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The jottings on the fourth day show the increase of the delirium Sometimes his mind appears to be quite clear, then it wanders to queer fancies

"Last cigar gone Got sick fro asleep while working Twenty-nine feet done--surely reach the end to-morrow Another cave-in just after I crawled out from hed and said it served a highgrader right

"Have telegraphed for help Can't ive up the cli breakfast at the Silver Dollar--steak and h pipe along floor of tunnel Why don't the operator stay on his job? I tap an to talk to hi sort of way So in jerky half-coherent phrases, soued with Peale that he had better let him out But even in his delirious condition he stuck to his work in the tunnel, though he was scarce able to drag hihtheaded intervals became more frequent In one of these it occurred to hirade ore and he filled his pockets with saood deal of tiain that the business of highgrading was justified by the conditions under which the hts They caical connection It beca through the tunnel was a telegraph wire by means of which he could communicate with the outside world if the operator would only stay on duty But his interest in the estive of his condition that when Moya's answer came to his seven taps he took it quite as a matter of course

"The son of a Greaser is back on the job at last," he said aloud without the least exciteet that breakfast I ordered"

He crawled back to the foot of the shaft in a childish, absurd confidence that the food he craved would soon be sent down to hiht sleep where he lost himself in fancies that voiced themselves in incoherent snatches of talk