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All day the search proceeded without results, and all of the next

day. The evening of this second day found Struve still not

accounted for.

CHAPTER X -- IN A TUNNEL OF THE MAL PAIS

Although Miss Kinney had assured Neill that she was glad to be

rid of him it occurred to her more than once in the course of the

day that he was taking her a little too literally. On Sunday she

did not see a glimpse of him after he left. At lunch he did not

appear, nor was he in evidence at dinner. Next morning she

learned that he had been to breakfast and had gone before she got

down. She withheld judgment till lunch, being almost certain that

he would be on hand to that meal. His absence roused her

resentment and her independence. If he didn't care to see her she

certainly did not want to see him. She was not going to sit

around and wait for him to take her down into the mine he had

promised she should see. Let him forget his appointment if he

liked. He would wait a long time before she made any more

engagements with him.