Manitou was the best town in the West; it's no good now.

Who's the cause?
Ingolby's the cause.

Name of God, if he was here I'd get him by the throat as quick as winkin'." He opened and shut his fingers with spasmodic malice, and glared round the room.

"He's going to lock us out if we strike," he added.

"He's going to take the bread out of our mouths; he's going to put his heel on Manitou, and grind her down till he makes her knuckle to Lebanon--to a lot of infidels, Protes'ants, and thieves.