It had been suggested that they should shoot them both;
but they were harmless folk who were not connected with the
mines, so they were sternly bidden to drive on and keep silent,
lest a worse thing befall them. And so the blood-mottled figure
had been left as a warning to all such hard-hearted employers,
and the three noble avengers had hurried off into the mountains
where unbroken nature comes down to the very edge of the furnaces
and the slag heaps. Here they were, safe and sound, their work
well done, and the plaudits of their companions in their ears.
It had been a great day for the Scowrers. The shadow had fallen
even darker over the valley. But as the wise general chooses the
moment of victory in which to redouble his efforts, so that his
foes may have no time to steady themselves after disaster, so
Boss McGinty, looking out upon the scene of his operations with
his brooding and malicious eyes, had devised a new attack upon
those who opposed him. That very night, as the half-drunken
company broke up, he touched McMurdo on the arm and led him aside
into that inner room where they had their first interview.
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