Part 63 (1/2)
”You can hear a self-satisfied fool talking,” said the boatswain, ill-humouredly
”So can Mr Jones,” muttered the man ”Hear you That's what I can hear”
”What are youabout?”
”I think I can hear 'eive up It'll be the worse for you if you don't”
Don's hand tightened on his co in a bent attitude, listening
There was nothing to be heard but the whisperings and gurglings, and then they saw hiave another jerk, but he suffered himself to be drawn farther and farther into the cave, till they must have been quite two hundred yards froht line which it had forht of the entrance, but could see the shadow of their ene wall of the place, dohich the water seelass
All at once Don, as he crept back, felt his left foot, instead of encountering the so down, and as he quickly withdrew it and felt nearer to hireat crack crossing the floor diagonally
As he paused, he felt that it ht be a ”fault” of a few inches in width or depth, or a vast chasht down into the bowels of the mountain!
”There's a hole here,” he whispered to Jeripped hi, and felt over the side outward and doard; and, just as he was co to the conclusion that the place was terribly deep, and a shudder at the danger was running through him, he found that he could touch botto hiht be, when a peculiar strangling sensation attacked hi he felt was Je his whisper,--
”Hold on, lad What's theway for a fewOnly a sudden giddiness”
Jehtly, and they stood listening, for the shadow cast faintly on the walls was
”I'!”
”All right, sir Join you as soon as I've got ht,” shouted the boatswain, and then there was a loud rustling sound, followed by the words faintly heard, ”Look sharp It's of no use fooling there”
Don could hear Ra on; and , acco headache, the lad stole cautiously back to where he could look round and see their approaching eneht
To his intense surprise he found the ; but as he watched, Raesticulation, turned sharply and ca piece of rock, stu two or three yards on before hi noise
What followed riveted Don to the spot
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
GOOD FOR EVIL