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A low, rumbling, menacing growl, at first coming, it seemed, from the very boots of the lumberjacks, startled the Overland Riders. The growl suddenly burst into an angry roar. Acting upon a common impulse, every jack in the room sprang to his feet and made a savage rush for the red-headed Spike. "Sit down, you rough-necks!" bellowed Hippy Wingate. "This is Christmas.
I don't mind that much. Never could stand for these rough-necks that claim they'd rather have a good, healthy walloping country wench than a nice, refined city lady. Why, I like refinement! Yes, sir, I sure do!... Well, it sure was some trip. Guess we won't forget it in a hurry, eh? Sure is nice to rub up against some Southern swells like we did that night at the Avocado Club.
There was another silence, in which Hicks continued to thumb the knife in a manner that kept Wallie at a tension, then he said with a suavity which somehow was more menacing than an outburst: "Perhaps it would be better for us rough-necks to eat at the second table. It hadn't occurred to me that our society might not be agreeable to ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad you mentioned it."
The old simple life of the Makon when, heading his faithful rough-necks, Jim ate up the work, with no thought save for the work, was gone. Jim's job on the Cabillo was not that of engineer alone. He had not only to build the dam but to rule an organization of two thousand souls.
"What's your plan?" Slater inquired, eagerly; but Appleton shook his head. "No you don't, Tommy!" he said. "I'm wise to you." Murray hesitated briefly, then gave his permission. "I'd rather you'd let one of the rough-necks take the chance, but if you insist " "I do." "Then get your sister's consent " Slater swore mournfully, as if from a heart filled with black despair. "Ain't that my luck?
Some of the sore-heads are coming in this evening to demand their wages." "Can we pay them?" "Doc says he dassent; so I s'pose they'll quit. He should have fired 'em a week ago. Never let a man quit always beat him to it. We could hold the rough-necks for another two weeks if it wasn't for these fellows, but they'll go back and start a stampede." "How many are there?" "About a dozen."
"These sagebrush rough-necks out here will make Corrigan hump himself to keep out of their way. But he deserves it, the crook!"
"There's not a thing wrong in the plant so far as I know, George." "I don't know of anything either," returned the other, "but we may not know all the way. There's one thing sure, the old man ought not to be wandering through the works alone. There's some of those rough-necks would well it's too darned easy, sometimes, for accidents to happen, do you see?
"I'd give anything to know for sure that he's alive and safe!" was Billy's rueful rejoinder. "I've heard all sorts of stories about what rough-necks like those smugglers do to any one that butts in on their game!" "You don't believe they'd kill him?" "No-o, hardly that. But they might " "The worst of it is," interrupted Alec, "we don't even know that he's alive. He might have been drowned or "
The rough-necks felt Jim's anxiety and it proved contagious. It may have been due to many things, to Jim's youth and his simple sincerity, to his example of indefatigable energy and his willingness to work with his hands; it may have been that the men felt always the note of domination in his character and that that forced some of the cohesion.
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