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When they went away, although the night was very dark, they did not even kiss each other; they walked side by side, tender and despairing, certain that if they touched one another the captain would strike them from behind.
"It's been going on an hour," said the captain.
"At least," said a captain, "let every one be free.
It seemed as though he had long had his eyes on him for rapid advancement; and he ended by squarely offering to make him captain later on.
All at once a captain passed, shouting:"They are cutting the cables!
But the voice of another captain was heard and then lost:"The Montsou men are cutting the cables!
The captain's voice echoed anew, now approaching them:"Let every one go up!
The men had gone down; the cage was working, and he became reassured again, and was talking to the head captain when the approach of the strikers was announced to him.
But their numbers went on increasing; nearly five hundred were pushing towards the door, and he might have been torn to pieces if his head captain had not pulled him violently back.
They reached the pit, and found a captain standing on a footbridge at the screening-shed to receive them.
Quickly coming down from the footbridge, the captain now barred the door.
A former captain at the Victoire kept a stall near by.
The manager then heard, for the first time, of the meeting in the forest the evening before; the details were very precise, and he listened while thinking of the intrigue with Pierronne, so well known that two or three anonymous letters every week denounced the licentiousness of the head captain.
He even took advantage of the occasion; he let the head captain know that he was aware of everything, contenting himself with recommending prudence for fear of a scandal.
This solitude rendered his preoccupations more gloomy; he was feeling cold at the heart when a captain, who had arrived running, was shown in, and told him of the mob's march on Mirou.
All brought him news of increasing gravity concerning the march of the strikers among the pits: and the chief captain told him at length what had gone on at Mirou and the fine behaviour of Father Quandieu.
Some of his comrades said that the captain was a republican; as to him, he had no idea--it was all the same to him.
The head captain rushed away and disappeared trembling with fear that this story would reach the manager's ears.
The disappearance of the sentinel had overcome the guards with surprise; they had gone to arouse the captain, and after a careful examination of the place, they concluded that it must be a case of desertion.
Lydie did not dare to speak aloud the sufferings of a small beaten woman, any more than Bébert found courage to complain of the captain's blows which made his cheeks swell; but the captain was really abusing his power, risking their bones in mad marauding expeditions while refusing to share the booty.
Mouque had indeed warned the head captain a week ago.
He went up to the captain, a tall thin young man of scarcely twenty-eight years, with a despairing, resolute face.
When he came to use the world "republic" the captain made a nervous movement; but he preserved his military stiffness, and said suddenly:"Keep off!
They both showed themselves for a moment at a window of the receiving-room; the head captain stood in the background, rather out of countenance since his adventure with Pierronne, while the engineer bravely looked round on the crowd with his bright little eyes, smiling with that sneering contempt in which he enveloped men and things generally.
"Keep off!" repeated the captain loudly.
Behind them the captain had drawn his sword, and as the crowd pressed in on them more and more, threatening to crush them against the wall, he ordered them to present bayonets.
Their little troop--a mere handful of men--opposed to the rising flood of miners, still held its own, however, and calmly executed the brief orders given by the captain.
He feared, no doubt, that he would be accused of sending a captain in place of venturing out himself; and he tried to speak.
Meanwhile, every minute, the captain looked down the Montsou road.
To calm the excitement of his men, the captain decided to make prisoners.
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