yet those bones and old dreams call to him like troubled voices from his childhood , like the ghost of every unfulfilled ambition he has ever held , and he knows even z then that he is n't going to turn the china shaft meekly over to the company and the federal pricks without at least one look inside for himself he instructs turner , who is bitterly disappointed but not really argumentative ( he understands about msha as well as ripton ... maybe , as a blast-monkey , even better ) , to have yellow restricted area tapes placed across the opening .