"
"I was thinking of asking Oje to watch a short time," Will said.
"It's a good thing the Indian came along with you."
Oje was called down to the barricaded entrance and the situation
briefly explained to him. The Indian stepped close to the boulder
and listened for a long time for sounds from the inside.
Then he turned to, the boys and shook his head gravely.
"Don't you ever tell me they've gone and got away!" exclaimed
Tommy. "Why, they couldn't get away unless they walked through
forty feet of solid rock! And they couldn't do that!"
"I'm going to find out!" declared Will.
The lads pried the boulder away, blocking it so that it could not
crash down the slope and so warn the men inside of the approach of
the boys. Then Will crept cautiously into the dark passage.
The others were at his heels in a moment. On the previous visit of
Will and Tommy, there had been the light of a torch in the cavern,
but there was no illumination of any kind now.
"I guess they've gone, all right!" Tommy, whispered.
"Why didn't you get the Little Brass God while the getting was
good?" demanded Sandy.
"The guns those fellows carried didn't look good to me!" was the
reply.
"It's a mystery to me how they ever got out of this cavern," Will
observed.
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