Jarvis nodded more emphatically than ever.
CHAPTER III
STEVE SHOWS THE IRON HAND
"TELL the mine captain that I wish to see him," said Steve Rush to one of the men working in his shift.
"Where is he?"
"That is what I am sending you to find out," answered the young foreman, somewhat sharply.
The messenger hurried away, grumbling to himself. While the Iron Boys were popular in the mines, there had been no little grumbling when it was learned that they had been promoted over men who had spent many years in the mines. Steve knew and understood this, but he knew that he had done no one an injustice. He had worked hard, and if his employers considered that he was entitled to promotion that was his own good fortune.
"One seldom gets anything in this world unless he works for it and earns it," was the lad's wise conclusion on this particular morning, as his keen eyes caught a disgruntled look on the face of more than one man working under him.