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They tried to kill me." Webb turned to Yankie. "You didn't leave this man alone overnight with that bunch of beeves for Major Strong?" "Sure I did. Why not?" demanded the foreman boldly. "We'll not argue that," said the boss curtly, "Go hunt you another job. You'll draw yore last pay-check from the Flying V Y to-day." "If you're loaded up with a notion that some one else could do better "
Blake no less swiftly sprang into the midst of the mob of off-shift men streaming from the bunkhouse. "I'm Blake engineer in charge from Griffith!" he shouted. "Bridge overloaded will go down when wind rises. We've got to clear her. She may go down when the empties back out. Any yellow cur that wants to quit can call for his pay-check. I'm going out. Come on, boys!"
This sprightly adventurer had just killed a carload of Mexicans, leaped from the roof of an adobe to his horse, and made off into the hills they were real hills of the desert country, sure enough as buoyantly as though he had just received his pay-check and was in great haste to spend it, never once glancing back, and putting his horse up grades at a pace that would have made an old-timer ashamed of himself had he to ride sixty miles to the next ranch before sundown as the lead on the picture stated.
These would be charged against the Slash Lazy D account at Platt & Fortner's store. Bob would settle for them with the boss when his pay-check came due. It was a warm sunny day with a touch of summer still in the air. The blue stem and the bunch grass were dry. Sage and greasewood had taken on the bare look of winter. But the pines were still green and the birds singing.
"Now, now, Tommy, don't fly off the handle. You know there are lots of 'em worse than H. V." "None I'm in so hard with. First place, there's that Q. T. survey." "That's all smoothed over. He came around all right. Just ask for your pay-check. He'll shell out." "I'll ask for interest. Ought to have a hundred per cent. I needed the money then mighty bad." "We all did. Let it slide. He's her father.
Bill's wife signs his pay-check and doles out his cigar money, a quarter at a time, and when he asks for a dollar, she looks at him as if she suspected him of leading a double life.
"Goin' to stick by Webb, are you?" demanded the chief of the opposite faction. "Anything wrong with that? I've drawn a pay-check from him for three seasons." "Oh, if it's a matter of sentiment." As a matter of fact, Billie did not intend to go on the trail any more, though Webb had offered him a place as foreman of one of his herds.
Harold Bince appeared nervous and irritable, and he would have been more nervous and more irritable had he known that Jimmy had just learned the amount of the pay-check from Everett and that he had discovered that, although five men had been laid off and no new ones employed since the previous week, the payroll check was practically the same as before approximately one thousand dollars more than his note-book indicated it should be.
He can't sthrike, because he'd have to ordher out th' polis to subjoo himsilf. He can't go to th' boss, an' say: 'Me hours is too long an' th' wurruk is tajious. Give me me pay-check. He has no boss. A man can't be indipindint onless he has a boss. 'Tis thrue.
If you have property, you have to protect it." "Cotton," said Hal, "you sell Old Peter your time but surely you might keep part of your brains! Enough to look at your monthly pay-check and realise that you too are a wage-slave, not much better than the miners you despise." The other smiled.
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