He thought that would fetch his father stamping out, but he had reckoned falsely.

There was no further sound.

Leaving the room in high dudgeon, Kurt hurried out to catch the hired men near at hand and to order them back to work.

They trudged off surlily toward the barn.
Then Kurt went on to search for the I.W.W.men, and after looking up and down the road, and all around, he at length found them behind an old strawstack.

They were comfortably sitting down, backs to the straw, eating a substantial lunch.