[The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper]@TWC D-Link book
The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER XII
11/26

Then we 'll be ready to start.

I 'm not even going to dignify this letter by replying to it.
And for one principal reason--" he added--"that I think the Rodaines have something to do with it." '"Ow so ?" "I don't know.

It's only a conjecture; I guess the connection comes from the fact that Squint put a good valuation on the mine this morning in court.

And if it is any of his doings--then the best thing in the world is to forget it.

I 'll be ready in a moment." An hour later they entered the mouth of the Blue Poppy tunnel, once more to start the engines and to resume the pumping, meanwhile struggling back and forth with timbers from the mountain side, as they began the task of rehabilitating the tunnel where it had caved in just beyond the shaft.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books