The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-09-12

You can see what will happen unless
can substitute a cash bond for the
amount due before that tine. Isn't
that sufficient?'
ut ought to be. But as I said l
want 70 see where the ore comes
from"
You'll see in the morntng-if I've
got 1t" answered FairchIId with new
hope thrilling in his voice "AD that
I have so far is an assay # some
drill scrapings. don't know how
thick the vein is or whether its going
to pinch out in ten minutes after we
strike it. But I'll know mighty soon"
Every cent that Robert FairchiId
possessed in the world was in his
pockets-two hundred dollars. After
he had paid his men for their three
days of labor there would be exactly
twenty dollars left. But Fairchild did
not hesitate. To FarreIl's Office he
went and with him TO an interview,
in chambers. with the Judge Then.
the necessary permission having been
granted he hurried back to the mine
and into the drift. there to find the
last of the muck being scraped away
from beneath the site of the caye-in
Fairchild paid off Then he turned to
the foreman.
"How many of these men are game
to take a chance?"
pretty near all of emf there's
any kind of a gamble to it."
There's a lot of gamble I've got
just twenty dollars in my pocket
enough to pay each man one dollar
apiece for nights work If my bunch
doesn't pan out. If it does pan. the
wages are twenty dollars a day for
three days with everybody, including
myself, working like HI, Who's
gameT
The answer came in unison. Fair
child led the way TO the chamber.
seized a hammer and took his place
There's twO-hundred-dOllar ore
back of this foot wall if we can break
in and start new Slope" he an
nOunced. at takes a six-foot hole
to reach it, and we can have the whole
story by morning. Let's CO."
Along the great length of the foot
wall, extending all the distance of the
work five men to the drills and as
many to the sledges, as they started
their double lacking. Midnight came
the first of the six-foOt drills sank to
its ultimate depth. Then the second
and third and fourth; finally the fifth.
They moved on. Hours more of work,
and the operation had been repeated.
The wOrkmen hurried for the powder
house, far down the drift, by the shaft,
Juggling back in their pockets the yell
low candle-like sticks of dynamite.
with their waxy wrappers and their
gelatinOus contents, together with
fuses and caps. Crimping nipperS-
the inevitable accompaniment of a
miner-came forth from the pockets
Of the men. Careful tamping, then
the men took their places at the fuses.
"Give the wordr' one of them an
| nounced crisply as he turned to Fair
child. Each of us'H light one of
these things, and then I say we'll run !
Because this is going to be some ex-
| plOsiOn ~
Fairchild smiled the smile Of Il man
| whose heart is humping at its maxi
mum speed. Before him in the long
| line of the foot wall were ten holes,
| "uphtles," downs and "swimmers,"
| attacking the hidden ore in every di-
| rection. Ten holes drilled six feet
into the rock and tanped with double
| charges of dynamite. He straight
| ened
"All right, men! ReadyY'
Ready"
Touch 'em off!
The carbide lamps were he! .'Ose
| to the fuses for a second. Sool hey
were all going, splitting like so many
| venOmOus. angry serpents-but neither
| Fairchild nor the miners had stopped
to watch. They were running as hard
as possible for the shaft and for the
| protection that distance might give. \
wait that seemed ages. Then:
"Oner'
| "And twO-and three -
| ''There goes four and f1ve-they
went tOgether!''
| n-eight-nine-"
| Again a wait. while they looked at