PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

Chapter	Page
I. Securing a Job Under Difficulties	[7]
II. Handling the Red Ore	[18]
III. Two Thousand Feet Under Ground	[32]
IV. Steve Shoots the Chutes	[42]
V. The "Missed Hole"	[49]
VI. In the Powder-Wrecked Drift	[61]
VII. "Is Anyone Alive in There?"	[70]
VIII. Bob Makes Good His Word	[79]
IX. Young Gladiators Meet	[89]
X. In a New Job	[97]
XI. Rush Makes a Discovery	[106]
XII. The Boys Expose a Plot	[115]
XIII. Straightening the Crooked Ones	[126]
XIV. Laying the Trap	[137]
XV. Borne Skyward on a Skip	[147]
XVI. What Was Found in the Shaft	[158]
XVII. Their First Promotion	[171]
XVIII. The Visit of the Officials	[182]
XIX. Facing a Great Peril	[193]
XX. Into a Black Gulf	[202]
XXI. The Search for the Missing Boy	[209]
XXII. When the Waters Closed Over Him	[215]
XXIII. A Thousand Feet of Ladders	[226]
XXIV. Conclusion	[242]

The Iron Boys in the Mines

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