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First to wake them, and subsequent to inform them, all so wild and breathless as she was, what had brought her there, had been troubles but they no sooner understood her than their spirits were on fire like hers. One particular of the males was in a drunken slumber, but on his comrade’s shouting to him that a man had fallen down the Old Hell Shaft, he started out to a pool of dirty water, place his head in it, and came back sober. And following standing for a moment to see her operating, wringing her hands as she ran,...