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-man and the same man in a crowd. Without knowing how he did it, he could, nevertheless, distinguish between the si

en, had made the natural mistake of driving the very large force employed on the elevator with much too loose a rein. The men were still further demoralized by the episode with the

orning, Miss Vogel handed him two letters addressed to him pers

ber wheat. They have a tremendous short line on the Chicago Board, and they mean to deliver it. Twenty two hundred thousand has got to be in t

how you got that cribbing to the lake. I told him you put the ba

re than eighteen hundred thousand feet, would probably be in Chicago within a week. A note was scribbled on the margin in Sloan's handwriting. "Those fo

r two weeks from next Tuesday-he can't see the difference. I suppose if one of those posters on an inc

some day. Once I get this job done, I'd like to see the man who can hurry me. I'll say to MacBride: 'I'm willing to work on nice, quiet, easy little jobs that never have to be finished. I'll want to sit a

an bin room is necessary. Beneath the bins is what is called the working story, where is the machinery for unloading cars and for lifting the grain. The cu

ola. Below them in the bins, like bees in a honeycomb, laborers were taking down the scaffolding which had served in building their walls. At the south side o

of a plank and dropped it down into the bin. There was a low laugh, and

e called, getting the attention of all the carpenters, "every man that drops anything into the bins gets docked an hou

ng back he saw them all looking at a fellow named Reilly, who, trying to suppress a smile, was peering with mock concern down into the

self, for the man had pl

s since he took command

own for the sort ambitio

f his union th

k you," he said. "Go to the office and ge

heeding, went over to the hoist. Presently a rough hand fell o

that. Go and

e. My hammer just slipped. How're y

off, you understand; you're fired. If you ever

an said, coming nearer. "You'll

Bannon, still quietly. "The faster

. You can't come it o

to fairly rebound from the floor. He rushed at the boss, but before he could come within

y, his eye blazing along the barrel

ring. Bannon shoved back the revolver into his hip pocket. "I

it up a stick at a time," he said. "I'll tell 'em to load fo

a spill or a break tha

"That's the kind of chances we'll h

em in the office. He wiped his feet on the mat, glancing at Hilda as he did so, but she was hard at work and did not look up. He to

t something?

me. I

in. "I've got a couple of letters I want to talk over

I was most afraid to come," he said. "I heard you drawed a gu

ing m

rouble right along. How'd it happen you ha

ne on a job since I've

ver want to. I don't like 'em. If my fists ain't good enough to take care of me

it but showed grace and strength and a magnificent confidence. Then, as if for the contrast, s

egin that way. I've been in places where things got pretty miscellaneous sometimes, but I never had a man come up and say: 'Mr. Banno

al for a while, and one time when I wasn't looking for it, twenty four of those lunatics all jumped on me

op there,

or till I got to a chair, and I just knocke

ch; then he took Brown's

he said. "We've got to h

ear's

te. "I don't see it th

rest MacBride a bit. He says i

e. I didn't know it was a rush job. And then we played in hard luck, too, before y

we're told. When I have to begin explaining to MacBride why it can't be done, I'll send my resignation along in

tire house with galvanized iron; we've got to finish the spouting house and sheathe that; we've got to build the belt gallery-and we'll have no end of a time d

forget that," said Pete. "

t of a roof. There's no machinery, no details, just straight work. It's just a question of having the lumber to do it with, and we've got it now. It's the little work that can raise Ned wit

ossible the amount of labor involved in each separate piece of construction, and the number of men who could work on it at once.

aid Pete, "but you see that takes us

ch first,"

We'll get three eight-hour days into every twenty-

o," said Pete, after a moment. "That

that you always get hit by something you ain't looking for? I'm figuring in our hard-luck margin, tha

, easily. "You're still thin

ompany are likely to spring some

ort of

ahead and build it

o work three gangs?

boys to help Max keep time. It may take us a day or two to get the good men divided up and t

do. I wish you'd go through the pay roll and pick out the best men a

out of the o

put me in the ni

ecided yet w

up four and five sticks at once. I stopped 'em, and they said i

more than I told 'em t

t to keep up with

a big risk, that's a

u suppose I like it? We've got something

not to pick up more than two sticks

ete, "I think you'd better go as fast as you can and

carried more of a load than Bannon had authorized, but some of the talk among the men indicated the contrary. Only one man was injured and he not fata

n two hours after the accident. "She's guyed a little better than the other was,

out the

before. You weren't an