Then come back to me." The gang-master obeyed.
"We'll see if we can't put a complete stop to this sort of thing," Reade muttered.
"Now, do you think it's going to be well to interfere so much with the movements of the men ?" asked President Bascomb, in an undertone.

"I am afraid that you'll only start more dissatisfaction and more treachery among them." "This having liquor in camp is going to be stopped, sir," Tom insisted.
"A keg of liquor will demoralize a whole campful of men like these.

They are an excitable lot, and they go crazy when there's any liquor around.

If we don't put a stop to it, then there'll be fights, and then a few murders are most likely to follow.

I've had plenty of experience with men such as we have here, and the stopping of liquor in camp means our only safety, and our only chance to have our work well done.