Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-07
BY sEWEI,Li FORD

Will you call him right upT $40
THAT r VIII. SIR" says the superip4
tendent. ""if you'll tell me how"
why says waddy, couldn't you.s
er---telephone to hirh or send a mes.
senger?' s."r O. - 1tfr-,'
1t seems that can't be done. .You
might try shouting down the SHAFT,
though" says the Welshman, with .
twinkle in his eyes. " : -
,Waddy would have gone hoar5s
doin' it. too, il I hadn't given him
the nudge. Wake up" says l. You're
being kidded."
But see here. my man. waddy
begins III
"Mr. Llanders is the name" says thd
superintendent a bit crisp. III
"'Ah. yes. Thanks" says Waddys
1T is quite important. Mr.. Llanderss
that find Bruzinski at once"
'Mayhap he'll be up by midnight fof
bite to eat" says Llanders..
Then Wen just have to go down
where he is announces Waddy.
Llanders stares at him curiousd
You'd have an interesting time dol
ing that young man." says he; very
interesting"
But say" starts in waddy again.
which was where shut him off,
Back up. Waddy." says /. before
you bug the case entirely. Let me
ask Mr.. flanders where can call up
your good friend Judson."
THAT I couldn't rightly say. sir.
says flanders. ut might be one
place. and it might be another Maybe
they'd know better at the office of his
estate in Scranton. but as he's been
dead these eight years" ~
Check" says I. "It would have
been a swell blum if it had worked!
though, wouldn't it?"
Llanders' INDUCES in a grim smile
But it didn't" says he.
That's the sad part" says I, "for
Mr.. Fiske here is, in great stew ID
see this Bruzinski party right away
There's lady in the case, az yeiI
might know; one they met while they
:. were soIdierin' abroad. So IL there's
any way you could fix it for them to
get together"
Going downs the only way" says
Llanders. and that's strictly against
orders.'
Except on a pass, eh?" says II
. Lucky we brought that along. wadI
dy, slip 1t to Mr.. Llanders. No. don,t
: look stupid. Feel in your right hand
vest pocket. That's 1t, one of those
> w-backed ones with a double I'd
In the corners. All. here! Don't you
know. how to present a government
pass?" And has to take it away
from him and tuck 1t careless into the
supertntendent's coat pocket.
~ OF course" says Lianders, 'if you
young gentlemen are on official b,iSi
ness, 1t makes a difference" %gi
Then let's hurry along" says Wad1
-dy., startin' impatient
Dressed like that ?"s says Llanders.
starin'. at Waddy.s 9Th avenue cos-
tune. II take it you've not been I'M j
dergronnd before, sir?" "a
Only In the subway" says WadGy. II
3 you'll hnd:a coal mine quite unlike
the subway" says Llanders. IT think
we can NIX you up for it. though"
They did. And when Waddy had
S"SHPS~ AAo AAOSh COaC Tor OVeraUS
and Jumper and added pair Of rub
Der boots and greasy cap with an
acetylene lamp stuck In the front Cd
1T he sure wouldn't have been recog1
.nized even by his favorite waiter al
the club. I expect L looked about al
tough. too. And I'll admit that ali
this preparation, seemed kind of fool
ish there in the office. Ten minutes
later l knew it wasn't Not a bit.
DO we go down in a car or some
thing?" asks Waddy
Not IL you go with me-" says Liam
ders. We'll walk down slope 8. BED
fore we start, however, it will be best
for me to tell you that this was a
drowned NINE"
Listens excitin'," says 1. Meanin'
what?"
-Four years ago the creek came in
on u.s." says Llanders, flooded us to
within ten feet of the shaft mouth!
We lost only dozen men, but it was
two years before we had the lower
levels clear. We manage to keep ia
down now with the pumps. Bruzin4
ski is most likely at the further end
of the lowest level" ~
us he." says Waddy II must see
him, you know" n
Whether he took in all this about