"Hello, there!" he called.
"What do you want?" came the answer.
"I am lost."
"Go find yourself, then. Don't bother me."
Steve did not propose to let it go at that. He ran forward to where the miner was about to descend a ladder to the lower level.
"Won't you please help me, sir. I am in a fix."
"Well, what do you want?" demanded the miner in a surly tone, pausing a few rungs down the ladder.
"I am looking for the Spooner contract. Will you please direct me to it?"
"Follow this level around to the left until you come to three drifts. Take the middle one to the end, and then go down the ladder you will find there."