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!E MASTER OF THE MINE. i^3U3h

By Robert

Buchanan.

At last, with no harm done to anyone, we reached the central platform. Here the roar was deafening, and the solid rock seemed splitting with the sound.

I bent over the abyss and held down the light, using my hand as a reflector. Sure enough, several of the ladders had broken away, leaving only the precipitous shaft, steep as the"sides of a well. I strained my eyes into the darkness, and fancied I discerned far beneath something like the gleam of dashing water. Then I shouted—but my shout was drowned in the subterranean tumult.

On the central platform was a windlass, with a portion of an old,

to hold one end and gradually give

ened it securely under my armpits

It be naw use, Measter Hugh!" cried Michael Penmaur. "Dawn't 'ee go. It be gawining to your death."

But finding that I was not be persuaded. the brave fellow wrung my hand, and promised to do his best to

VSuddenly, from the darkness be-

leath, I heard a faint voice answer me. My heart stood still. Then, with an effort, I shouted again.

The faint cry was repeated. 'Who's there?' I called but the sound of my voice was blown away, and only the same faint cry came in answer.

which,

teen yards

down

me uu Men* ouiu^iiuu mm pressed them eagerly. As I did so, and death had been in- I saw, to my horror, that the breast stlTnfaneous. of his mining-shirt was saturated

Full of new horror, I lent over the with blood, that his face was ghastly platform and looked down. As I did white, and that there was on his lips so, my head went round, and I should alight stam of red. have fallen had I not clutched again' 'Are you hurt?' I said, with my at the rope which swung loose, close ^Ps close to his ear. to my hand (He inclined his head gently, and

Right under me, flooding the bot-: groaned as if in great pain. torn of the mine, roared the sea, boil-1

ing bask wards and forwards with

wiid pulsations along the shafts and him further but pressed his hand galleries through which it had brok-. again in token of sympathy, Our 'en in. A salt spume rose from it, eyes met, and his were full of some and the walls of the shaft were drip-, strange speechless sorrow. ping and dashed with clots of foam. Presently, I saw the rope descendFrom the point where I stood, the ing, weighted with a small bar of ladders had been entirely washed or iron down it came till it reached the broken away.

The roar was deafening, but I shouted with all my might. I paused and listened: no answer came.

Again I shouted again I and listened.

I seized thn rope, and, looking up to the men above me, pointed down-. i-Sward thay signalled, and seemed to tell the truth,I had had a wild sus !,i-understand. Then I secured the picion, ever since the news of the &rope a^ain under my armpits, and accident, that it might have been I" sienailing to them to give away, caused by foul play on my uncle£ "swung over the platform/ part. I knew him to be mad with

My instructions to the men had trouble, and if by^any chance hehad fc-been simple. When I tujrsred once f- «4- fl-iev Wfll'l at the rope they were to lower away, when I tugged twice they were to stop lowering, when I tugged three times sharply, they were to haul in.

The further I deccended the greater

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thewater-tm

One sat recumbent, with his head against the wall the other lav senseless, resting his head on the first one's lap. More like gnomes or wild

HAPTER XXXV—Concluded, Here I paused, and striking a lierht beasts they seemed, dripping wet, lj/b the candles on my person. My and covered with filth and ooze. But tompanions did the same. The lurid even in the faint light I recognized "ght lit up their pale, anxious faces, ithem. id shot I faint rays down into the The man sitting was my uncle, ine. I John Pendragon. The man lying "Now. then, lads!" I cried, de- senseless was John Redruth, scendhi?- the second stage of ladders. boras of these were very shaky, and I had to use great caution but I knew the way'blindfold, and all my old experience of the place stood good stead.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE TWO MEN.

'Hugh, my lad!' said my uncle,

me in stretching out his hands. I waded through the water till I came close to him. 'Ay, here I am!' I answered. 'Thank God you are living but he, is he dead or living? 'Lawd knaws was the reply. 'He ha' lain like that these two hours, and I thought the waters were rising to wash us away.'

