“Another opening, sir. I never saw this before.”
“What does it look like?”
“Long passage, sir.”
“Well, let’s go down it and see where it leads to.”
The sergeant turned down the dark opening, and led the way along it with his gleaming light for a good ten minutes, and then he stopped.
“Well,” said Dick, “why don’t you go on?”
“Don’t seem to lead anywhere, sir, as I see.”
“It must lead somewhere or come to an end. Go on.”
Stubbs trimmed his lamp a little and went on once more, very cautiously, for fear of pitfalls; but at the end of another ten minutes the passage was precisely the same.
“Go on, sir?”