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Among those who came out was Jack David, and Hal walked home with him and his wife, listening to the latter abuse Jeff Cotton and Alec Stone, which was an education in the vocabulary of class-consciousness. The little Welsh woman repeated the pit-boss's saying, "Damn the men, save the mules!"
Stone," began Hal, "I don't want to bother you, but I'd like first rate to get more pay. If you could see your way to let me have that buddy's job, I'd be more than glad to divide with you." "Divide with me?" said Stone. "How d'ye mean?" Hal waited with some apprehension for if Mike had not assured him so positively, he would have expected a swing from the pit-boss's mighty arm.
"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.
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