“Light ahead.”
“Wait a minute,” Bob ordered, and Jack stopped until he caught up with him.
“Look,” he said, pressing his body close against the side so that Bob could look past him.
In the distance, although it was hard to judge how far away, appeared a spot of light.
“It’s a way out all right,” he whispered. “But, Jack, we’ve got to be mighty careful, because more than likely one of them at least is watching there.”
“Maybe, but I doubt it.”
“Why?”
“Well, I don’t believe they could hear us when we moved the ladder. We didn’t make hardly a bit of noise and then again they wouldn’t think we would find that hole.”
“But that’s all guess work. I tell you we must go on the assumption that they’re on the watch.”
“Sure, but just the same I bet they aren’t.”