But in that event, would he not have waited for his return, to tell him of the accident?
Or would he not have proceeded down to the Sampler to bring the news if he had not cared to remain at the tunnel opening?
However, it was a chance, and Fairchild took it.

Once more he crawled through the hole that he had made in the cave-in and sought the outward world.

Then he hurried down Kentucky Gulch and to the Sampler.

But Harry had not been there.

He went through town, asking questions, striving his best to shield his anxiety, cloaking his queries under the cover of cursory remarks.
Harry had not been seen.