“There’s only one explanation,” Sandy said as he scrambled back to join Mike. “The slide was covering the mouth of this cave. When the rocks started to give way, the entrance suddenly opened up and we fell in.”
“And all that stuff passed right over our heads,” Mike said.
“Looks like that’s it.”
The two boys stared at each other in silence. “You know,” Sandy said quietly, “we’re a couple of pretty lucky guys.”
“I’ll say! If we had been any other place when the slide started to go....”
“We’d be down there at the bottom under a few hundred tons of rock,” Sandy finished.
“Let’s not talk about it.” Mike shivered.
“All right,” Sandy agreed. “Let’s talk about how we’re going to get out of here.”
Mike’s brows knit together in a frown. “Do you think Hank knows what happened?”
Sandy laughed. “One thing’s for sure,” he said. “He certainly heard us. That was a pretty big racket we set off.”