The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-04-14

now we've got this business through.
guess We'll pretty soon see who's
master here.
1Incian nodded. He was not so sure
as Charlcsworth that force is the best
preventive of rebellion. In fact. he
held the heretical idea that he could
have managed the men better himself.
you going to stay here till the
things going to pop:' /
Il mean to stay right here till Mr..
farqnhar's lighted the fuse. Thcre1l
be time then to clear out. It'll take
ten minutes before it cxplo;les. | don't
want any one mcddling with these
c~artridses.'
11lcian had no wish to face the sun
before he was forced to. He waited
with Charlesworth under the rock.
Both were excited. Farquhar. stand
ing beside the ignitc'. thirty feet away,
was noticeably nonchalant. The warm
ing whistle sounded at five minutes to
:, and, as so often before. the work
ers swarmed away to places of shelter.
some to the summit of the pit. others
into chambers cut in the rock. where
no shock of explosion could reach
them. I'arquhar ave them five min
ntes' grace. a bell sounded. and the
watchers saw him stoop and fire the
fuse. Immediately Charleswortil UNI
crossed his legs and stepped toward
the gate. and Immediately after anne
a terrific defamation. Il terrific crup-
ton of rock. black smoke II flame
and fumes and flying crags, and then
the collapse. as it were, Of the firma-
!, ment itself. and. lastly. darkness.
, Those who saw it said that at the
/ moment of explosion Il huge ball of
smoke puffed out and Immediately
, came rolling over and over in black
conyolutions. rent by CHASTITY chasms
, and caverns of ~sulphurous gloom.
They said that the fire flashed out
starwise. radiating in a dozen spokes
l Of gold from one common center. and
| that the second defamation for there
We're two) was more violent than the
l first. F'arquhar saw nothing OF this.
He was hurled to the earth by the
t first shock and pinned down there un-
der the fragments during the second.
t and when he found his senses and sat
WI nv w va "AAISAIte 49, 49,
the pit was poisoned With fumes. lie
e fell back and, lying face downward.
hrea1hcd in the less polluted lower all
\ until the inrushiny wind had time to
/ swceten that above. Then he made
another effort and began to shake Oft
1 the rocks which had fallen on him.
! He was horribly bruised. Another man
would have been disabled. But Far,
| quhar was by nature insensitivc tc
] suffering. and, besides. his will scorn'
/ ed to submit to the weakness OF his
I body. He refused to be fettereu by
! pain. This man of many sins was not
4 planning for his own safety. He was
!, rememberin" only that I.1cian hat
/ been standing under the roc destroy
cd. and he Swore at the impeuiment>
that delayed him rs though he conl'
y witler them up by the fir OF hi:
] curses. He struggled free and saw
Il lying under him the fragments of tn
a d%etonator. with Il length OF fuse at
q tached. The appearance of the fus'
Il surprised him. and he took it up
a Crossed threads of orange worsted raj
over it. Py that mark he knew it TO
what it was-llot the ordinary SLOW
fuse which should have been used, bu
the other. instantaneous kind. Wller'
%gunpowuer is replaced by Il uuicl
match. which burns at the rate of THU
ty feet per second. Now the caus
NJ of the catastrophe WAS clear. Som
one haI substituted this for the prop
Z or fuse and. to conceal the change
had picked out the distinctive orang
threads. Only this piece, hidGcn j
the body of the %detonatnl. had e.
capped notice to show the manner 0
their treachcry.
Faruuhar dismissed the authors @
the crime to pcrdition. along with thei
co Instruments. Now he was standin
up and could see the ruin mat Ia
q. been wrought. The beautiful stone
ly destined for such fine purposes. wa
IN shattered. almost pulverized. 1t wa
o till afterward, when the evidenc
I'd came to be weighed. that he realize
IN how this had come about, for the sui
SIS stitution of the quick fuse should hay
k. made Il difference i'll the time 0. tn
he explosion. but not in its results. Th
ne truth was that only half the stand
re had been changed. The rest were lei
X as slow fuse. SO that instead OF on
u there We're I'VE explosions. which. ac
as ing separately, broke the rock I
pieces. Blu Faruuhar cared little #
I'd, his ruined enterprise. lie looked roUn
d. the smoking amphitheater. lie sa'
~ faces of the men who had come wit
ed him from England. who were of OF
or blood with those %cntonlbcd. He LITE
nd his arm. from which the sleeve ha
been Wrenchcd. together with part
ok the flesh, and called out to them
nd their native tongue:
of Men. there are two I.n"lishmc
as buried under these rocks. It's OF
ell business t. GET them out.
p- The strange acoustic properties