We 've been blessed with luck already.

Come 'ere." He led the way, the man and woman following him.

In the stope the Cornishman crawled carefully to the staging, and standing on tiptoes, pressed his ear against the vein above him.

Then he withdrew and nodded sagely.
"That's what it is!" came his announcement at last.

"You can 'ear it!" "But what ?" "Get up there and lay your ear against that vein.