You need not go bleating around about it everywhere." Plume's eye glistened with satisfaction.
The superintendent's brow, which had clouded, grew darker.

He had already stood much from this young man.

He had followed his orders in running the mine beyond the lines shown on the plats; but he had accepted Wickersham's statement that the lines were wrong, not the workings.
"I wush you to understand one thing, Mr.Wickersham," he said.

"I came here to superintend your mines and to do my work like an honest man; but I don't propose to soil my hands with any dirrty dealings, or to engage in any violation of the law; for I am a law-abiding, God-fearing man, and before I'll do it I'll go." "Then you can go," said Wickersham, angrily.

"Go, and be d----d to you! I will show you that I know my own business." "Then I will go.