“By Jove! There is something here!” cried Dick. The next moment the report of his gun sounded like a clap of thunder in the cave.
[CHAPTER XVIII]
BACK IN CAMP
“Did you hit him?”
“What was it?”
“Say, we’d better get out of this!”
Tom, Jack and Bert thus cried in turn. As for Dick he said nothing, and he did nothing, for he could not see to run in the darkness of the cave, and the rush of air, following the shot from his gun, had put out the match Tom was holding up.
“Show a light there,” called the marksman. “I think I plugged him all right.”
Tom struck another match and held it high above his head. Dick stood his ground, and Bert and Jack, who had started to run, came back to the mouth of the cave.