"Burke's hurt, and they'll need your car to carry him out in.

What's the signal for the cage ?" The boy stood silent, his mouth wide open, staring at him stupidly.
"Do you hear, you lunk-head?
I 'm after a doctor; how do you signal the cage ?" "Twa yanks on the cord, meester," was the grudging reply.

"Wha was ye, onyhow ?" But Winston, unheeding the question, was already off, his only thought the necessity of immediately attaining the surface in safety, ahead of the spreading of an alarm.
The cage shot speedily upward through the intense darkness, past the deserted forty-foot gallery, and emerged into the gray light of dawn flooding the shafthouse.

Blinking from those long hours passed in the darkness below, Winston distinguished dimly a number of strange figures grouped before him.

An instant he paused in uncertainty, his hand shading his eyes; then, as he stepped almost blindly forward he came suddenly face to face with Biff Farnham.