Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-21

membered her shy appeal that he would do the best he could for The Master Key"
 ~ think we had better go into the mine; we can talk there he said.
 "They are setting off n blast Gallon remarked.
 Dorr looked up at the car roaring past them overhead and .suid suddenly: Before anything else you ought to fix that trestle. Some day car will go over on the dump"
 Gallon looked up and then glanced at Dorr. "1 guess you're right John' I've thought of that myself Things have kind of gone ut loose ends Now I'll see to it myself with your help be cause have something to say to you"
 "Therc comes Ruth with a basket of lunch, said Dou
 "Oh. yes When l am away from the house she often picnics with me here in the mine. Say. I'm going up on the trestlc Have another talk with Tubbs He is all right but he has got careless. Tell him to keep up the slack of his cable. ! tell you John, have wanted Go talk Co you for a bong tine, but first I'm going to look after that cublc, because | can see you are right and we might have bad accident"
 AS the old man started into the mine. putting one foot after the other with that careIcSsucss characteristic lf men becoming decrcpit a man ran out of the mouth of the mine waving his arms Almost instantly following him came a pun of -iay-hluc smoke. which So8rei upward and spread out 1s ir it were the blossom Of cloud warmed into full bloom by the hot sunlight pouring down into tbc val- ley.
 Ruth let fall tho lunch basket and stared Vpvned at that dark murky boia iu thc hul Was John there? Was her futcf there; She knew tbnt that bulky cloud blooming into thc heavens meant denth beneath the ground Unwittingly she cried John" Then she remembered her 1 hial duty. and her next word, wmS- pered toward that following. cddying | mass of v0nor was Father" Thus do mailcns confess Co God the secrets of their heart. hut let us scc how they conceal from men these same sr,.rd mysvrics
 Ruth mntcucd her pace toward thp entrance of tbc mine The shalc gave way under her little fcot hut she struggled upward until sine renched the trcstlo Having lived ui. her 'i'o
 in % mining camp. there was no ter TOT for her in anything hu, falling rock. That cnu,i0u of smoke aoat | ing over the hillside seemed Co speak of disaster. She knew tbo peril o' a premature explosion. and she als0 | knew every working of "Thr Ma~tc' | Key" And again she wondered whgtA CT 1t was John nprr or hrr fathrr O. both who were stifing for air within that dark tunnel
 She did not src John Dnw ialEiug ir
 the engineer below her. rur cid she sol
 the miner who had just lrft thr miu. and was scramhiug down the m1drr ! Her thought WITS thHt during this uop. hour. when both shifts were off duty her father had gone in and accidentally
 set or a blast What blasting wa
 done in "Thc Master Key usually
 took place during Che uoou0ug but ow
 ing to carelcSsuass it was sometime
 the ease that am the hlusjs were no
 set off. She had socu mcu haIched on
 of that dark hole before furious gust
 of gas. And yet why was thc ore ca
 inside: That too spelled disaster
 She dropped thc lunch basket au' pulled out the pocket electric lsh
 which she always carried lt buruc
 only a tiny hole in the biliowug smok'
 Sue rushed bllndly In. trusting to be ? long familiarity with the tunnel to fu her father
 [ Thus it was that father and dauEhte 1 passed each other u the darkness
 Gallon grimy but silently cursing th 5 awkWarduess of his men, Ruth tryin Co choke out the names of the two me , she loved Suddenly she came into th { free air The little beam of her lam