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He even looked in the coal-box, and stooped and fished something out, which he held up to the light. "Hello, I don't reco'nize this!" Larcher uttered an exclamation. "He has been here! That's the note-book cover the money was in. He had it the night before he was last seen. I could swear to it." "It's all dirty with coal-dust," cautioned Mr. Bud, as Larcher seized it for closer examination.
One would barely encounter a working miner at that time who had not, on face or hands, a deep blue mark like an irregular tattoo, branded where the blast of the exploding gas had driven the coal-dust into his skin, and every man thus marked had been in imminent peril of his life at least once, and had probably found himself in the midst of a dozen or a score of his dead comrades.
When the covers were taken off the basins, I saw they were filled with ashes, coal-dust, and lamp-black. The young men mixed these all together, and smeared the whole over their heads and faces. They then wept and beat their breasts, crying, "This is the fruit of idleness, and of our wicked lives."
He was obviously a member of some profession connected with coal-dust, and it was plain that he had been celebrating the conclusion of his day's labours. The smaller navvy, thus exhorted, administered the desired clip. It was not a particularly severe one, but it drew from its recipient the somewhat unexpected expostulation "You silly ass! Not so hard!"
So she burst into tears, saying, amidst her sobs, that Mark was allowed by all who knew him to be a young man of promise; that, for herself, she didn't care how much coal-dust he had been through, that would wash off; that, at any rate, she loved him, and would never marry anybody else. Mrs. Kinloch began to consider.
While the fireman scraped the iron floor for his last two shovelfuls of coal-dust and the train wheezed wearily into the dark station, Grim began to busy himself in mysterious ways. Part of his own costume consisted of a short, curved scimitar attached to an embroidered belt the sort of thing that Arabs wear for ornament rather than use.
A great burly forger, whose red matted hair was powdered with coal-dust, and his face bloated with habitual intemperance, planted himself insolently before Henry, and said, in a very loud voice, "How many more trade meetings are we to have for one knobstick?" Henry replied, in a moment, "Is it my fault if your shilly-shallying committees can't say yes or no to L15?
I went to Boston ... hung about the library and the waterfront ... stayed in cheap lodging houses for a few days and found myself on the tramp again. I freighted it to New York, where I landed, grimy and full of coal-dust. And I sought out my uncle who lived in the Bronx. I appeared, opportunely, around supper time. I asked him if he was not glad to see me.
Then he would wait a few minutes, watching the whirled lanterns, deafened with the clang of the bells, giddy with the vision of the sliding cars, his brake-pump panting forty to the minute, his front coupler lying sideways on his cow-catcher, like a tired dog's tongue in his mouth, and the whole of him covered with half-burnt coal-dust.
Nobody remarked her abrupt movement and the other went on: "Coal, food and fresh water were running out; their medicine chest was empty. Everything was foul with soot, coal-dust and salt. I expect it was long since they were able to clean decks. The skipper was in a hammock under the bridge-awning and could not get up. An African trader, Montgomery of a Liverpool house, seemed to have control.
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