"It sure looks like it, lad."
"If that's the case, we'll have to go back!" came from Roger. He looked around them and his face paled a trifle. "Oh, do you think we are lost?"
"If we are not, we are next door to it," was Abe Blower's serious answer.
CHAPTER XXIV
SEARCHING FOR THE LANDSLIDE MINE
Lost underground!
It was a terrible condition of affairs to contemplate, and for an instant Dave's heart almost stopped beating and something like a chill swept down his backbone. What if they should be unable to find their way out of the rocky cave?
"We'll have to go back," said Abe Blower, in a low voice, after a pause, in which the three of the party had gazed around at the walls of the cavern and at each other. "An' we don't want to lose no time nuther," added the old miner.
"No, for the others will be wondering what has become of us," put in Roger.