Part 65 (2/2)
”I felt sure that those tere in this place, and I went on farther into the darkness till I kicked against so and fell down”
”Out here and stunned yourself”
”No, no; in there! I'd got up and picked upseeain”
Jem squeezed Don's arm, for they both felt ive you a crack on the head?” said a sailor
Don's heart sank again
”Nonsense!” said his old friend, the boatswain ”Foul air He ered out and fallen down insensible”
Jeripped Don's arm with painful force here
”How do you feel? Can you walk?”
Raht his aret you down to the boat as soon as we can walk, if you are able If you can't, we must carry you”
”But theinning to breathe freely ”Think they're in yonder, mate?”
”I--I think so,” said Ramsden faintly ”You had better search”
”What! A place full of foul air?” said the boatswain, greatly to Don's relief ”Absurd! If Ramsden could not live in there, how could the escaped et hihting tools? What yer done with theesticulation, and turned to Jem, who had the pistols and cutlass in his hand and waistbelt, and felt as if he should like to hurl them away
”He must have dropped theet thee as a man volunteered, but the boatswain hesitated
”No,” he said, to Don's great relief; ”I can't afford to run risks for the sake of a pair of pistols”
”Letto send o myself,” said the boatswain bluntly ”Come on down”
The boatswain led the way, and Rao in the cavern to fetch the pistolsso as to be last, and as soon as the party had disappeared over the shelf he gave a glance after them, and turned sharply
”Foul air won't hurt ain the pistols and cutlass, so as to have the laugh of his messmates when they returned on board
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
ANOTHER ALARM
”It's all over,” thought Don, as the man came on, with discovery inevitable if he continued at his present rate They were about fifty feet from the entrance, and they felt that if they ed by the same impulse, they stood fast, save that Jem doubled his fist and drew back his arm ready to strike