Part 14 (1/2)
He paused suddenly and his face gloith enthusias-bench
”Look at the way those poor blind fellows are taking to their job, Mac,”
he whispered ”They can't tell black fro as , Dorgan?”
He addressed a cutter working at the nearest bench The blindeasier all the ties at this job”
They passed froinstructed in soldering the cans
Again Gregory's eyes expressed his satisfaction
”That's fine, Carlson,” he co on fine”
Themuch to it,” he answered cheerfully ”Got kind of tired standing at first But I don't notice it ory strove to express his appreciation of McCoy's work as they caer refused to take the credit
”It was your idea,” he said, ”you paid me to carry it out At first I didn't thinkto work The men are tickled to death I never had a crew that tried so hard to learn or picked it up so quickly I can handle an average run with the broken hours for a week”
Gregory turned quickly to McCoy and said earnestly: ”It's a big idea, Mac It ork It's got to work It's getting bigger all the tiirl hang ht as he drew a blue-print from his pocket and spread it out on an e a bunk-house out of this building The boys can't get a decent place to stay in the town The contractor will be here in half an hour After I've closed with hiirl”
dickie Lang paced the docks in nervous expectancy while she checked in her returning fleet and conferred with one of her fishi+ng captains
”I'll tell you, Toet theory with fish and I can't fall down like this Look here”
Shoving a tally-sheet before his eyes, she pointed to the totals ”Not enough there to last hiot to getto do?”
”Go after the out to sea for theood haul yesterday fro boats over there with the _Petrel_ scouting ahead”
The fisherman shook his head dubiously
”You're takin' a tall chance,” he said slowly ”Things happen out Diablo way Your dad never could make it stick out there He lost a heap around that devil-island That's why he give up fishi+n' out there”
”He didn't give it up,” the girl flashed, ”any oats, and you know it There's always fish around the island and I'll bet you two to one when the fleet coust, dickie walked to the end of the dock and sought to pierce the shi+fting curtain ofabout the inlet It caory's proposal, she hadpromise Moreover she had entered into a contract which she was finding ined Perhaps she was a fool not to have taken up the cannery-owner's proposition At least it orth considering By accepting his terms all the worry would have been shi+fted to him and she would have been able to play safe In a year she would have been out of debt With her boats paid for, she could afford to be independent Now, she was going further behind each day
Worse than that, she was falling down on her contract
Finishi+ng his business with the contractor a half-hour before closing ti wharf