THOUGHTS BECAME CONCENTRATED ON THE OFFICERS AND LEADERS OF THE MINERS' UNION.
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By reflex action, a picture of how he himself and six associates secretly ran the infamous business of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, which picture had lain for years in his brain like an undeveloped film, suddenly took shape, and was thrown considerably magnified on the canvas of his fertile imagination, SO THAT HE BEHELD SEVEN MEN SECRETLY PLOTTING MISCHIEF AND DIRECTING INFAMIES OF THE WORST CHARACTER. And his thoughts were so forcibly concentrated on the leaders of the Miners' union that instead of recognizing in this picture WILLIAM A. PINKERTON, ROBERT A. PINKERTON, GEORGE D. BANGS, YOUNG ALLAN PINKERTON, JOHN CORNISH, EDWARD S. GAYLOR AND HIMSELF, he fancied he beheld Charles H. Moyer, William D. Haywood and the different members of the Executive Board of the Western Federation of Miners.
Without stopping to examine into things, Manager McParland promptly condemned the men HE FANCIED HE SAW ON THE PICTURE as a GANG OF CONSPIRATORS, and named them THE INNER CIRCLE. How little he realized that in doing so he was CONDEMNING HIMSELF AND HIS SIX ASSOCIATES, and how little did he dream that THE NAME WHICH HE INTENDED SHOULD BE A REPROACH to the officers of the Western Federation of Miners WOULD BE CORRECTLY AND PROPERLY APPLIED TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PINKERTON'S NATIONAL DETECTIVE AGENCY!
Manager McParland may perhaps scoffingly re-
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