"I don't know. I heard some one whisper, and it wasn't in English, either. Be careful."
The passageway had curved abruptly, going off in another direction, but in the intense darkness they did not notice this.
Suddenly Dan touched his friend's arm.
"The light in the King's Chamber has gone."
"Call out."
"No, no. We will turn and go back. We were foolish to try a thing of this sort."
Keeping close together, the boys began crawling rapidly. All at once Dan stopped.
"We surely should have reached the King's Chamber before this," he declared.
"Maybe we have gone on past it?"
"I think not. We should have recognized the place had we passed through it."