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1. The Company avoids public investigation, dismisses Dansaert, and orders surveillance while Deneulin works to divert the canal.
2. Zacharie detects answering taps at Réquillart, and Négrel starts three tunnels toward the trapped miners.
3. Progress slows through hard coal and dangerous heat until an explosion kills Zacharie and injures four rescuers.
4. Maheude resumes waiting for Catherine, while renewed digging approaches the prisoners after their signals cease.
5. The Grégoires visit the ruins and bring gifts to Maheude’s house, where Cécile remains alone with Bonnemort.
6. Her parents discover Cécile strangled; Madame Hennebeau mourns with Négrel, while her husband finds private relief in the broken marriage plans.

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Maheude returns to the rescue site after accompanying Zacharie’s remains. Her repeated waiting connects the rescue effort with the family’s accumulating losses.

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