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== The scab ==
== The scab ==
In June of that year, Francisco prepared to take his annual one-month vacation in [[Galt's Gulch]]. By now the Gulch was almost self-sufficient; Midas Mulligan bought a limited number of goods, possibly including [[steel]], from the outside.
In June of that year, Francisco prepared to take his annual one-month vacation in [[Galt's Gulch]]. By now the Gulch was almost self-sufficient; Midas Mulligan bought a limited number of goods, possibly including [[steel]], from the outside. (Where he got them, the novel never says, but he might have gotten them from the same [[black market]]eers who bought their goods from none other than Ragnar Danneskjold.)
But Francisco then heard the dreadful news that [[Dagny Taggart]] was overdue to return to an airfield in Colorado, and was missing and presumed lost in the mountains. Francisco delayed his usual coming to the Gulch for days while he searched the mountains for the wreckage of her aircraft. Finally he could stay away no longer, and came to the Gulch to pay his respects to John Galt. Then Galt surprised him by saying that he had a [[scab]] staying in his house. This was something that Francisco positively had to see. He was shocked to discover that the "scab" was Dagny herself. She had indeed crash-landed, ''in the Gulch,'' after trying to follow one of John Galt's recruitment flights—but now that he had found her alive, he was able to call off his search and remain in the Gulch for the rest of June.
But Francisco then heard the dreadful news that [[Dagny Taggart]] was overdue to return to an airfield in Colorado, and was missing and presumed lost in the mountains. Francisco delayed his usual coming to the Gulch for days while he searched the mountains for the wreckage of her aircraft. Finally he could stay away no longer, and came to the Gulch to pay his respects to John Galt. Then Galt surprised him by saying that he had a [[scab]] staying in his house. This was something that Francisco positively had to see. He was shocked to discover that the "scab" was Dagny herself. She had indeed crash-landed, ''in the Gulch,'' after trying to follow one of John Galt's recruitment flights—but now that he had found her alive, he was able to call off his search and remain in the Gulch for the rest of June.