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Updated: August 16, 2024
"Hello!" he said to himself, "those mandrels here." He picked up one in his strong hands on which the metal left a gray dust, and inspected it. He might have been entirely alone in his shop at the mill.
How should Ossip have known so well that I should not re-correct the 6 into a 5, or that I should not tell the contractor that the men have bartered a plank for liquor?" Again, there befell an occasion when the men stole two pounds' weight of five vershok mandrels and bolts. "Look here," I said to Ossip warningly. "I am going to report this."
This was evidently a thought spoken aloud, for it did not occur to him to make any pretense of including the two women in his interest. He set down the casting he held, and went off into the freight-house, calling loudly, "Charlie! Charlie! Those mandrels have come. I wish you'd . . ." his voice died away as he walked further into the dusky freight-shed.
"All right," he agreed with a twitch of his grey eyebrows. "Though what such a trifle can matter I fail to see. Yes, go and report every mother's son of them." And to the men themselves he shouted: "Hi, boobies! Each of you now stands docked for some mandrels and bolts." "Why?" was the old soldier's grim inquiry. "Because you DO so stand," carelessly retorted the other.
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