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Who brings in those foreign laborers by the shipload, Mr. Mineowner? Who rounds up cargoes of Slavs on the other side and brings them here to cut the wages and the living of the native-born? Who shrieks dolefully, Mr. Miner, when the Slav shows that he is a MAN brave and willing to prove worthy of freedom by joining the army of union labor?
Leatham heard the story with an interest which could hardly fail to gratify its narrator. When it was finished he expressed his feelings by giving vent to a long and complicated oath. Then he asked how they thought he could help. Merriman explained. The mineowner rather gasped at first, then he laughed and slapped his thigh. "By the Lord Harry!" he cried, "I'll do it!
"Well," he said, drawing at his cigar, "I suppose we needn't say one thing and think another. I take it our precious plan has failed?" "That's about the size of it," Hilliard admitted grimly. "Your man saw nothing?" Merriman inquired. "He saw you," the mineowner returned.
"Come on, Hilliard, and hear what he has to say." It was the mineowner speaking from his office. "I've just rung up our friends," he told them, "and that business is all right. There was some delay about it at first, for Benson that's the manager was afraid he hadn't enough stock of props for current orders.
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