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"You don't really mean to say, major," she began in her dryest, grittiest manner, "that instead of sending to San Francisco for some skilled master-mechanic, you are going to listen to the vagaries of a conceited, half-educated farm-laborer, and employ him? You might as well call in some of those wizards or water-witches at once."
I was two days stealing this story, between the blushes of the mechanical Superintendent. He related, also, that a man wearing high-cut trousers and milk on his boot had entered his office when he had got to his first position as master-mechanic and held out a hand, smiling, "Vell, you don't know me yet, ain't it? I'm Martin the fireman; I quit ranchin' already, an' I want a jobs."
Between temporary disgrace for her husband, and hunger for her children, and she was not long in making up her mind. The baby had been without milk that day. It had gone to bed hungry for the first time in its life, and the thought of it made her desperate. To Cowels's way of reasoning it was simply a question of choice between the position of master of the Brotherhood and master-mechanic.
Next thing he knew they dropped in on him; and he is just crazy enough to stay here, and to keep them here. That wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for Gridley, Fred's boss and your peach of a master-mechanic."
To apply the term "living matter" to the tools with which a living structure is built up, is to lose sight of the master-mechanic using them for an apparently intelligent purpose.
On the following morning he found that official at his desk and told his story. He had just arrived from England with a wife and three children and a few dollars. "That's all right," said the master-mechanic; "I'll give you a job on Monday morning." This was Saturday, and during the day the first foreman with whom the Englishman had talked wired that if he would return to E. he could find work.
The action of Guerin was no surprise, as he was employed in the office of the master-mechanic, and has always been regarded as a company man almost as an official. Guerin, having put in a fresh fire, stood watching the face of his companion, and when the engineer crumpled the message in his hand and ground his teeth together the fireman shoved another message under the nose of the unhappy man.
He was over the road last week, and I happened to be in Goodloe's office at Little Butte when he got off to look around," was the curt rejoinder. "But that doesn't help any. What do you know?" "He is a gentleman," said Gridley slowly. "Oh, the devil! what do I care about " "And a scholar," the master-mechanic went on imperturbably. The buckboard driver's black eyes snapped.
The advice was sound, and the man who gave it was friendly and apparently ingenuous. But prejudices, like prepossessions, are sometimes as strong as they are inexplicable, and while Lidgerwood freely accused himself of injustice toward the master-mechanic, a certain feeling of distrust and repulsion, dating back to his first impressions of the man, died hard.
Judson was looking the master-mechanic fairly in the eyes when he said, "No, I don't remember a thing about that." "Try again," said Gridley, and now the shrewd gray eyes under the brim of the soft-rolled felt hat held the engineer helpless. "I guess I do remember it now," said Judson, slowly, trying, still ineffectually, to break Gridley's masterful eyehold upon him.
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