter with the MacMorroghs?" Ford answered the question by asking another. "Do you know them, Mr. Eckstein?" "Why yes; as Mr.
You know, or ought to know, the MacMorroghs: their camps are not exactly models of propriety, Mr. Colbrith." This was merely waving a red flag at an already exasperated bull. The president got upon his feet, and his shrill falsetto cut the air like a knife. "Mr. Ford, when I wish to be told what is or is not proper for me to do, I'll ask you for an opinion, sir. But this is quite beside the mark.
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