“See here! You can’t put this off on me,” said the lieutenant fiercely. “Just the same, I don’t think he’s hurt very much.” He bent over and took a look at Dave. “He’s breathing all right.”
“Well, I’m glad of that!” returned the money lender’s son, with a sigh of relief.
While he was speaking Lieutenant Gebauer had picked up the notebook which had again fallen between the rocks, and placed it in his pocket.
“What’s that?” demanded Nat.
“I don’t know. I’ll have to examine it when we get to the light. Here, Nat, take hold of him.”
“What are you going to do.”
“Let us place him in that opening yonder. There is no use of leaving him out here in the open.”
“But he might drop down into the mine if we place him too near one of the shafts,” remonstrated Nat. He was beginning to get a little frightened over what had been done.
“What do we care if he does drop down?” answered the other brutally. “Come on, before he comes to his senses.”
“I don’t want to go too far into this,” whined Nat. He was feeling more and more uncomfortable.