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Updated: June 9, 2025
The water had smashed through the skin of the earth and was pouring into the old shallow workings of Twenty-Two. Deep down below, a rush of black water caught the last gang waiting for the cage, and as they clambered in, the whirl was about their waists. The cage reached the pit-bank, and the Manager called the roll.
It seemed a terribly long time to wait amid that noise and dust, and every now and then Black Bess relieved her feelings by making hideous grimaces at her when she passed the cabin door; but Stephen ascended at last, very stern-looking and silent, for Tim had told him Martha's business; and he hurried her away from the pit-bank before he would listen to the detailed account she was longing to give.
"Why, mother," said the boy, with trembling voice, "fayther gave me a shilling to get change just as we was leaving the pit-bank, and I dropped it somewhere as I were coming down the lane. I'm almost sure Ben Taylor's lad found it, and picked it up; but when I axed him if he hadn't got it, he said `No, and told me he'd knock my head against the wall if I didn't hold my noise.
"Good night, Dad," said Jim, as his father left the room. Josephine went to the window. She had rather a stiff, poupee walk. "How is the night?" she said, as if to change the whole feeling in the room. She pushed back the thick grey-silk curtains. "Why?" she exclaimed. "What is that light burning? A red light?" "Oh, that's only the pit-bank on fire," said Robert, who had followed her.
She'll chuck herself down the shaft in a minute, shouted the Manager. But he need not have troubled; Unda was afraid of Death. She wanted Kundoo. The Assistant was watching the flood and seeing how far he could wade into it. There was a lull in the water, and the whirlpool had slackened. The mine was full, and the people at the pit-bank howled.
The water had smashed through the skin of the earth and was pouring into the old shallow workings of Twenty-Two. Deep down below, a rush of black water caught the last gang waiting for the cage, and as they clambered in, the whirl was about their waists. The cage reached the pit-bank, and the Manager called the roll.
Far away down the gallery a small pumping-engine, used for keeping dry a deep working and fed with steam from above, was throbbing faithfully. They heard it cease. 'They have cut off the steam, said Kundoo hopefully. 'They have given the order to use all the steam for the pit-bank pumps. They will clear out the water.
'What's brought thee to the pit? asked Bess fiercely; 'we want no scatter-witted hill girls here, I can tell ye. So get off the pit-bank, afore I drive thee off. 'What's all this hullabaloo? inquired Tim, making his appearance at the cabin door. 'Why, Martha, what brings thee at the pit? Come in here, and tell me what's up now.
At last, standing beside a wagon, a man's form! the chair sank on its rests, Morel stepped off. He was slightly lame from an accident. "Is it thee, Paul? Is 'e worse?" "You've got to go to London." The two walked off the pit-bank, where men were watching curiously.
'Water has come into Twenty-Two. God knows where are the others. I have brought these men from Tibu's gallery in our cutting; making connection through the north side of the gallery. Take us to the cage, said Janki Meah. At the pit-bank of Twenty-Two, some thousand people clamoured and wept and shouted. One hundred men one thousand men had been drowned in the cutting.
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