Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 21, 1922, Page 2

(Continued from last issue) ~ Five méen were with him, to help him carry in ropes, heavy pulleys, weights and a large metal shaft bucket, then to move out the smaller of the pumps and trundle away with them, leaving the larger one and the larger engine for a single load. At last Harry turned to his paraphernalia and rolled up his sleeves. “Ere's where we work!” he an- nounced. “It's us for a pulley and bucket arrangement until we can get the ’oist’ to working and the skip to running. 'Elp me ’eave a few timbers.” It was the beginning of a three- days’ job, the building of a heavy stag- ing over the top of the shaft, the affix- ing of the great pulley and then the attachment of the bucket at one end, and the skip, loaded with pig iron, on the other. Altogether, it formed a sort of crude, counterbalanced ele- vator, by which they might lower themselves into the shaft, with various bumpings and delays—but which worked successfully, nevertheless. To- gether they plled into the big, iron lugging along spikes and edges and ropes, Then, pulllng away at the cable which held the welghts, they furnished the neces- sary gravity to travel downward. An ecrie journey, faced on one side by the crawling rope of the skip as it traveled along the rusty old track.on its watersonked ties, on the other by the still dripping timbers of the aged shaft and its broken, rotting ladder, while the carbide lanterns cast shad- ows about, while the pulley above creaked and the eroded wheels of the skip squeaked and protested! Down- ward—# hundred feet—and they col- lided with the wupward-bound skip, to fend oft from It and start on again. The air grew colder, more moist. The carbides spluttered and flared. A slight bump, and they were at the bottom. Before them the drift tun- nel, damp and dripping-and dark, awalted, seeming to throw back the flare of the carbides as though to shleld the treasures which might lle beyond. Harry starteq forward a step, then pausing, shifted his carblde and laid a hand on his companion’s shoul- der. “Boy,” he sald slowly, “we're start- ing at something now—and I don't know where it's going to lead us. There's a cave-In up 'ere, and if we're ever golng to get anywhere in this mine, we'll 'ave to go past it. And I'm afrald of what we're going to find wher cut_our wye through!” JUSTRATIONS Il‘LR.B» Van Nice ~Clouds of the past seemied to rise and float past Fairchild—clouds which carried visions of a white, brok- en old man sitting by a window, wait- ing for death, visions of an old safe and a letter it contained. For a long, long moment, there was silence. Then came Harry’s volce again._ _ “I'm afraid it ain’t going to be good news, Boy. But there ain’t no wye to get around it. It's got to come out sometime—things like that won't stay ’idden forever. And your father's gone now—gone where it can't 'urt 'im.” “I know,” answered Falrchild, in a queer, husky voice. “He must have known, Harry—he must have been will- ing that it come, now that he is gone. He wrote me as much.” “It's that or nothing. If we sell the mine, some one else will find it. And we can't 'it the vein without following the drift to the stope. But you're the one to make the decision.” “He told me to go ahead, if meces- sary, And we'll go, Harry.” CHAPTER XI They started forward then, making their way through tNe slime and silt of the drift flooring, slippery and wet from years of flooding. On—on—they stopped. Progress had become impossible. Be- fore them, twisted and torn and piled about in muddy confusion, the tim- bers of the mine suddeniy showed in a perfect barricade, supplanted from behind by plles of muck and rocky refuse which left no opening to the chamber of the stope beyond. Har- ry's carbide went high in the air, and he slid forward, to stand a moment in thought before the obstacle. At place after place he surveyed it, finally to turn with a shrug of his shoulders. “It's going to mean more'n a month of the 'ardest kind of work, Boy,” came his final announcement. *’Ow it could 'ave caved In llke that is more thah I know. I'm sure we timbered It good.” There was only one thing to do— turn back. Fifteen minutes more and they were on the surface, making their plans; projects which entailed work from morning until night for many a day to come. Harry reached for a new ax and indicated another. “We'll cut tles first,” he announced. And thus began the weeks of effort, weeks in which they worked with crude appliances; weeks in which they dragged the heavy stulls and other timbers Into the tunnel and then low- ered_them down the shaft to the dritt, Wo hundred feet below, only fo follow them In their counterbalanced bucket and laboriously pile them along the sides of the drift, there to awailt use later on. Weeks in which they worked in mud and slime, as they shoveled out the muck and with their gad hooks tore down loose portions of the hang- ing wall to form a roadbed for their new tram, It was a slow, galling progress, but théy kept at It. Gradually the tram Mne -began ‘to take shape, pleced to- gether from old portions of the track which still lay in the drift-and supple- mented by others bought cheaply at that gm\eer of miner’s hopes—the Yard in Ohadf. At last it was finished ; the Work of moving ‘the heavy timbers . hecame. easier now as they were shunted onto the small tram truck from which the body had been dismantled _and trundled along the rails to thg cave-in, there to be piled in readiness for their use. And final- Iy— A pick swung in the air, to give forth a chunky, smacking sound, as it struck water-softened, spongy wood. 'The attack against the cave-in had be- gun. A foot at a time they tore away the oid, broken, spliutered timbers and the rocky refuse which lay piled be- hind each shivered beam; only to stop, carry away the muck, and then rebuild. Cold and damp, in the moist air of the tunnel they labored, but there was a joy in it all. Down here they could forget Squint Rodaine and his chalky- faced son; down here they could feel that they were working toward a goal and lay aside the handicap which humans might put in their path, Day after day of labor and the in- dentation upon the cave-in grew from a matter of feet to one of yards. A week. Two. Then, as Harry swung his pick, he lurched forward and went to his knees. “I've gone through!” he announced in happy surprise. “I've gone through. We're at the end of it!" Up went Fairchild’s carbide, Where the pick still hung in the rocky mass, 8 tiny hole showed, darker than the surrounding refuse. There was Jjoy in Harry's voice as he mgde a momen- tary survey. “It's fairly dry be’ind there,” he an- nounced. “Otherwise we'd have been scrambling around in water up to our necks. We're lucky there, any'ow.” Again the attack and again the hole widened. At last Harry straightened. “We can go in now,” came finally. ; “Are you willing to go with me?” “You mean—?" But Harry stopped him, “Let’s don’t talk about it till we 'ave to, Come on,” Silently they crawled through the opening, the siit and fine rock rattling about them as they did so, to come upon fairly dry earth on the other side, and to start forward. Suddenly, as they walked along, Harry took the lead, holding his lantern far ahead of him, with- one big hand behind it, as though for a reflector. Then, just as suddenly, he turned. “Let's go out,” came shortly. “Why?” “It's there!” In the light of the lantern, Harry's face was white, his big lips livid. “Let’s go—" But Falrchild stopped him. “Harry,” he sald, and there was de- termination in his voice, “if it's there —we've got to face it. Don't you think that certaln people would make an investigation if we should happen to quit the mine now?" “The Rodaines!” _ Continued in next issae $1.98 New Goods We are pleased to announce that a shipment of NEW FALL MILLINERY AND MILLINERY SUPPLIES are here, we will continue to have for our trade every- thl_ng that is new, novel and in demand in the way of Millinery and supplies. MIDSUMMER MILLINERY SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY . . There is still a big demand for summer millinery and Saturday we will have special prices that will pay you to take advantage of. Specially priced at- 2.98 38 OTHER SATURDAY SPECIALS Aluminum pans ,kettles, etc., at. . . ... Grey granite ware prlced EXERSWINGS (the swing for play and ex- ercise) special . _ Tt is not too late to get a good bathing suit. You will find a world of fine bargains in our line now. 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