In this way he worked his way along with perseverance and good courage.
By his system of marking the false passages Frank was enabled to finally find a continuous passage to the eastward.
A gleam of daylight showed ahead.
Ten minutes’ run and he came into a lofty roofed cavern chamber in which all was daylight from an aperture above.
He recognized it as the treasure chamber. With a cry of joy he went on and soon came out into the defile once more.
It had seemed eternity, yet really Frank had been lost two days and nights in the depths of the Andean caverns.
CHAPTER VII.
ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND.
But what was really the fate of the two men, Harding and Pomp, who had fallen into the pit?
When Harding had plunged into the jungle, he had not stopped to think where his footsteps were leading him.
His sole thought was to distance his pursuers.