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`` By Jove , Jim , '' he said , `` that cage story is too thin . It worked all right up to ten o'clock , for Mackay and Fair both came down and spent a good quarter of an hour in the end of the drift and kept tapping around with their hammers . I was mean enough to watch them on the sly and saw them both taking samples . If you keep awake , you will see John Mackay down here again by six o'clock in the morning , and you may make up your mind not to see any more daylight for three days or a week to come ; that is , if the drift keeps on improving . '' `` I believe it , Jack , '' said Sedgwick ; `` did you notice that the last blast left nearly the whole face of the drift in ore ? Then , did you notice as we met the car coming out , it had long drills in it , and the shift boss was following it up close ? No blasting will be done to-night , but the drillings will be saved for assay , and I tell you the plan is that we shall tell no tales out of school .