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Did the company pay me for my knowledge, judgment, experience and skill in handling a locomotive, or for obeying orders from "Her Eyes." Any fool could obey orders. Then I declared for liberty, but I kept away from "Her Eyes." I declared for liberty in the roundhouse.
There was no male corpse to be seen, which, coupled with the absence of the boats, evinced but too clearly that the crew had left the females, with their helpless infants, on the wreck to perish. There was a small roundhouse on the after part of the deck, in which we found three other women alive, but wasted to skeletons.
I could not make up my mind to retire to my cabin, and, seeking the shelter of the roundhouse, I remained on deck, observing the weather phenomena, and the skill, certainty, celerity, and effect with which the crew carried out the orders of the captain and West. It was a strange and terrible experience for a landsman, even one who had seen so much of the sea and seamanship as I had.
"Go out and hang your crepe on the roundhouse," Dan told him; "this is a jubilee. If you keep on rejoicing you'll have us all in tears." When the others had gone he turned to Eliza. "Why don't you want O'Neil to know about that money, Sis?" he asked, curiously. "When I'm a hero I like to be billed as one." "Please!" She hesitated and turned her face away. "You you are so stupid about some things."
"I wired the superintendent to go to hell. It came to the same thing." "I worked for a railroad once myself," said Sloan. "Was a hostler in the roundhouse at Syracuse, New York. I never worked up any higher than that. I had ambitions to be promoted to the presidency, but it didn't seem very likely, so I gave it up and came West." "You made a good thing of it.
A vague sense of joy touched Martin's aching heart only to depart. "By the way, I noticed when I went through Northport that you've still got that rotary where everybody can see it. I wish you'd move that stuff behind the roundhouse, out of sight." Then Martin, heavier at heart than ever, went back to Northport.
The crew had been used to receiving orders from Rondeau, and moreover they were not aware of his recent action; hence at his command they ran the switch-engine out of the roundhouse, coupled up the two flat-cars and the wrecking-car, and backed down to the crossing. Upon arrival, Jules Rondeau leaned out of the cab window and hailed Bryce. "M'sieur," he said, "do not bozzer to make zee derrick.
During the strike, the master mechanic put a gang of Mexicans to work in the roundhouse. The Mexicans had arrived so quietly, with their blankets and musical instruments, that before Moonstone was awake to the fact, there was a Mexican quarter; a dozen families or more.
And since Maggie's displeasure manifested itself in cold coffee and tough cuts of the beef, the long table made its most excruciating jests elaborately impersonal. On the line, and in the roundhouse and repair-shops, the joke was far too good to be muzzled.
I am quite content to be outside the Roundhouse so called because it is square, perhaps though the wind is gone back to the east again, as it always does now in an English summer, according to a man who has studied the subject Zebedee Tugwell, the captain of the fleet.
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