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Mary Burke and Tim Rafferty, Cho the Korean and Madvik the Croatian one by one these individualities etched themselves into the foreground of Hal's picture, making it a thing of life, moving him to sympathy and fellowship.
Afterwards, as they were on their way to supper, Madvik gave him the reason. "Red-faced feller, Gus. Look out for him company spotter." "Is that so?" said Hal, with interest. "How do you know?" "I know. Everybody know." "He don't look like he had much sense," said Hal who had got his idea of detectives from Sherlock Holmes. "No take much sense. Go pit-boss, say, 'Joe feller talk too much.
The first Hal knew of the accident was when he saw the body stretched out on a plank, with a couple of old sacks to cover it. He noticed that nobody stopped for a second glance. Going up from work, he asked his friend Madvik, the mule driver, who answered, "Lit'uanian feller got mash." And that was all. Nobody knew him, and nobody cared about him.
Besides Jeff Cotton, and his assistant, "Bud" Adams, who wore badges, and were known, there were other assistants who wore no badges, and were not supposed to be known. Coming up in the cage one evening, Hal made some remark to the Croatian mule-driver, Madvik, about the high price of company-store merchandise, and was surprised to get a sharp kick on the ankle.
"You won't say I told you," said Hal, anxiously. "Oh, no sure not." And Hal caught the trace of a smile on the pit-boss's face. He went away, smiling in his turn. The "red-faced feller. Gus," was the person Madvik had named as being a "spotter" for the company! There were ins and outs to this matter of "spotting," and sometimes it was not easy to know what to think.
You do anything bad, like talk union" Madvik had dropped his voice and whispered the word "union" "they send your picture don't get job nowhere in state. How you like that?" Before long Hal had a chance to see this system of espionage at work, and he began to understand something of the force which kept these silent and patient armies at their tasks.
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