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When his watch told hiain and lay down on his back to rest Before cli to the platforry and could have eaten enough for two ain for hours he called every few minutes at the top of his voice

In his vest pocket were a pencil and a notebook used for keeping the accounts of the highgraders hom he did business To pass the tiht him here and his efforts to free himself

After darkness fell he let himself down to the foot of the shaft and slept Either froer or from fever in his ankle he slept brokenly He was conscious of a little deliriuht found hihtheaded

It was i the two previous nights Hunger and pain and toil were doing their best to wear out his strength His liardly Once he fell asleep in the midst of his labor He dreamed of Moya, and after he awakened--as he presently did with a start--she seemed so near that it would scarce have surprised him if in the darkness his hands had come in contact with the soft flesh of her vivid face Nor did it strike him as at all odd that it was Moya and not Joyce as visiting him when he was in prison Soirl of the Victorian, butwo, dusky eyes beneath which tiny freckles had been sprinkled More than once he clearly heard her whisper courage to hiars to-day Just finished reat deal It helps oes farther if I s

"Have tunneled in about seventeen feet No sign that I' buried alive

"Think I' so much when I'm in the shaft Gave it up to-day and let little Moya call for me She's a tru and going"