“What do you mean to do?” asked Charley. “Upon my word, I’m all turned around myself.”
“I’ll show you,” replied Dick. “First we want to get back where we started out. It’s easy enough to do that.”
“I couldn’t do it,” said Clara. “I’ll own up that’s what I’ve been trying to do for the last half hour, but I just seemed to lead you round and round in a circle.”
“I’ll fix it,” said Dick, confidently. “Come this way.”
He started off in directly the opposite direction to that which they had been following.
“Oh, I see!” cried Clara. “I understand now. You are going toward the light.”
“Exactly,” replied Dick. “The light comes down through that hole in the roof and the underground river and the lake are right there and that’s where we have got to look for the trail.”
“I saw no trail,” said Charley. “I looked for that when we started out.”
“It’s there and we’ll find it. Doctor Dan has given me some good pointers on trails. Trust an Indian for that. He’ll find a footprint where a white man could see nothing. We shall soon be back at the lake and then I’ll show you how well I’ve learned my lesson.”
In a short time Dick brought up at the lake and soon found the spot where he had encountered Clara.