Part 16 (1/2)

'Some people have more in them than they make a show of,' she said

'Perhaps you don't understand that kind of thing, though'

Harry did not chance to have a reply ready, but he observed to Reggie afterwards that it was a pity Marjorie seeirl

'Here we are,' said Allan, pausing beneath a great overhanging archway, and speaking loudly so as to be heard above the din; for the waves and the cla

'Can we go in?' asked Gerald

'Of course we can There's no danger except in a westerly gale It's dark after you get in a little way'

The young people scrambled and slipped over the sea-weed at theon a floor of light-coloured sand, streith shells and sea-drift The sides of the cave were black and shi+ny et, and water dripped slowly frolers used to come?' asked Gerald in an awed tone

'Yes,' replied Allan; 'the schooners used to sail under the rocks on o was stored in the caves until the people caerous work sometimes, for if a storm coht which gli people were soon in total darkness The air was dahts crossed each other fro from overhead, aeird echoes which seees

'Strike a light, Hamish,' said Allan, 'and let them see what kind of a place they're in'

Theet and the black openings to what appeared to be a series of underground passages branching off from the main one

'The caves are all connected with one another,' explained Allan, 'and have separate openings to the sea Light up again, Haet a better idea'

Again there was a splutter, and the flare revealed strange shi+fting shadows a the rocks, and a circle of faces that looked unnaturally white in the surrounding darkness

Reggie's eyes were the sharpest

'Hullo!' he exclaie What can it be?'

All crowded to exaht flickered upon a pile of kegs and bales lying half-concealed behind a corner of rock

'Slers!' declared Marjorie

'Looks like it,' said Allan, as Ha utterance to ohs! and ahs! of exciteain,' said Allan, exa the barrels; 'I wonder what Pater will say to this?'

'That's the last ht flickered out

The darkness see people found the for each other's hands

'We had better make the best of our way out of this,' said Allan 'Try to ht be about Help Tricksy, Haive roped their way towards the entrance, and soon were in the strong sunshi+ne at the mouth of the caves

'Well,' said Allan, 'that was an adventure;' and they looked at one another with varying expressions