midnight
Late that night a large enough hole had been made to move the wounded men out . Tad was the first to enter , and the first man to be brought out was Williams . Tad picked him up in his great strong arms and tenderly carried him to the cabin . By midnight the broken leg was dressed and the cuts and bruises bandaged . Tad proved as good a nurse as he was a miner . As he worked over Williams a great pity filled his heart , for Tad knew only too well that he had been anything but a happy man . The tunnel had been driven very rapidly without proper trussing , and it seemed to Tad that the entire dyke must have been shaken by the blasts that had caused Mr. Thornton 's death years before .