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

he call of the Beaver Patrol?" asked

itation of the slap of a beaver's tail o

ure," suggested Sandy. "He ought to be wise to the sig

water in an adjoining chamber and then the call of the pack came

are looking after?" asked Sandy, after waiting

and Dick Thompso

hest and cried out at

immie! He

but there was no other reply. Tommy and Sandy gave the call of the Bea

the chamber for a long time in the hope of hearing another ca

ean by trick?"

of the stoppage of operations, may have sneaked into the mine

ng signals of the Wolf Patro

were Scouts," r

ld want to test us, wouldn't they

here," said Tommy, "and that is that there really

ell go back to be

ers we've turned since we

and, I guess,"

time getting out if you hadn'

y, "we'll pass around the next shoulder of rock and then shut off our lights. Perhap

a good i

cloth, set up in a passage to divert the current of air to a bench where workmen

h your old light,

the light showed again, apparently but

than before, rang through the passage. The boys

out and show yoursel

ou're Scouts at al

ip of water and the purring of the current as i

y. "I'm not going to hang around here waiting

bed and think the matter over. There may

Jimmie Maynard and Dic

case closed up in a

rge round piece of "Gob," placed it in the center of the op

oing that for?"

is the trail.' Now I'll put one stone to the right and that will tell t

t out if they want t

ing, the boys turned again, this time to the left, Tommy

a grin, "we've started

to follow it, tha

" Sandy said, after the boys had walked fo

y, "and see if it stiffens up like on

ped to the floor with his searchlight

loose!" he said

ommy. "How did it

f the passage and began drawi

ee if it's been

iftly moving cord and h

on the floor as we strung it out, we can follow it without

y agreed. "I didn't

, one of them keeping a searchl

d once or twice Sandy declared that they

d walk around in a circle!" argued Tommy. "T

t about all the time, and if you leave it to me, we'll present

urning to the left most of the time. Besides," he went on, "we've be

the cord every step. It lies right in the middle of the gan

ht of the frame work which surrounded the shaft. At length, after a long half hour, Tommy stumbled over an obstruction

sign of the trai

"Have we been traveling all this time t

n to the string whatever and followed the rails when we came to t

of this cord and so we followed that. I don't see, though," he continued, "how we

e's some gink been walking on ahead of us

of the chamber and wrinkled h

e of easy mark

s is no na

e know, it'll be daylight, and then Will and George'll be calling

e to be in my little bed this minute! I

then stopped. Tommy pointed down to it with a hand which was not qu

een moved

know it's

the side stone on

nk I did!" a

a few moments, and then proceeded down t

amber and finally came to a pl

ruck it at last!"

no rails here

wrong track again

hlight and pointed out evidences that t

d, "they take away the rails. It seems that we are now i

ver Patrol and tell those ginks who have been giving the call of the

given time after tim

come exhausted, "I believe it's daylight. L

o," answered Sandy. "I

hung