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another brought blood on Chukchi Frank's brow, others 

 cut Lovermg in the cheek and chin and then one struck 

 him in the left eye, between the nose and the pupil. He 

 was blinded for a few minutes and the blood suffused 

 the white of his eye, but presently he continued the 

 work. Elting examined the wounded eye and said that 

 it was impossible to see if the particle of steel had stayed 

 in the cut or had bounded out. If it had come out again 

 Lovering would be none the worse, but if it remained he 

 would infalUbly lose the eye. To probe would only 

 aggravate the matter. Only a powerful magnet could 

 remove the foreign body, and one was not available 

 short of Seattle or San Francisco. It was futile to try to 

 rush Lovering to either of these places, for two days 

 would settle the question and we could not reach either 

 city at the quickest in less than two or three weeks. We 

 took pains to conceal our feelings from Lovering, who 

 had not been told all this, but it depressed us greatly. 

 Fortunately he recovered completely. 



Born was caught in the toils of the law. We heard 

 all about it from the authority, Judge Wood, after our 

 night work was over. When I walked to the "Alaska" 

 to borrow the final hack-saw blade, the judge came out 

 of his store to tell me that the other fellows were up in 

 his Uving apartments above the trading room. So after 

 Kleinschmidt and I had finished our stunt, we went 

 there. 



In a cosy, warm room the old gentleman set out 

 whisky and cigars and welcomed Kleinschmidt with us. 

 After general talk Kleinschmidt said he understood Bom 

 was liable for trouble. 



"I had not intended to say anything about that mat- 

 ter in the present circumstances," replied the Judge, 



