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By MORLEY ROBERTS.

(Copyright, 1899, by Morley Roberts.)

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found the western end, which Was clay bott red, hardest ti With, and there th Vv doubled the s and struts first and drove some bard

wood wedges in, and bh cked with heavy by 10 that

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the inward, green tT came troma ming near the summit. the uprights showed no sign of buc- kling at first was the deadliest sign of all, for where the cement bottom was it Was necessary io put in square blocks betwixt each huge standard. then the groaning was mere horrid. new strains were established, the mass of timbers became more organic and Day by day the for- sent tribute to the devouring dragon of the underhill, and soon was almost impossible to see the clay save upon the bottom. Yet here and there it sqreezed out between close set

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Keeley or his brother patrolled the tun- |

which was now like a leaking ship They doubled their redoubled care and watched the massy framework per: petually. The roof was treble timbers. each 12 inches square. pinned it again and set angled struts ina complex latticework against the doubled walls. And the flat floor of ithe tunnel became convex.

They saw it, and for a day assured

each other thrt it was not so But at

night they set a loag straight edge across the floor and leveied it. It tonched the middie. and, nailing both ends to » frame, they left it.

vy the early dawn the middle of ‘the edge was 144 inches sunk in | The foreman said this was the end of it. But Keeley sent for more

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and beat it down with sledges' Along the sides he set timbers lengthways, and on them three more struts against the roof. And he saw the floor was level.

But the roof was convex, buiging downward. ‘“‘We've contractors. have made nothing

bold’’—

done ull we can,’’ said the “Tf it holds now, we sball And if it doesa’t

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nel was to stand a nionth before acc: ance.

They went to their tents and played poker to pass the time. But, though they were now idle and their men dis- charged, the hill was busy.

The next day cards were a weariness. They paced the groaning hole from dawn to eve. Men going east or w st, who had heard of the mud tunnel, looked in, and the strange noises scared some of them. On Sunday half the men from the contractors next above them came to view it. The end of the track

pete

was now but five miles away, and some |

of the track layers came too. offered bets against its standing. came down and shook his head as he rode back.

‘**I give it a week,” he said.

But in less than a week Keeley Hol- dredge came up to him.

‘*Yon’ll have to makea cut of it, after all,’’ he said.

‘Can you take on the job?’’ asked Ross.

‘*‘We're going over to the lakes, sir,” answered Holdredge. ‘‘I’vehad a letter from Andy Onderdonk. It was a gam- ble, and the cards were against as.”

They shook hands and parted.

The tunnel’s chorus was now porten- tous. It shrieked and cried and set a man’s teeth on edge with horrible grat- ing noises. The steps on which the up- rights stood were crushed through; each stancdard’s heavy heel was set in mere wood fiber, as soft, it seemed, as a hank of coir yarns. And where the side thrusts were greatest the short blocks splinter- ed. The ceiling was now a downward hanging arch. The bulging was very ob- vious. And by no trick of forcing the imagination could the eye behold a level tlocr. Little shakes and splinters rose on it, as when a man bends a lath to break- ing. And every hour or so came a sound like a gunshot, when some drier, over- wrought beam gave way utterly. Thongh its sound brought seeming si- lence in a moment more the cries of the strained wood were greater and more terrible.

I myself, who write this, was then at work fur another contractor two miles up the pass, and one hot Sunday in Au-

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gust. when wy mates were lying in their tents. | went to view the tunnel. And, thougi | was afraid, | walked through its whole dark burrow. It was

not the first time | had done it, but it was the last.

There was something uncanny in the groaning of the wood, something awe inspiring. When half way through in the intensest darkness, terror got hold of me, and my hair bristled. Wishing to run, I could not, and I sweated ice as I went. In the daylight at the west end I saw the hanging roof. It seemed to move; long splinters pointed more and more perpendicularly, and the side standards bent like bows. I walked on a curve of floor timbers driven upward by the rising clay. Here and there were jagged points; beams split and opened, ragged with tough fiber. In the hands of the mountain the mightiest trees were raatch wood.

Aud outside by their tent I saw the Ho'dredges loading up a pack pony, while two other little cayuses stood ready saddled. I gave them good day, and they nodded—not uncheerfully, as I thought. And when the pony’'s load was fixed up I followed them at a little distance as they took their last walk to the tunnel’s mouth, which was now shapeless and distorted. Two great rafters had freed their ends and point- ed northwest and southwest. The sill was burst and the under clay rose in a

| strange mud flower. From the tunnel’s

For in the contract the finished trn- |

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depth came sounds which were half musical, half discordant, like the loud ery of breaking harp strings.

“It’s settling now,’’ said Keeley Holdredge as he took his brother’s arm.

And visibly, though with a peculiar slowness, as if of conscicus power, the jaws of the tunnel were being forced The riven roofing fringed its jagged mouth like vellow fangs, stained blue in places, until it seemed some living monster writhing in agony under a most intolerable weight. But the sounds of the deeper tunnel were muf- fied. We knew the clay was bursting in at a thousand places. Perhaps even now the long work of gravity was done there. One groan burst out of the «los- ing mouth, and then we heard the whistle of a driven wind hiss through the ragged teeth. But with that came a fall of gravel from the higher hill, and when the dust was dissipated th tunnel was seen no more.

It might have been my imagination, but as the brothers turned away it seemed to me that a great.weight was off their minds.

I met old Gordon a mile up the roag and stopped him.

“The mud.tunnel’s down, Mr. Gor don,’’ I said. And he whistled.

‘Did you see the Holdredges, man ?” he asked.

I nodded.

“‘And what did they say?”

“Oh, just ‘Dash iv.” ”’ said L they’ve gone away whistling were good men to work for.’’

‘You ought to know,’’ cried Gordon grinning, ‘‘for, you know, they fired you!”’

But if I did get the sack at the mud tunnel it was only for having too much tosay. AndI bore the Holdredges na malice.

“And They

An Example. ‘Some of the greatest men in the world have met defeat in their dearest ambitions,’ remarked the statesman.

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THE DalLY EXAMINER, ChHARLOTTETUWN, DECEMBER 8, 1899

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