the drills and gads, and Boers and
Kaffirs to carry back the debris; that the rock was most favorable, and
rapid progress was made, averaging a little over ten feet per day; that
he offered bribes and bounties to the shift that should make most
progress; and that he had tapped the ledge and cross-cut it in four
months, "because," he added naively, "we lost all reckonin' o' time, 'nd
I'm afeerd we worked of er Sunday sometimes;" that the ore was quite up
to the average, or a little better than what was on the dump; that so
soon as the vein was struck he had started drifts up and down the ledge
and an upraise, and had, when he left, probably 1,000 tons of ore on the
dump, and that as the mine was further opened the daily output was
steadily increasing. He had, moreover, got the mill site graded, and the
wall that the battery was to be set in front of, built, comfortable
quarters put up, and the road through the canon made so that it would be
good for heavy teams.

When he heard that Sedgwick had sent some heavy wagons, yokes, harness
and chains he was glad, saying: "I war afeerd you'd forget it," and at
once went about to select the stock and drivers for those wagons.

After they had waited eight days, the "Pallas" made the port.

Captain McGregor reported a prosperous voyage, and the next day the
discharging of cargo into lighters began and was rushed with all speed.
As soon as the wagons were landed, the work of setting them up began, and
the training of the teams was likewise inaugurated.

The first full loads were started for the mine in a week. The heavy
machinery was loaded on the imported wagons, native conveyances were
secured for the other freight, and in fourteen days everything was in
transit.

In the meantime another mail had arrived from England, bringing letters
from Grace to Sedgwick. One had news of special interest. It told that
the confidence of Mrs. Hazleton had been partly gained; that she had
learned much of the lady's life; how she was left an orphan at thirteen
in New Jersey; how at seventeen when at school she had run away and
married a wild youth; how they left at once for the West; how the wild
boy settled down, and with a few hundred dollars which he had when they
were married he had made a few thousand and was doing well when he
suddenly sickened and died; how then his relatives came forward and made
a contest for his property, setting up that she had never been married;
that the showing w