Part 19 (1/2)

”Men go git cinchona bark now Plenty get for hie T'ink yo' got lightning in yo' pocket,” and he pointed to the electric rifle

”Oh, I see!” laughed Tom ”They think I'et lots of quinine bark I'll have to stay here until all the s are shot”

The interpreter translated, and when the chief had ceased replying, Toit Plenty ht now”

”Well, it's a good thing I keeled over that dog,” Toive them”

And froetting a supply of the medicinal bark

A week passed and Professor bu the lost city than he had been at first Reluctantly, he returned to the tunnel caain,” he said

”We'll go with you soet another blast ready”

He found the debris brought down by the second one all re more of the poere under way

Many holes had been drilled in the face of the cliff of hard rock, and the charges tamped in Electric wires connected them, and they were run out to the tunnel mouth where the switch was located

This was done late one afternoon, and it was planned to set off the blast at the close of the working day, to allow all night for the fumes to be bloay by the current of air in the tunnel

”Get the ht, sor,” was the answer, and the Irish foreman went back toward the far end of the bore to tell the last shi+ft of laborers to come out so the blast could be set off

But in a little while Ti back with a queer look on his face

”What's thethe men with you?”

”Because, sor, they're not there!”

”Not in the tunnel? Why, they orking there a little while ago, when I made the last connection!”

”I know they were, but they've disappeared”

”Disappeared?”

”Yis sir There's no way out except at this end an' you didn't see thim come out: did you?”

”Then they've disappeared! That's all there is to it! Bad goin's on, thot's what it is, sor! Bad!” and Tihtened Indians