“I didn’t seem to touch bottom,” answered the acrobatic youth.
“Let us examine it, just for fun,” said Pepper, and walked back before the others could stop him. He picked up a dead tree-branch and poked it into the hole.
“I can’t touch bottom,” he declared.
“You had better come away before you fall in,” said Jack.
“Do you know what I think?” went on the Imp. “I think it is an old well.”
“A well? out here?” came from Andy, with a skeptical look.
“Look for yourself.”
Both of the others were now interested, and made an examination.
“It certainly is a well, and the top had been choked up most likely for years,” declared the young major.
“I’ll stick a tree-limb in the hole,” said Pepper. “That will prevent somebody else from going down into it.”