Peggy grinned. “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be all right. It’s you two who’re going into the unknown.”
Standing in the opening where the tunnels joined, she watched Florence and Jo Ann disappear into the darkness. Finally only a dim light flickered in the distance, then vanished altogether. She was alone—alone with the dust of the centuries about her.
Jo Ann’s voice floated back just then with surprising clearness. “Everything all right?”
“Okay,” Peggy called back, more cheerfully than she felt.
CHAPTER XIV
GHOSTLY FIGURES
When Jo Ann and Florence had gone only a short distance, they noticed the tunnel curved so that they could not see Peggy’s light.
“Poor Peg’s alone now—she can’t even see our lights,” said Florence. “I almost wish we hadn’t left her back there.”
“If she’ll stay right where we left her, she ought to be all right. But this is the darkest place I was ever in—spooky, too.”
They walked slowly, stopping every now and then to examine the sides and top of the tunnel.
Jo Ann suddenly pointed to the top. “Look up there! There’s a crack.”