“It is hardly likely.”
“But it might, Misther Frank.”
“It might, but I have no belief that it will. We have only Pomp to search for us, and he would never find this shaft. Even if he found it he would never suspect that we were at the bottom of it.”
There was logic in this.
Their case seemed certainly a hopeless and dreary one.
There seemed nothing left to them but calm resignation to their fate.
But the indefatigable Barney would not give up.
“Shure, I wish I cud foind a way to cloimb out av the place,” he muttered.
He crawled to the mouth of the shaft and looked up.
As he did so an exclamation escaped his lips.