He lit a candle and groped his way in.

Presently he heard the sound of a pick or a drill, and wondered, what it meant.

A spark of light now appeared in the far end of the tunnel, and when he arrived there he found the man Tim at work.

Tim said: "I'm to have a job in the Golden Brier mine by and by--in a week or ten days--and I'm going to work here till then.

A man might as well be at some thing, and besides I consider that I owe you what you paid me when I was laid up." Philip said, Oh, no, he didn't owe anything; but Tim persisted, and then Philip said he had a little provision now, and would share.