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This fellow shook hands warmly with O'Neil, whereupon others followed, one by one miners, day laborers, "rough-necks" of many nationalities. They doffed their hats- something they never did for Gordon and stretched out grimy hands, their faces lighting up with smiles. O'Neil accepted their greetings with genuine pleasure and called them by name.
More rough-necks gave up their lives fighting the gushing floods and falling walls, until at last the tunnel emerged into the open foothills of the valley. During all this time, the men for whom Jim had spent his first savings stayed solidly by him, save those whom death called out.
I reckon he was pumped pretty hard." "That doesn't excuse him for " "There, Mack, don't get mad. I was asking you for your own good. There's something mighty mysterious about that affair, and I thought if you'd tell me just what took place that we'd be able to do something before that gang of rough-necks down to the Inn get the bits in their teeth."
The cutaway coat has lost one of its tails; his hair is rumpled up like feathers, and his collar has parted its front moorin's. As soon as he gets his wind though, he tries to state what's on his mind. "You you young rough-necks!" says he. "I I'll make you sweat for this. You'll see!" "Harken, fellow Gogs!" says Beans.
"Sure, 'tis a family reunion we do be havin', wid no empthy chairs at all," declared the Irishman, looking from face to face with twinkling eyes. "Well, well, who'd a thought now that the little kid we found under the bank here, shcared av the coyotes an' more shcared av us rough-necks, wud av growed up like this?
Not real handsome, but say! he's one of the finest fellows that ever lived. We call him Montana. There were a lot of rough-necks in our outfit, and right away I got in bad. You know I never was much on holding my temper. Anyway, I got licked powerful fine, as dad would say, and I'd been all beaten up but for Montana. That made us two fast friends, and sure some enemies, you bet.
And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world.
They all laugh at us farmers, those rough-necks. Say, we don't know a real man when we see one." The bronzed elderly man who was with Oscar listened intently. Oscar went on: "The details on a place like this are enough to drive a man crazy. He dassent let 'em pour concrete without him or his cement expert is round.
But the miracle had happened; a miracle so wide in its amplitude that the Wheelers, all the Wheelers and the roughnecks and the low-brows were caught up in it. Yes, it was the rough-necks' own miracle, all this; it was their golden chance.
Do you chance to know an enlisted man out yonder who would do whom you would trust to take care of a young girl alone?" The Captain bent his head on one hand, silent for some minutes. "They are a tough lot, Major; that's a fact, when you stop to call the roll. Those recruits we got at Leavenworth were mostly rough-necks seven of them in the guard-house to-night.
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