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The whistles screamed. The bells clanged. Smoke poured from the stacks of the double-header, and the freshening sun, a short time later, glinted upon the white-splotched equipment, as the great auger followed by its lesser allies, bored into the mass of snow at Bander Cut. Hours of backing and filling, of retreats and attacks, hours in which there came, time after time, the opportunity to quit.
In their painted, plumed, bedizened immobility they appeared inhuman, or perhaps less than human the personifications of Africa's blind and vivid soul, the full efflorescence of this gloomy, white-splotched clearing. They raised their heads as a seventh, crowned and painted as they were, stood forth from a curtain of vines.
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