"Now, get up with you," he ordered. "Remember, at the bottom of the
last ladder, blow out your lanterns."
"The wires?" queried Josh.
"I'll carry 'em. All you have to do is to get out of here."
In quivering silence the three evil-doers ascended. The light
of their lanterns extinguished, they stepped out of the shaft
and once more on the hard snow crust.
"Now, take the magneto back about two hundred feet, leaving the
wires stretched on the snow," whispered Dolph.
"Who's that coming?" Josh demanded, in sudden alarm, clutching
his leader's sleeve.
For an instant all three men quailed. But they remained silent,
peering.
"Don't get any more dreams, Josh," Dolph ordered sharply. "There's
no one coming. It's all in your nerves."
"I was sure I heard some one coming." Josh insisted in a whisper.
"But you didn't"
"What if some one comes now?"
"No one is coming."
"But if some one should?"
"All the more reason for getting our work done with speed. Once
we've connected the magneto and fired the blast our whole job
will be done.
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