"That'll hold them for a while!"
"How long?" Joe reminded him. "They have us trapped, Frank. We can't go back. They'll starve us out."
"We won't give up without a fight."
There was a tremendous uproar out in the cave. The men were talking loudly and their voices were intensified by the tumultuous echoes of the place.
"Follow them in!" some one shouted. But Gus snarled:
"We can't. They're armed."
"Well," said Frank quietly, "we have enough bullets to keep them back for a while, at any rate."
"They'll get us, in the long run."
"I suppose so."
Then the Hardy boys heard the voice of the man called Sam. He came into the cave, shouting: