American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1922-12-02

1 F--S~.~ ~ kOH 0lICIIIIVs M
sa& long time In thought striving Ia
! hnd some way to send consolation Ia
The girl who was grisving now, strue.
eing to dgurs Q means Of telling be-
nat he cared. that he was sorry. and
that his heart hurt too. Hut there
was none.
Again Q moan from the man on he
bed, and ct last . slight resistance to
he sting Of the batteries. An hour
passed two; gradually Harry came to
himself, 70 stare about him In q won
dering. vacant manner and then to
fssten bic eyes upon Tairchild. He
sesmed to be struggling for speech, for
J.co-ordination Of ideas. Finaliy, a9ter
many ulnutes-- Lta
~xAats you. Boyr
sYes. Harry"
But where are wsr
/ Were In a hospital and you're
Knocked out. Don't yeu know whsss
yea'vs besnr
T1on't know anything sines I lid
down the wall"
~6ines you whatr'>
But Harry had lspsed Into ssmi-
consciousness again. And Il was not
untfl late In the night aftsr the rescue.
following a few hours Of rest forced
upsn him BY the inferno. that Fair
child once more could eoavsrss with
his stricken partner.
ITS something I'll ave to show you
TO explain" said Harry. II can't ten
you about It. You know where that
httls assure % IN the 'anGng wan,
away back In re stoper
yes"
well, that's H. That's where I got
Oat."
'.But what happened BEFORE thatr'
swhat didn't 'appenr' asked Harry.
with q painful grin. EVERYTHING In
the world 'sppsnsd. I--but what did
FsirchIld reached forth and laid .
hand on the brawny one Of bis part
ner.
.We're rich, Harry" he said. "richer
than I ever dreamed We could be. The
ores a. good a. that Of the Silver
Queeni"
"The bloody ell Il isr Then Harry
dropped back. on his pillow for long
time and simply grinned at the cell
ing. Somewhat anxious, Fairchild
leaned forward, but his partners eyes
were open and smiling. "Pm just let.
ding It sink mi" he announced. and
Yairchild was silent, saving his ques-
tions until IT" had sunk. Then:
"You were saying something about
that nssuref"
But there Is other things nrst
After you went to the assayers,
| fooled around there In the chamber
and thought ia just take = nyer and
blow ND them 'oles that I'd drilled II
the 'anging wall at the same time that
| shot the other. So ! put In the
powder and fuses, tamped 'em down
and then thinks. thinks !. that there's
somebody moving around in the drift
But l didn't pay sny attention to it
YOU know. l was busy and all that
and YOU often ear noises that sount
funny. So I Sc. 'em off--that 10. IN
the fuses and l started to run. Well
IL admit any more'n started whe'
bloeyy-y-y, right in front Of me. tn
whole world turned upside down, ant
III felt myself knocked back Into tn
chamber. And there was them fuses
All of 'em burning. Well, manage'
TO pull out the one from the foot wal
and stamp II out. but didn't ave tim
TO get ut the others. And the oni'
!. place where there was a chance 10
me was clear at the end Of the cham
ber. Already I was bleeding ike
stuck hog where q whole art noun
tain 'ad It me on the cad, ana
didn't know much what ! was doing.
Just wanted to get behind Something
that's all I could think Of. 30 ] SHE
, for that assure In the rocks an
!. crawled back In there, trying
squeeze as far along On ] could. An
,ere's the funny part Of It'll kept Q
, soingi"
"You whatr'
/ kept on going. I'd always thoues
h Il was just q place wnere tue sns'1
wan "a slipped. and that II sleeps
q few feet back. But II don't-it 90
on, crawled along It ~ fast -
could--I was about woozy, anyway
and BIZ and by card the shots 20 Q
behind me. But there wasn't any u
In going back--the tunnel was cave
in. So I kept on.
.After while. ran into stream
water that came out Of the inside
, the IN somewhere, and took drin
1t gave me bit Of strength: al
then kept on some more-until all
J a sudden, I slipped and fell, Just wn'
, I was beginning to see dyelight. Al
! that's all know. 'Ow long ave
|, been gonef
I Long enough TO make me era
headed" Fairchild answered with
little laugh. Then his brow furrowe
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