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I've been keeping tab on the MacMorroghs for a good while: they are grafters; the kind of men who take it out of the company and out of their labor in a thousand petty little steals three profits on the commissary, piece-work for subs where they know a man's got to lose out, steals on the working hours, fines and drawbacks and discounts on the pay-rolls, and all that. You know how it's done."
Of course, generations before they ever came to America, the McAfees, McClungs, Campbells, McCoshes, etc., had become indistinguishable from the Todds, Armstrongs, Elliotts, and the like. A notable instance being that of the Lewis family, of Great Kanawha fame. The Blount MSS. contain many muster-rolls and pay-rolls of the frontier forces of North Carolina during the year 1788.
During this period the sardonic laugh was heard in the land, and the chuckling appreciation of the joke by the Red Butte rank and file, and by the Angelic soldiers of fortune who, though not upon the company's pay-rolls, still throve indirectly upon the company's bounty, lacked nothing of completeness.
The crossing was being effected as rapidly as possible, yet for so vast an army it is always slow and tedious. Our troops are daily crossing and advancing, but all is otherwise quiet. We are now receiving an issue of clothing, which we greatly need. Our ranks are putting on a new-revived appearance. The first sergeants of the Harris Light have received orders to finish their pay-rolls.
"I don't handle the pay-roll," replied Everett a trifle peevishly. "Shortly after Mr. Bince was made assistant general manager a new rule was promulgated, to the effect that all salaries and wages were to be considered as confidential and that no one but the assistant general manager would handle the pay-rolls. All I know is the amount of the weekly check.
From below came the echoes of shouts and other sounds which conveyed the intelligence that a large body of men was on the move up to the mine and the mountain slope above. "They're after me," said Rathburn bitterly. "They think I stole the pay-rolls. They can't get me, Sautee not alive. An' if they get me the other way I'm goin' to see to it somehow that I don't get blamed for these jobs up here.
There has never been a just complaint from one of my employees that wasn't attended to in short order, if it was in my power to do so. There's many an old fossil on my pay-rolls to-day who isn't worth his salt, but he stays there, and will continue to stay there, because he did his best when he could, and it's not his fault that he's dead wood now.
Whereupon they struck at a time that was critical. However, we were short of money for pay-rolls; and we concluded it might not be so bad after all, as it would give us a couple of weeks to catch up. So when the men went out they appointed a committee to meet us; but for two weeks they could not find us, so they became somewhat more anxious than we were.
He seems to have learned from this Indian lawsuit, whether or not he was concerned other than as counsel in that lawsuit and the record does not show whether or not he was that Delphine, or his claimant, whoever that was we'll say Delphine, for we don't know Delphine's real name, perhaps could and did stick on the pay-rolls of an Indian tribe. That meant that she was Loise, and not Loisson.
The chief frowned gloomily, and the president's niece felt intuitively that her presence was a bar to free speech. "It's straight enough about the rotten commissary and the graft on the pay-rolls," said Ford wrathfully. "Is the trouble likely to spread to the camps farther down?"
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