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 The chief gave place to him. Keighley ordered: "Down yuh go, now."

Cripps and "Shine," at one angle of the hatch, and Moore and his pipeman, diagonally opposite, commanded the deck below with two solid streams that drove the animals into shelter among the cages, while Keighley and his squad, with axes and ladder straps, went down to fasten their six-inch line and cut an opening for the pipe in the hatch. The smoke blew up in a thick belch as the men stripped off the tarpaulin. "That'll keep Mr. Bear busy," the chief said.

"Mr. Doherty, too," "Shine" volunteered.

The chief looked at him. "Who's this Doherty anyway?"

"Shine" kept his eyes on the pipe.