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Updated: May 10, 2025
The corpse, of which the features are partly distinguishable, was found four hundred feet down in an old copper mine, where the dripping from hidden springs, the waters of which were rich in copper sulphate, had converted the man's body into a block of metal, retaining its natural shape. The body is drawn up in agony, and there is every indication that the man was killed by a cave-in of the mine.
Behind that broken mass, Fairchild felt sure, was his partner, torn, bleeding through the effects of some accident, he did not know what, past answering his calls, perhaps dead. Greater became the hole in the cave-in; soon it was large enough to admit his body.
A party of the natives who had for some time been left to themselves had excavated quite a little cavern in the side of the pit, and, as might have been expected, this mode of working ultimately resulted in a "cave-in". Fortunately for them, the workers who were responsible for it detected the signs of the approaching fall in time to avoid being buried by it; and when the dust-cloud occasioned by it presently subsided, and the new face thus laid bare came to be examined, it was discovered that a veritable "pocket" of rubies had been exposed, the stones every one of them of large size and especially fine fire and colour being so numerous that almost every shovelful of earth turned over contained one or more!
If you have ever been through it you know what condition it is in. My engineers tell me the walls are leaking, and that there is great danger of a cave-in unless it is very speedily repaired. I am also told that it will require about four hundred thousand dollars to put it in suitable condition for use.
"No," answered Tembarom sharply. "He didn't. You weren't in it then. He believed you'd married that Duke of Merthshire fellow. This is the way it was: Let me tell it to you quick. A letter that had been wandering round came to him the night before the cave-in, when they thought he was killed. It told him old Temple Barholm was dead.
The attack against the cave-in had begun, to progress with seeming rapidity for a few hours, then to cease, until the two men could remove the debris which they had dug out and haul it by slow, laborious effort to the surface. But it was a beginning, and they kept at it.
I 'm sure it was around there." The old books were mulled over, one after the other. At last Bardwell leaned forward and pointed to a certain page. "Here's an item under May 28. It says: 'Roady has been at me again! He wants me to fix things so that the three men in the Blue Poppy mine will get caught in there by a cave-in." The sheriff looked up.
Wordlessly they made the trip back to the hole in the cave-in and then followed the trail of new-laid track to the shaft. Up up the trip seemed endless as they jerked and pulled on the weighted rope, that their shaft bucket might travel to the surface.
Another foreman had just come up. "Mr. Bell," shouted Harry, "drive the men back who are not needed. We don't want to put a lot of weight on the soil here and cause a further cave-in." By this time Harry was at the edge of the platform. In a twinkling he was out on the sand. Grip! Mr. Payson had a strong hold on the collar of the assistant engineer. "Let go of me!" commanded Harry.
"Only forty feet of cave-in between us and freedom. That's all." "I should say that was enough," muttered the lad. "Ample." "Is there anything we can do, Mr. Phipps?" spoke up Ned. "Not a thing. All any of us can do at present is to wait. Knowing we are here, they will lose no time in attempting to get us out. I wish the telephone were working so we might let them know we are all right.
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