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I begin to believe Billings has given up his thoughts of revenge. The only strange thing is that Miller's boy has disappeared, and his father can think of no reason why he should run away." "Farley's won't be the loser if he never comes back," Joe replied. "That boy is a bad one, an' it wouldn't take much to make me believe he an' Billings are firm friends." "There is no necessity of talking about him; we are not afraid of boys. The question is whether we are warranted in guarding the lower level much longer." "That's for you to say, sir. We had rather be at our regular work." "Well, we'll try it a day or two more. Perhaps you'd better break through into the old drift, and then we shall know whether it is possible for evil-disposed persons to find a hiding place there." This closed the interview so far as Mr. Wright was concerned, and on his leaving the house the others discussed the work to be done the following day; but Skip Miller's disappearance had little place in the conversation. Bill mourned the loss of the plan, which was supposed to be the only guide to the old mine, but Joe did not think it was of such very great importance. "All we care to know is whether the air's foul, an', of course, the best way is to finish the tunnel which came so near finishin' us. That work can be done without any guide." "But we may want to follow up the drift, which will be a long job if we have to go on blindly." "There's no use fussin' over what can't be helped. The paper got trampled into the dirt, most likely, otherwise them as have been lookin' would 'a found it before this." "I don't feel like givin' over the search so easy; s'pose we four have a reg'lar hunt in the morning?" "Sam and I will go now," Fred said. "We shall feel better for a little exercise after being cooped up in the house so long." "Very well. Take a turn at it this afternoon, an' if you don't succeed Joe an' I'll try to-night." The boys set off without delay, but they were a long while reaching the slope, for every person on the street thought it necessary to congratulate them upon having escaped a terrible death, and at the breaker Donovan delayed the search by making minute inquiries as to the condition of affairs in the drift just prior to the accident. "Any one would think from all these questions that you believed somebody was responsible for the trouble," Sam said with a laugh. "P'rhaps I do. Billings an' Skip Miller
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