“Didn’t it have your name on?”
“Why, of course! I see it all now! Colonel Mendix had an easy job finding out who I was! What a fool I was to leave the knife lying there!”
“Never mind; it can’t be helped now, Olly, so let us make the best of it. Here, I have the stick ready.”
Gus handed back the stick. Oliver lit another match and applied it to the split end. It was rather damp, but at last caught fire.
“There! that is better than nothing!” declared the stout youth. “It is bad enough to be down here, without being in the dark. Now let us look around and see what the chances for escape are.”
Oliver did not reply. He was looking at a name that was cut on the stick. The name was James Barr.
CHAPTER XXXI.
SEEKING DELIVERANCE.
As will doubtless be remembered, James Barr was the name of the surveyor who had been sent by Mr. Bright to assist Colonel Mendix in locating the Aurora mine.