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Updated: June 11, 2025
Three small rosy clouds hung motionless overhead in the great depth of blue. Knots of people sat in the street between the wattled huts. Before the casa of the alcalde, the foremen of the night-shift, already assembled to lead their men, squatted on the ground in a circle of leather skull-caps, and, bowing their bronze backs, were passing round the gourd of mate.
There were perhaps two hours in which it was difficult to see at a distance, but the dawn came early, hence no provision had been made for torches. Five minutes before the hour the night-shift boss lowered the gates in the dam, and, as the rush from the sluices subsided, his men quit work and climbed the bluff to the mess tent.
Fully five minutes of incoherent rejoicing followed, and then details might be rounded off. The fireman had to stand by his engine on the night-shift in an hour's time, but he saw his way to a pipe, and lit it. "They're always interested to hear the ending-up of things at the Station," said he, to account for himself and his presence, "and I made it convenient to call round at the Ward.
"How long sence you mine?" "Oh, year or two." "Show your hends." McTeague exhibited his hard, callused palms. "When ken you go to work? I want a chuck-tender on der night-shift." "I can tend a chuck. I'll go on to-night." "What's your name?" The dentist started. He had forgotten to be prepared for this. "Huh? What?" "What's the name?"
One of the convicts, a baker, was on the first night-shift. He was a stool of the Captain of the Yard, and Winwood knew it. "To-night," he told the Captain, "Summerface will bring in a dozen '44 automatics. On his next time off he'll bring in the ammunition. But to- night he'll turn the automatics over to me in the bakery. You've got a good stool there. He'll make you his report to-morrow."
Bryce closed by wire for the extra logging- equipment and immediately set about rounding up a crew for the woods and for the night-shift in the mill. For a month Bryce was as busy as the proverbial one-armed paper- hanger with the itch, and during all that time he did not see Shirley Sumner or hear of her, directly or indirectly.
A swift panic seized Dick; he snatched up his candle and ran back the way he had come. It was hours, he imagined, since he lay listening to Rogers and Shine above the quarry, and he wondered that the night-shift men were not below long ere this. He reached the balance shaft without having seen a man, and climbed swiftly to the upper level.
So in the upshot Jurgen was never to forget that moment wherein he waited behind the door, and through the crack between the half-open door and the door-frame saw Guenevere approach irresolutely, a wavering white blur in the dark corridor. She came to talk with him where they would not be bothered with interruptions: but she came delightfully perfumed, in her night-shift, and in nothing else.
He made his money quick, and as far as we knew, right here in town. Then, this Diablo stuff gave me a hunch." Gregory looked up quickly at the mention of the island. "Easy on the Diablo stuff, Bill," he cautioned. "Aunt Mary doesn't know much about that." When supper was over, Jack McCoy rose hastily. "I must be getting back," he said. "We have a big night-shift and fish to burn.
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