He Was Trapped—Two Miles Below the Earth

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Impossible! What sort of creatures would they be, that could live two miles beneath the surface of the earth?
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"Impossible! What sort of creatures would they be, that could live two miles beneath the surface of the earth? Surely, Asher, you are joking!" A great oil field had gone dry—and Asher, trapped far under the earth among the revolting Petrolia, learns why. R. Briggs Johns, mighty power back of Stan-America Oil Corporation, looked at Blaine Asher closely, expecting to see the chief geologist and scientist of the company laugh. But Blaine Asher did not laugh. Serious, his rather thin face grave as he leaned his tall, muscular body above a torsion machine he was adjusting, there was nothing to indicate he had the faintest idea of a joke.