Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-09-11
CHAPTER v.


1t had been an unusually stubborn
N'hard-tap," requiring quick and heavy
Sledging to break out the hardened
are-clay and Stag In the tap-hole. The
slag that had f1oated on the metal was
now dripping into the cinder pit, send
ing up shower of golden sparks.
Roman Andzrejzski, meter in charge
ef the furnace, was watching the
scorched. haggard face of his second
Helper That young man, leaning
with an air Of exhaustion and discour-
2gement on his inverted sledge. was
coughing violently. He had been just
three months in the heat and toll the
Dpen-hearth turnacemen must endure
aAd an unnerving fear was upon him:
shat his steadily waning strength
would not hold out.
Vat ISIS it? Zick?" Roman spoke
in the slow, careful fashion that was
his habit when he used English.
Mark shook his head '+Tuckered
out"
''Tuckeredt out?~ Roman looked
at him gravely. You drink too much ?"
Il don't drink at all"
That iss goot. Mineself," Roman
explained na&vely, II drink too much
Unit that ISIS not goot- But always
p II been very strong. 1t iss the douple
turn" he added TT iss very hardt
on the young. Later 1t gets not so
hardt-Eometimes. Ware do you lif?'
With a Frenchman In Rose alley.
Rose alley-it stinks! It's too near
the mills. l can't sleep for the noise.
I'm tired and my head aches all the
time"
For two, three days then you must
not work but zleep."
Marks red eyes darted angry eus-
pieion at his chief II suppose you
want my job for somebody else" he
,sneered.
NO. You are a goot worker. Unit
u like you"
IAN the same" Mark answered dog
gedly, Il quit when have to-not be-
fore"
You do not belief me-" Roman
shrugged his big shoulders. Vat do
you eat?"
"Oh, soup and brown bread and po-
zatoes mostly. That's the trouble,
guess
"Hundert t'ousandt defils! 20 little
unit you work here! You are Ameri-
can, you mast eat Wy you not LII
another placer"
The Frendhies sort o. think they're
friends. They wouldn't understand"
10? But here" Roman shrugged
mis- shoulderS again, 1T ISIS q man must
be for himseak-ye work now" They
returned to their task
Even double turns have an end. The
night shift came on at last. At the
trough for cooling tools Mark washed
away the grimy sweat that streamed
down his face. Then he donned a dry
shirt and heavy overcoat. Despite
this covering his overheated body
shivered when the raw, early April
wind struck him
Waltz" And Roman was beside
him. II hat decissdt. You come LII
by my house"
~ guess not" Mark answered wear
1ly, 81 guess you don't want me-"
Il haf decitedt," Roman repeated.
You haf been goot friendts to your
friendts-you viii be to us also. hat
a big house. 1t iss still there; you
shall zleep unit not hear the mills. Unit
my Matka- she ISIS goot cook. Unit
meppy you make friends Wit my Piotr.
Hs bass no American friendts."
You might get tired of me-"
10? Then viii / tell you," said
Rssman simply. ''Alxo, you viii tell
ua, ven you get hpedt OF US. Unit you
VA rot be chargadt too much. You
VII GOMEZ"
Mark hesitated, then laughed grim
ly. "Will / comet"
"Goot!" Roman laid a kindly hand
on Marks shoulder. Now will you
belief me unit nor work till the coldt ISIS
veil. You will tome tomorrow"
And. the mattsr arranged, they part
ed for the nigA&
Romans house, big only by COM
parison with three-room tenements,
was on a quiet street on one of the
city's seven hills. Mark was tucked
away in thhd-story room Not even
his fancy, less lively than in months
agone but ssill fertile, could conceive
the cheap he'd and rocker, rag carpet
and unpainzed table as the trappangs
of luxury. But 1t was clean and CON-
Portable. through its windows swept
tho clean air for which his country
bred lungs we're starving and the mills
were heard only as q snbdued. not I'M
musical rumble. Also. immeasurabls
boon. there was in that house a bath
tub: his attendance upon il astonished
even Kazia. who esteemed bathing
more highly than did the rest of Ro-
mans household. The Aatka's cook
ing, supplemented by Kazia's arts. fell
little short of Romans prospectus and
ths tara had substance.