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Only the sense of falling told him that he was going down, down, to the seven-hundred-foot level, and then he remembered that he had no candle. The cage came to a halt, and he fumbled for the guard bar, lifted it, and stepped out. Straight ahead of him he saw a dim glow of light.
"Well, then, at the same angle, we would have to drift less than seventy feet on the seven-hundred-foot level to cut it again, and at the eight-hundred-foot we'd just about have it at the foot of the shaft. Well, I'm sinking, regardless of expense." "It might be right, boy, it might be right," Bill said, thoughtfully scowling at the plans, and going over the figures of the dip.
It all gave him an immense and satisfactory warmth of home-coming, and the Croix d'Or, with its steadfast, friendly little colony, was home in truth! "We're in sixty feet on the seven-hundred-foot," Bill grinned, with the air of one giving a pleasant surprise, "and say, boy, we've hit the edge of ore. You were all right.
By six o'clock in the evening he reported that soundings showed that the map had not been checked up, and that the shaft was seven hundred and ten feet deep, and that they would commence a drift on the seven-hundred-foot mark the next day. Dick was awakened at an early hour, and found Bill missing.
"And thirty feet, about, would bring us to the seven-hundred-foot mark?" "Yes." "Then I'll tell you what I want to do: I want you to shift the crew so that there is a day and a night shift. The rebuilding of the dam can be put off for a while, except for such work as the millmen are agreeable to take on. I want to sink! I don't want to waste any time about it.
I want to go down just as fast as it can be done, and when we get to the seven-hundred-foot, one gang must start to drift for the green lead, and the others must keep going down." He was almost knocked over the desk by a rousing, enthusiastic slap on the back. "Now you're my old pardner again!" Bill shouted.
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