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Richomme was about to say no, but he changed his mind and replied like the others, as he went away:"Wait for Monsieur Dansaert, the head captain."
This head captain would send him off like the others.
The head captain smiled at first; for the scheme of excluding women from the pit was not usually well received by the miners, who were troubled about placing their daughters, and not much affected by questions of morality and health.
The captain, Richomme, who was going down himself, with his naked lamp fixed by a nail into the leather of his cap, heard him.
Only the captain's naked light, in the neighbouring tram, shone like a lighthouse.
Doubtless a captain was passing beneath.
The head captain's love for Pierronne was a constant joke in the pit.
Almost immediately the engineer of the mine, little Négrel, as the workmen called him among themselves, appeared at the top of the cutting, accompanied by Dansaert, the head captain.
The head captain, a coarse-faced Belgian, with a large sensual nose, replied with exaggerated politeness:"Yes, Monsieur Négrel.
The force of the system alone restrained them, that military system which, from the trammer to the head captain, ground one beneath the other.
"And you! why, in the devil's name, don't you watch them?""But I do--I do," stammered the head captain.
"Impossible: ask the captain.
"Quick, quick!" repeated the captain, Richomme, to the porters.
He got into one tram, and the head captain into another, the signal was sounded five times, ringing for the butcher s meat, as they said for the masters; and the cage flew up in the air in the midst of a gloomy silence.
A married woman!""Gracious!" said Maheude; "Pierron, before marrying her, used to give the captain rabbits; now it costs him less to lend his wife."
No doubt they never told them stories about the head captain.
And every time the same meetings took place: a captain lighting up the faces of the passing workmen, Father Mouque leading a horse, Bébert conducting the snorting Bataille, Jeanlin running behind the train to close the ventilation doors, and big Mouquette and lean Lydie pushing their trams.
The matter had already been arranged with the head captain and the engineer, who were very pleased with the young man.
So on the following Sunday they went to the auction, which took place in the shed and was presided over by the engineer of the pit, assisted by the head captain, in the absence of the divisional engineer.
In order to get his fifty metres, Maheu struggled with a comrade who was also obstinate; in turn they each took off a centime from the tram; and if he conquered in the end it was only by lowering the wage to such an extent, that the captain Richomme, who was standing behind him, muttered between his teeth, and nudged him with his elbow, growling angrily that he could never do it at that price.
This quarrel had strengthened the relations with Pierronne, only Pierronne had left Pierron and Lydie with her mother, and set out early in the morning to spend the day with a cousin at Marchiennes; and they joked, for they knew this cousin; she had a moustache, and was head captain at the Voreux.
Pierronne was the only one who seemed fairly calm, for that sneak of a Pierron always arranged things, no one knew how, so as to have more hours on the captain's ticket than his mates.
He was trotting with naked feet behind his train, closing the ventilation doors one by one; when he was not afraid of meeting a captain he jumped on to the last tram, which he was not allowed to do for fear he should go to sleep.
The captain, Richomme, had come up running, in despair that neither Négrel, the engineer, nor Dansaert was at the pit.
"Wrap him up in a covering, and put him in a tram," ordered the captain.
The first listened to the captain's narrative with an exasperated air.
one of our good workers," replied the chief captain.
The manager excused himself, and had the head captain brought in.
Jeanlin remained the captain of these expeditions, leading the troop on to all sorts of prey, ravaging the onion fields, pillaging the orchards, attacking shop windows.
Bébert also had to bring him the booty, happy if the captain did not hit him and keep it all.
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