The diamond drill., 1921-12-31
The Girl,
a Horse
and a
Dog

CHAPTER IX.-Jeanie cautions Brough-
ton against selling the mine. under any
circumstances, and. apparently in a spirit
: conversation with Daddy Hiram.
Hroughton decides he will stick TO the
property.
CHAPTER x.-Next day, during STAN
tords temporary absence from the mine.
an enemy. without doubt Bulierton.
on s o RpTs oSs %S h Ssa
day.
years."
'But see here; what's the use of
butting your head against stone walli 7
You're stuck, world without end, and
you know II. This flooded hole In the
ground is Of no more use to you than
a pair of spectacles 10 blind man T.
perhaps not It's poor thing, but
mine own i guess / can keep IL as
souvenir II feel like II, can't III"
"Oh, h-ll" he gritted, and turning
on his heel went away.
After he had gone | patted myself
on the back bit for not losing my
temper and then, Just to have an ex-
cuse for staying away from the cabin
and the BulIerton vicinity, made fires
under the boilers and got up steam In
the former pumping spasm Daddy and
/ had operated only the two big CEN
trifugals, ignoring the deep-well pumps
designed TO lift the water from the
lower levels of the mine.
Just TO try something that we hadn't
tried before, / got steam on the deep
wellers, and soon found that the
machinery. which we hadn't taken
down in the general overhaulIng,
needed tinkering before II would be
safe to run IL. Banking the boiler
fires, ! went Mt the job slngle-handed
and managed 10 wear out the liyelong
day at IT,
II took me all the afternoon and
then some to get the machinery cleaned
and tinkered up and reassembled In
paving over the supplies in the mine
storeroom-stuff left by the former op-
erators-we had found an acetylene
flare torch and can Of carbide and /
rugged the torch so that / could 90 on
working after dark.
II was along about nine o'clock when
i got the deep-wells ready 20 run and
freshened up the fires and turned the
steam on. In curious contrast TO the
care which had been taken 10 provide
a discharge outlet for the centrlfugals
the Cornish pumps had merely an Iron
trough which ran to a ditch leading
down TO the bench below the mlnr
buildings. After q few minutes OF thf
clanking and banging, the water hcgar
TO come. IL was horribly sme'ine
stun, thick and discolored evidences
sufficient that IL was coming from h
bottom OF the mine. The two pumps
together were lifting about an eight
inch stream. and IL occurred To me a.
once that IL / could set the centrifu
gals going at the same time the mass
attack might accomplish what the
piece-meal assault couldn't.
Throwing In the clutch that drove
the big rotarles, ran up against what
Daddy would have called "circum-
stance" There wasn't power enough
4 10 drive both sets Of pumps coupled
in together; at least not with the
steam pressure the boilers were car
rying. Thinking TO get more power by
pushing the fires bit harder. I went
TO the detached boiler room to stoke
up. leaving the deep wells changing
away I'm the shafthouse. ! had fired
two OF the furnaces and was al work
on the third when series OF grind
ing crashes I'm the machinery sent me
flying 60 find out what was going
wrong
What was happenlng-what had al
ready happened-was a plenty. AS !
have said the great Cornish water
llfters were driven through train
OF gearing. When reached the scene.
the steam engine was still running
smoothly, but the pumps had stopped.
The reason didn't have TO be looked
for with microscope. The gear-train
was wreck. with one OF the wheels
smashed into bits. and half OF the
cogs stripped from it's mesh-mate. II
that's what you'd call II.
Mechanically stopped the engine
and went 10 view the remains. The
deep-weils were done for-there was
no question about that; they'd never
viuh oe"hh Nhtt hcW oct "a So"
MOULD be Installed. That much deter
ined. l began TO look for the cause
the calamity. Naturally, ! supposed
lat cracked cog I'm one OF the
wheels had given way, and with this
for q starter. the general smash would
follow ms matter OF course. But
a careful and even painful scrutiny Of
the wreckage failed 70 reveal the cog
with the anclenf fracture Each break