“Who is down there?” came the cry.
“Two boys,” answered Andy. “We want somebody to help us get out of this hole.”
“Oh, that’s it,” said the person at the top of the hole. “Well, maybe, I can do the trick. I happen to have a long rope with me.”
Something in the voice of the speaker struck Pepper as familiar. He strained his eyes, and then saw that the person who had spoken was the strange lad, Bert Field.
CHAPTER XXV
BERT FIELD’S REVELATION
“Hello there, Bert Field!”
“Hello yourself,” answered the lad at the top of the opening, in surprise. “Who are you?”
“I am one of the Putnam Hall cadets, Pepper Ditmore.”
“Oh, one of the fellows I met at the church?”
“Yes. I have a friend with me, Andy Snow. Can you help us to get out of here?”