At the End of the
Lower Level.
By AZILE AIDYL.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.
“My heaven!” said old Sinclair as he
rose Impatiently from the table and
reached for his hat. “If anly I was
strong enough to work it I'd risk the
cave-in, put up a drill there at the end
of the lower level and bore through
that confounded rock myself, and the
timber gang c'd go to"—
The door slammed, and his daughter
heard him stride on down the trail
leading to the mine.
Helen did not wonder at the outburst
of temper. Her father had sunk his
last dollar in this mine, and now with
riches—as he confidently believed—al-
most within his grasp the timber gang
refused to work without their last
month's pay.
It was impossible to “drift” without
them. The mine was unsafe and liable
to cave without the support of the big
timbers. Sinclair was confident that
once through this wall of slate which
they had struck In the lower level he
would find again the rich ledge which
had suddenly stopped 200 feet above.
Then wages would be pald with inter-
est.
To Mason, the owner of the adjoin-
ing mine, he had said, “Any darn foo!
knows that a high grade four foot
ledge Isn't going to stop off short, as
though cut in two with a saw, unless
old nature's had a spasm and in twist-
ing things about given this slate a
chance to wedge itself in.”
And now as he swung on down the
steep trail he met Mason coming up.
“Things have come to a crisis there,
I hear,” said the latter, nodding his
head In the direction of the mine, “and
I'd like to talk to you about it before
you go down.
“The miners will not work without
the protection of the timbers. [ be-
lieve you are nearer through that slate
than you realize. 1 was down in the
drift today, and the character of the
rock is changing. It's quite possible
that one more day's work would bring
you to the quartz, but the men have
quit and you are helpless. What I
want to propose is that you let me go
down there and work for two or three
days. No, no” as Sinclair raised his
hand to protest; “it's all right. There
is less danger of a cave-in with only one
drill at work. Let me try it for a cou-
ple of days anyway.”
“It's exactly what I would do my-
self if 1 was equal to it,” said Sinclair,
“but it's a big thing for me to accept
from you, Mason. If anything went
wrong I"—
“Nonsense! [It won't go wrong, It's
only giving me a chance to prove I am
right. And no one need know what 1
am doing. I'd a little rather you would
not speak of it, particularly to—to Hel-
en. Just a notion. And now I'd like
to begin this work tonight.”
Sinclair simply grasped his hand.
Then together they strode down to the
mine.
Nverything was quiet. The pound-
ing of the stamps had ceased. The
only sign of activity was in the engine
room, where the engineer was. as usual,
pumping the water out of the shaft.
Sinclair motioned to him. The huge
“bucket” poised at the mouth of the
shaft. They stepped well on to the
center, holding to the rope, and began
their descent. Down, down, past the
different levels, which were swallowed
up in inky blackness, the bucket glided
noiselessly on, the only sound being
the drip-dripping of the water as it
percolated through the timbers lining
the shaft.
At last they came to a standstill
1,000 feet below. Sinclair reached
over and pressed a button at the side
of the shaft, and the entire tunnel was
ablaze with electric lights, stretched
along its roof,
The two men traversed the entire
length of the tunnel to the end of the
“stope,” where the miners had ceased
work a few houré before. Sinclair
helped Mason to get the Burleigh into
position, and then, saying he himself
would remain at the engine through
the night In case Mason wanted help,
he walked through to the shaft and
signaled to be hoisted above.
Mason worked until early morning,
set off his blasts and went home for a
few hours’ rest. Returning at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, he saw that his work
of the night before had uncovered rich
gold bearing quartz. He chipped off a
piece and put it in his pocket, and then,
intensely excited, he pushed the car,
filled with the worthless slate, along
the track to the crosscut, where an
enormous bulkhead support was being
built with the “waste.”
Mason deposited his load on the
“dump” and turned to push back when
he heard an appalling roar, but only
for a fraction of a second. then a tre-
mendous crash, and he felt himself
hurled with terrific force against the
bulkhead, and all was blank.
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Up on the hill at the Sinclair cottage
Helen had just returned from her ride,
but she lingered, chatting with her fa-
ther and feeding Sultan his usual
lumps of sugar. Suddenly they heard
a dull, muffled boom,
Sinclair turned ghastly white as he
exclaimed:
“My God—a cave!”
“Oh, dad, thank heaven the men quit
work! There's no one in the mine.”
“But there is! Mason's there!” cried
Sinclair as he rapidly tightened the
girth of Sultan's saddle. “He thought
he could bore through that wall him-
self. He's been there since yesterday.
He asked me not to tell you.”
And the old man sprang into the sad-
dle like a boy of sixteen and dashec
down the steep trail.
Helen sank imply on the lower step
of the porch. Mason to do this thing
for her father—Mason, whom she had
flaunted and treated with scant cour-
tesy!
Her father's words, “He asked me
not to tell you,” spoke eloquently of
wounded pride caused by her mocking
words which had sent him away, with
the command to remain away for the
last three months.
And now-—oh, she could not bear it!
She gathered up her riding habit and
ran swiftly down the trail.
When she reached the mine the en-
tire population of the camp had gath-
ered In excited groups near the holst.
Sinclair, ready to make the first trip
down, would permit no one to go with
him. Slowly the engineer lowered the
old man down the shaft.
The time seemed an eternity, par-
ticularly to the tall, slim girl who stood
motionless and white apart from the
crowd. her eyes stra®ed to catch the
slightest vibration of the signal wire.
At last came two short jerks—the sig-
nal to holst quickly. A great sob came
from the entire crowd.
“It's no use, my friends,” Sinclair
said, with his eyes on Helen. “The
cave began in the 800 foot level and
has buried everything as far as the
crosscut.”
“But the manhole, dad!”
through Helen's white lips.
“There is only one chance in a mil-
lion that Mason was at that end of
the crosscut, But if he was he would
by this time have made his way
through the north drift to the foot of
the manhole, and then think of the
climb—hundreds of feet!"
Sinclair led the way, and the anxious
crowd moved on to the north end of
the claim, where now existed the only
egress from the lower level.
Dozens of men were ready to make
the descent down the small round
came
| well, with its hundreds of feet of lad-
der, but Sinclair selected one of the
younger, stronger men, and just as he
stepped over the edge a ‘“clip-clip”
was heard. He drew back, and the
crowd listened.
The sound came nearer, eager eyes
peered into the dark below, and in a
few moments eager hands stretched
down to lift an exhausted, half faint.
ing man to the surface. His forehead
was cut, and the blood made his white
face ghastly. His left arm hung limp
and broken.
Helen, with a cry, pushed through
the crowd to his side and oblivious of
any one in the world but him whis-
pereG a word in his grimy ear.
His pale face Lrightened. His eyes
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shone as he took her hand, and, turn-
ing to Sinclair, he said: “You were
right, old man. The gold is there. But
I think,” with a glance toward Helen,
“that 1 as well as you have found a
fortune through the lower level.”
Supposing the Ax Had Fallen!
Some years ago an inquisitive med-
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a Scottish visitor to the metropolis, to
his wife, “that he must be hired to
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one of the attendants came In and
made fast the ax before releasing him
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