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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 engineer raised his lamp and looked at him without asking any questions.
" The engineer shrugged his shoulders without replying.
"Didn't I tell you that they care nothing?" cried the engineer.
But the discontent increased; Chaval and Levaque narrated the engineer's threat, the tram to be lowered in price, and the planking paid separately.
The habit of discipline made the men stand in rows while the engineer passed through the group without a word.
But being an enterprising engineer, tormented by the desire for a royal fortune, he had hastened to sell out when the denier had reached a million.
First, the engineer."
While drinking his coffee, without yet putting on a shirt, Maheu told his wife about the engineer's anger over the planking.
The bosses were always bothering him about the damned planking question; he feared every hour the appearance of the engineer Négrel, followed by Dansaert, shouting, discussing, ordering everything to be done over again, and he remarked that his putter's timbering gave greater satisfaction to these gentlemen, in spite of their air of never being pleased with anything, and their repeated assertions that the Company would one day or another take radical measures.
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.
Négrel, the engineer, did not hurry in the face of this panic, and allowed the offers to fall to the lowest possible figures, while Dansaert, anxious to push matters still further, lied with regard to the quality of the workings.
The captain, Richomme, had come up running, in despair that neither Négrel, the engineer, nor Dansaert was at the pit.
At this moment the engineer, Négrel, and Dansaert, who had been informed, came up with Richomme.
Six o'clock struck, twilight was already coming on, and they would do well to remove the corpse also; the engineer gave orders to harness the van and to bring a stretcher.
Three years later he became divisional engineer in the Pas-de-Calais, at the Marles mines.
He had come out low in rank, and his uncle, M. Hennebeau, had enabled him to leave by offering to take him as engineer at the Voreux.
I've just heard of it through my engineer.
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.
He had even accepted, as a lucky chance, at the last moment, their offer to keep him as divisional engineer, thus resigning himself to watch, as a simple salaried servant, over that pit which had swallowed up his fortune.
Before allowing the pikemen to return to their hewing cells, the engineer had decided that for the first five days all the men should execute certain works of consolidation which were extremely urgent.
And he went away declaring that he would come back with the engineer.
replying that they must wait for the engineer.
And he described the catastrophe in a few stammered words, while the engineer incredulously shrugged his shoulders.
And the engineer could only make out one thing with certainty: there were men down below, for their yells could be distinguished through the sound of the water and the fallen scaffolding, on leaning over the mouth of the shaft.
The engineer, in fact, with quiet courage was preparing to go down.
But the engineer was choked, and could not speak; he felt faint.
And as the manager and the engineer came down last from the receiving-room, the crowd met them with its clamour, repeating obstinately:"The names! the names!
Deneulin, who had been appointed divisional engineer, came into the midst of the disaster on beginning his duties; and his first care was to turn the canal back into its bed, for this torrent increased the damage every hour.
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