So loud was the thunder on every side of us, that we had to shout at each other in order to be heard and even our shouts sounded like mere whispers, though we were so close together.

I took a light from my hat, and reaching out of the water, looked into the young master's face. It was ghastly pale, but there was a mark on the temple as of blood.

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disused crane. Round this I passed hjinc| upon bis heart, and discovered one of the ropes, instructing the men tiia^ it was faintly beating, 'He lives still,' I said then,

I put my

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from the rope, and proceeded to make it fast to the senseless man. As I did so, the water almost swept me away, but I held onto the rock and kept my place. When the rope was firmly secured under George Redruth's armpits, I shook him sharply,

help me nor were the others less partially recovering from his stupor, kindly and sympathetic. As they

my joy, he opened his eyes,

Then

lowered me over the platform I par-1 pointed upward, making signs that tially supported myself against the

touched the rope and

was

slimy rocks, but the next moment I ireely to understand but, lifting was suspended in air. Slowly, care-, hjrn in my arms, I placed him in pofully, they let me down, the candles gition, and then tugged three times, on my person flickering and naming,

as a

and lighting up the damp,oozy walls. There was a momentary pause At length, some distance down, my

be drawn up. He seemed

signal for the men to haul in.

then the rope

footrest on ladder, descending which light jvx]y began slowly to ascend. I reached the lowest platform of all. still waist-deep in the sea, I watched Looking up, I saw far above me, it journey upwards—lax and loose as in a narrow frame, the faces of the as a dead thing, now rasping against men. I shouted to them, but they the damp walls, now quivering and could not hear: but I waved a signal. turning round and round, till it to them, and they answered buck, passed the first platform. Far, far Then I released myself from the rope, above it, I saw the faint gleam from and prepared to loc-k around. the spot where the men were gath-

Suddenlv my foot struck against ered. At last it disappeared from something soft, like a body and sight, and I knew that, if life lasted, stooping down, light in hand, I saw George Redruth was saved two of the miners, lying among the Then I clambered on the ledge bedebrits of the broken ladder, stone side my uncle, who was still lying in dead, and dreadfully disfigured, the same position, with his head leaning back against the dripping wall.

One was Jem Tredgar, a col losses young fellow from Penzance, six feet high, and weighing over fifteen stane. The fall had smashed him

tightened, and the

I took his hands in mine, and

was

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neither the time'

the place to question

edge. I leapt down, out, drew it towards

water's wading ledge. ''Uncle," I cried, "see!

and the

-it is your

paused turn!'' And I pointed upward. He shook his head feebly. "Na, na, lad," he said. Lea' me me here to die!"

It was not to be thought of. Wildly, in dumb show, I besought him to make an effort to ascend, and at lest he assented. "I'll try, lad I'll try," he said. "But I doubt my back be broke. A lump o' rock fell on me as I were carrying young master here."

my feet touched the sea.) Supporting him in my arms as However, I made no sign, but enter-!long as possible, I saw him drawn ed the water, found myself waist- upward. When his full weight fell deep, and touching the bottom. I upon the rope his agony grew terThen I tugged twice at the rope, and rible, and I think he fainted away looked about me. for he hung in the air like a dead

The spot where I stood formed a man, with limbs

sort submerged shingle, sloping 11 watched him rise slowly, and felt

to the deeper portions of the no little

there, it surged up to my breast and 'extinguished in the lights I carried on my person—only those escaping which were stuck, miner-fashion, in my hat.

I shouted again, almost desparing (of an answer. To my amaze, avoice answered close by, and, straining

Irsaw,crouched ou ajAdge

I looked at him in surprise. To

discovered young Redruth's guilt, God alone knew what he might have done. But if he spoke the truth, and I knew well that he was not a man to lie, I had deeply wronged

crew my peril for the rope was not strov, he had actually imperilled his a strong one, and many of the out- own life to save the betrayer of his jutting points of the rock were sharp daughters honor. •enough to sever it by friction add to Gently and tenderly I secured the

that the long swing at such a'rope around him, but he moaned distance rendered it liable to break with pain as I raised him to launch or rotten stran. him upward. As the rope tightened,

As I went down, I was conscious he uttered a cry of agony. Howof tiying spray and splashing water ever, it was too late to avoid the risk, and When

I had descended some fit'- and it was the last chance.

