Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns; Or, The Light in Tunnel Six

dy had no notion of passing their first night in the mine in slumber. Ten minutes after the regular breathing of th

o wake me up! I've been wondering for a long time whether you h

e awake in my lif

d Sandy. "If we get into the min

how we're going to get

be the ladders f

l be the ladders

oming here in the middle of t

" asked Tommy. "I guess this one

or a piece of posi

his shoes and walking softly across the

s twenty feet in width. It included the air shaft, the division where the pumps were operated, and two divisions for the cage

n at the bottom of the shaft. As the boys looked down into

that light

hing!" dec

a light!" ins

ere it's merely a reflection from our electrics. There may be

e caretaker said there were lights in the mine which no one could

he bottom of the shaft with the light will never suspect that we are within a hundred miles of

possible. Now and then a rung creaked softly under their

rew his light upward, then, and declared that in his opinion they were at least ten

only about five hundred feet deep. If I remember correctly, there are

" asked Tommy. "Why, we'r

d Tommy. "I ought t

we have to do is to push our searchlights ahead and walk down t

ay considerably cluttered with "gob," or

the air shaft worki

e whole works going in order to give us a midnight view of the Labyrinth mine. What gets

ixed all right!"

tring from his pocket and tied one end to t

uckled, "and when we want to return, all

idea!" lau

the shaft. The experience was a novel one to them. The dark walls of the passage, the echoes which came from the counter gangways, the

the boys came to a level which

through that!"

little ways, we can follow a cross headi

half-loaded cars which had been left on the tramway, found the

rom?" asked Tommy stopping shor

blower somewhere,

y. "What does it look like, and

posed of natural gas, and they call it a blower because i

atch, would it set it

like to have

nts, and then Tommy stopped and extinguished

for?" demande

t noise behind the c

, pro

e sounds like people whispering, do they? Keep

ng a light next!

now!" answ

the gangway. It moved from side to side, and finally dropped down nearer to the floor. There see

make of it?

nel Six?" as

light the caretaker referred to. We'll h

d to them to be a long time. Now the light advanced toward them, now it receded

ad referred were repeated, and the boys at last moved over so

ind the cribbing, all

ome one b

ere is anyone there, you'll frighten them

t is that either Will and George, or both of them, beat us to this

plied Sandy. "We lef

just listen to the sound that comes from behind

tched on his light and moved swiftly along the cribbing as i

and done it n

u hear the call of the pack a minute ago? There are Boy Scouts

ied Tommy excitedl