Chapter 23, The Meat Market. Surprises abound in the Fairview Saloon when Lorcan leads Barabal into the bar, ostensibly to meet a couple of friends. He has brought her to a meat market, in her view, a room of excited, salivating miners. In Colonel Clement E. Begg’s expert hands, her appearance breathes even greater life into the fires of that excitement, while the miners’ reaction only fuels Barabal’s revulsion.