Instead of attempting to de-

and

arms pendant,

anxiety

shaft galleries. On every side the yield beneath his weight, for he was sea rushed and boiled. As I stood

lest the rope should

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a heavy man, compared to whom George Redruth was a very feather. However, the rope stood the test, and he was drawn safely up the abyss. After a long interval, during which I waited in sickening terror, with the waters thundering and the rocks quaking around me^ the rope again descended. I seized it, •toured it under my armpits, and

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giving the signal, was drawn upward. On reaching the bottom platform, I rested a moment, then' I signalled again, and rose once moire into the air. By this time the lights in my hat were extinguished, and I was in total darkness but as I gained the middle platform, half a dozen hands were stretched out to grasp me, till, tottering and trembling, I stood upon my feet.

Wildly and joyfully the men surrounded me, almost kissing me in their rapture at my reappearance. I looked around for George Redruth. He had recovered from his faintness, they said, and had been helped bytwo of the men up to the mouth of the mine. But lying on the platform, his head supported on Michael Penmaur's knee, was my uncle, white and bleeding, like a man whose time had come.

I knelt by his side, and took his hand. He looked into my face, and I saw that his eyes were filmy and dim, The air of the mine, even up there, was fetid and foul, and I saw that he breathed with difficulty. "Hugh, my lad!" he said faintly, "Come close—I want to whisper to 'ee. Can you forgive me?" "Forgive you?" I cried, greatly moved. "What have I to forgive "Listen, lad, and I'll tell 'ee

He paused, his head fell back, and I thought that he was gone but the next moment he recovered, and gazed into my face again. Just then the two men who had gone up with George Redruth re-descended, and one of them held out to me a flask of brandy. I took it eagerly, and held it »'my uncle's lips. He drank a little, and the spirit seemed to revive him. "Hugh! are you thar, my lad?" "Yes," I answered, fairly sobbing. "Is that your hand in mine "Yes, yes "Put down your head and listen. I be dying, sure enough, and afore I die I want to ha' your forgiveness. They would ha' hung 'ee for what I did. 'Twas I that killed the overseer!"

I had guessed as much, but when the truth came from my uncle's own lips I started in horror. He clutched my hand, as if fearing I would shrink away. •'-AvS 'Twere all on account of my Annie. my poor little lass. We met out on the cliff beyant the mine, and I taxed him wi' bringing her trouble upon her, and he said summat that made me murdering mad. He said she was a light lass, light and bad: and, Lawd forgive me! afore I had time to think, I struck at him wi' my knife! Then he staggered back. 'Twere on the very edge of the crag, and the earth seemed to give way under him, and he went o'er—screaming—he went o'er to his death, on the rocks below. That was how it cam' about. I didn't mean to kill 'un, 'twere done like a flash o' lightning—and the next marning, the next marning..... they found 'un lying, dead and bloody on the shore."

The confession came in stifled whispers, often so faint that I could scai'cely hear but other ears heard and understood it as well as mine, and when he ceased a horrified murmur passed from man to man. "May God forgive you" I murmured, still bending over him.

He did not seem to hear me. His eyes were fixed on vaeancy, his hands clutched mine like a vice. Suddenly he leant forward, drew his hand from mine, and pointed. "See there I" he cried, "'Tis hisself, all bloody, and beckoning wi' his finger. And wha' be that standing by 'un, all in white? Annie! Annie, my lass! speak to father speak to speak to father!"

