Marshall managed the milling process and passed the lumber to the factory.

From the lumber, Barthol made beautiful and useful furniture, which Uptegrove scattered all over the world from a big wholesale house.
Of the thousands who saw their faces reflected on the polished surfaces of that furniture and found comfort in its use, few there were to whom it suggested mighty forests and trackless swamps, and the man, big of soul and body, who cut his way through them, and with the eye of experience doomed the proud trees that were now entering the homes of civilization for service.
When McLean turned from his finished report, he faced a young man, yet under twenty, tall, spare, heavily framed, closely freckled, and red-haired, with a homely Irish face, but in the steady gray eyes, straightly meeting his searching ones of blue, there was unswerving candor and the appearance of longing not to be ignored.

He was dressed in the roughest of farm clothing, and seemed tired to the point of falling.
"You are looking for work ?" questioned McLean.
"Yis," answered Freckles.
"I am very sorry," said the Boss with genuine sympathy in his every tone, "but there is only one man I want at present--a hardy, big fellow with a stout heart and a strong body.

I hoped that you would do, but I am afraid you are too young and scarcely strong enough." Freckles stood, hat in hand, watching McLean.
"And what was it you thought I might be doing ?" he asked.
The Boss could scarcely repress a start.

Somewhere before accident and poverty there had been an ancestor who used cultivated English, even with an accent.