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"This committee," Duff started again, "have concerned themselves with the fact that you have done much to make business bad here in Paloma. You have prevented hundreds of workmen from coming into Paloma to spend their wages as they otherwise would have done." "Some mistake there," Reade urged. "I can't control the actions of my men after working hours."
One chainman now held an end of a hundred-link chain at the nail head on the stake, while a second man started toward the rodman, unfolding the chain as he went. Tom remained over his transit. The traveling chainman frequently glanced back for directions from Reade whether or not he was off the course of a straight line to the next stake.
"I'd like to pull in seventy-five dollars, for we need every penny of the latter amount." "We might get along with seventy," hinted Harry Hazelton. "Suppose we say seventy dollars as the lowest possible price that we can consider." "Sixty-five dollars, anyway," urged Dan Dalzell, otherwise known as "Danny Grin." "What's your own idea, Dick?" asked Tom Reade, as the distant whistle sounded.
But Reade, without a word of rebuke to their supposed helper, allowed young Drew to help himself to all he wanted in the way of hot food and coffee. Bringing midnight two hours nearer -that is to say, at ten o'clock, Tom and Harry, aided this time by Alf, built a large fire-pile in a gully at a safe distance from camp.
I want some of the real old camp chuck -plenty of it," retorted Reade, drawing a pocket comb out and running it through his damp locks while he gazed into the foot-square camp mirror hanging from a tree. "May we come in?" inquired Tom, pausing in the doorway of the engineers' mess tent. "Not if you're in doubt about it," replied Mr. Blaisdell, who was already eating with great relish.
Harry Hazelton, ordinarily the best natured of boys, was now in terrible earnest. "That's right," muttered Hazelton. "Men, I take command here. You needn't heed any words from Reade. Now, you men on the lines watch close and listen keenly for my orders." With that Hazelton darted out on the deadly, treacherous sands!
This curious partnership was maintained for some time, even when the Bell Telephone offices were removed to Reade Street, New York, whither the phonograph went also; and was perhaps explained by the fact that just then the ability of the phonograph as a money-maker was much more easily demonstrated than was that of the telephone, still in its short range magneto stage and awaiting development with the aid of the carbon transmitter.
Then this man, whom she had regarded as half starved, presented her with an enormous bunch of hothouse grapes, and the two sat down and ate them together, thus beginning a friendship which ended only with Laura Seymour's death. Oddly enough, Mrs. Seymour's suggestion that Reade should make a story of his play was a suggestion which he actually followed.
The three partners stepped aside, waiting in silence while a whispered consultation went on around Tom. At length Reade stepped back. "Men" he began, and every eye was turned in his direction. "You are waiting for orders to start on shedding over the shaft, and the lumber is ready. However, we mean to be fair with you. You all know that this claim has been going badly.
He lived entirely for his age, and so was more prominent in it than Charles Reade, for instance, whose name, no doubt, will live longer. He put himself at the mercy of Whistler, once, in some Velasquez controversy of which I forget the details, but they are all set out, for those who like mordant ridicule, in "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies."
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