The last word died in his throat, where it met the death rattle there was a struggle, a last convulsion, and he fell back like a lump of lead,

I think I too must have lost my senses for a time. The next thing I remember was standing in the open air, and staggering like a drunken man. with kindly arms supporting me on either side. I looked round, wildly. An excited crowd of women and men" surrounded me and close by, not far from the mine mouth, the dead body of my uncle lay in the' sunlight, with Annie and my aunt bending over it and bitterly weeping.

I sank down upon a rock and hid my face. When I looked up again, I saw George Redruth and his mother standing near me, and near them Madeline.

The young master seemed quite himself, though greatly agitated. 'Trelawney,' he said, 'this a sad affair. Well,. I owe you my life.'

I looked him coldly in the face his eyes sank beneath my gaze. 'No, sir,' I replied. ^iTou owe your life to the poor martyr lying yonder, and you know best what cause hehad to love you.' 'You are right,' he said. 'He begat. the task which you completed. When the outer rock gave way and the sea rushed in upon us I must have fainted, and Pendragon bore me to the place where you found me. I will take care that those he leaves behind are well rewarded.'

Again I looked him in the face'i 'Too late for that,' I answered. He returned my look with something of the old dislike. All my spirit revolted against him, thinking of the sorrow he had wrought. 'It is well for you,' I said, 'that John Pendragon did not know what I know. Had he done so, perhaps he would have left you to the mercy of the sea.' 'What do you mean?' cried Redruth, turning pale as deatt 'Ask your own heart. God has spared you and taken a better man. liad you met with your deserts, you woula bo lying in hw place.'

... Take care, Trelawney! I ow» yon my life, as I said, but—' 'You Owe me nothing,' I returned. 'I helped you as I would have helped my bitterest enemy at such a mo. ment. But now that it is done, I almost wish it were undone and you know why!'

With an impatient exclamation, he turned away. 'Come, mother! Come, Madeline! You see how this fellow hates me. I would gladly own my debt to him, but it useless. Perhaps when he is cooler he will permit me to be of service to him. If not—why, I cannot help it. Come!'

Mother and son walked slowly away, but Madeline did not stir. She remained where she had been, with her gentle eyes fixed on me.

George Redruth turned and saw her. 'Come, Madeline,' he cried we are not wanted here.' 'I think I am wanted,' she replied. 'Mr. Trelawney, shall I go?'

And as she spoke she held out both her hands to me with a loving gesture. I looked at her in wonder. Then suddenly the whole meaning of her attitude dawned upon me, and, taking her hands with a joyful cry, drew her to my bosom.

Pale and trembling, George Redruth returned and confronted us. 'Madeline, what does this mean?' 'It means that I have found my love where you found your life—in the arms of this brave man!' [To toe Continued.]

LABOR A:,!) INDUal'illES.

New York will not let Italians sweep the streets. Sheet-iron lath are being very largely used in building.

Rolling-mills are being built entirely out of steel in some places. Italy exported last year $24,000.090 worth of products to the United States.

Russia has just borrowed another $100,000,000 for the extension of railways.

Kansas farmei's planted 2,000,000 acres more of wheat last fall than year before.

The Pullman company* employ one thousand men in their large plant at St. Louis.

A big Potts town rolling-mill is to be removed to Salem, Va. It will employ seven hundred men.

Compressed air is being much mora generally used in Europe for power than in the United States.

English naval engineers admit that Americans are building faster and better ships than they.

In San Francisco last week one thousand shoemakers struck because a patent lasting machine was introduced.

Iron-mill owners and coal producers in Pennsylvania and Ohio profess to regard the coming strike with indifference.

Edison can drive a hole through hard rock with electricity at the rata of two and a half inches per minuta one and a half inches in diameter.

Crops look exceedingly well. The indications point to a yield of 118,000,000 bushels of wheat more than for last year, and wheat is worth 20 cents per bushel more than last year.

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Anew way of heating railway cars has been devised. Heat is stored in an earthenware tube, which is enclosed in an iron pipe. Steam from the locomotive forces the beat. The cars can be kept comfortably warm this way for five hours.

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