CHAPTER XVII
THE RESCUE
"What happened?"
"There must have been an ice slide!"
It was Alice who asked the question, and Paul who answered it. Standing in the darkened ice cave, through the walls of which, however, some light filtered, the four looked anxiously at one another.
"It was the dancing that did it," declared Ruth, in a low voice. "It loosened the ice and it slid down."
"Perhaps not," said Paul, not wanting Alice blamed, for she had proposed the light-footed stepping about on the slippery floor of the cavern. "It might have slid down itself."
"Well, let's see what the situation is," proposed Russ. "We can't stay in here too long, for it's freezing cold."