Part 24 (1/2)
”The world has forgotten me ere this,” replied Mr Balfour, with a faint s very ithout me
Whether it has or has not I feel that I am shortly to rejoin my dear one”
”How did it happen? Ithe subject ”Was it an accident?”
”It may have been, but I believe not Dressed in wolf skins, I was creeping up on a so, when I was shot by soaed to crawl ho alone, the ringing ofof either hts and to sound a call for aid on my violin that I hoped would be heard and understood”
”It was fortunate for s,” said Cabot, ”for I should certainly have re over the wire if it had not been for the coht and music
But tell me, sir, why have you , as well as to inspire terror in the es and keep them at a respectful distance from this place”
”Have they ever troubled you?”
”At first they were inclined to, but not of late years”
”Not of late years! Why, sir, how many years have you dwelt in this place?”
”A little more than five”
”Five years alone and cut off from the world! I should think you would feel like a prisoner shut in a dungeon”
”No, for I have led the life of my own choice, and it has been full of active interests I have had to hunt, trap, and fish for s, and have been able to relievethe improvident natives I have busied myself with electrical experi country for a hundred miles on all sides”
”Have you discovered any indications of ineer, recalling his previous thought on this subject
”Quite a nue of cliffs is so largely composed of red hematite as to form one of the richest ore beds in the world”
CHAPTER XXVIII
CABOT IS LEFT ALONE
Deeply interested and affected as Cabot had been by the electrician's story, his exciteet everything else
”Does the ore shohere about here?” he asked eagerly
”Yes Lift one of the skins hanging against the wall and you will find it It is better, though, in the lower portions of the inner cavern, for the deeper you go the richer it gets”
In anotherbits of rock from the nearest wall, and then he must need explore those of the storeroom, where, on a bank of the subterranean stream, he found ore as rich as any he had ever seen, even inwith hands and pockets full of speci for which I came to Labrador, but have thus far failed to find Of course I have discovered plenty of indications, for the whole country is full of iron, but nowhere else have I found it in quantity or of a quality that would pay to work Here you have both, and close to a navigable ay”
”On which the largest shi+ps may moor to the very cliffs,” added Mr
Balfour
”It ratulate you, sir”
”My dear lad, I don't want it! I am an electrician, not a miner Even if I were inclined to work it, which I am not, I should not be permitted to do so, for my earthly interests are very nearly ended