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"They might have heard the noise," said Mary. "But they'd not know what it was; and the bosses won't tell them till they've got out the mules." For all that he had seen in North Valley, Hal could hardly credit that story. "How do you know it, Mary?" "Young Rovetta just told me. He was there, and heard it with his own ears." He was staring at her.
There went blue-eyed Tim Rafferty to look for his father, and black-eyed "Andy," the Greek boy, whose father had perished in a similar disaster years ago; there went Rovetta, and Carmino, the pit-boss, Jerry's cousin. One by one their names ran through the crowd, as of heroes marching out to battle. Looking about, Hal saw some of the guests of the Harrigan party.
They passed the word to Mary Burke, to Rovetta, Klowoski, and others; and at eleven o'clock the next morning they met again, and the lists were put together, and it was found that no less than a hundred and seven men and boys were positively known to be inside Number One.
Also there was a young Italian, Rovetta, whom Jerry knew and whose loyalty he could vouch for. There was another person Hal thought of Mary Burke. He had been deliberately avoiding her of late; it seemed the one safe thing to do although it seemed also a cruel thing, and left his mind ill at ease. He went over and over what had happened. How had the trouble got started?
"Big Jack's" part in the recent disturbance had apparently not been suspected; he and his wife, with Rovetta, Wresmak, and Klowoski, would remain as a nucleus through which the union could work upon the men. The supper-hour was at hand, and the pseudo-Mrs. Zamboni emerged and toddled down the street. As she passed into the dining-room of the boarding-house, men looked at her, but no one spoke.
David was risking it deliberately, because of her indignation that her husband had had to foreswear his union in order to get work in America. The young Italian, Rovetta, came, then old John Edstrom. There being not chairs enough in the house, Mrs.
Also they voted down the proposition of a syndicalist-anarchist, who explained to them in a jumble of English and Italian that the mines belonged to them, and that they should refuse all compromise and turn the bosses out forthwith. While this speech was being delivered, young Rovetta pushed his way through the crowd and drew Hal to one side.
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