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Updated: May 8, 2025
They stayed there three hours. The girls had followed this procession in an air-course that exactly paralleled the trail. When the men disappeared under the trees, they came together in a chattering group, obviously astonished, obviously irritated. Hours went by. Not a thing stirred in the jungle; not a sound came from it.
And then John Edstrom spoke, suggesting that they should agree upon their course of action in case they were offered violence. "You think there's much chance of that?" said some one. "Sure there be!" cried Mike Sikoria. "One time in Cedar Mountain we go see boss, say air-course blocked. What you think he do them fellers?
"Not at all," declared "Big Jack." He explained that by reversing the fan they could draw the smoke up through the air-course, which would clear the main passages for a time. "But, you see, some coal might catch fire, and some timbers; there might be falls of rock so they couldn't work some of the rooms again." "How long will they keep the mine sealed?" cried Hal, in consternation.
"Don't ye remember the time when the air-course was blocked before, and ye helped to get up the mules yeself? Ye thought nothin' of it then, and 'tis the same now. They'll get everybody out in time!" She was concealing her real feelings in order to keep him safe; he let her lead him on, while he tried to think of something else to do.
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