“All right.”
Keeping close to the wall they made their way farther on around a sharp projecting rock, which protected them a little better.
After they had stood there several minutes, an unusually brilliant lightning flash lighted the surrounding blackness long enough for them to see that back to their right was what appeared to be the opening of a cave.
“If that’s a cave back there and we can get in it, we’ll be entirely out of the rain,” Jo Ann told herself as she wiped her rain-drenched face on her sleeve.
When at last the thunder’s reverberations were beginning to die away, she leaned over closer to Florence and said, “Did you see that cave-like opening back there on your right?”
“Yes.”
“Let’s go on back and see if it is a cave.”
“No—no. There might be a bear—or some other animal in it.”
“That’s right! I didn’t think of that.”
In a sudden lull in the rain and thunder just then a wailing sound floated to them.