"Let's
get out of here."
"My goneness is in my knees," Walter Perkins informed them.
"Either place is bad enough," returned Ned.
"Do you think it safe for us to leave here now?" asked Tad.
"I have been waiting until I thought it was," answered the guide. "Of
course, I have no means of knowing how much the explosion has loosened
the rocks further out, near where the blast was fired."
"That's so," agreed the boys.
"We may have to face still other dangers, but I think we had better
make a start. I am not sure that these rocks over our heads are any
too secure, either. Have you boys any matches?"
"Yes, I have some," replied Tad.
"I'll use mine first, then. We'll need all we have before we get out
into the car tunnel," said Tom. "Are you getting hungry?"
"To tell the truth, I for one haven't had time to think about my
appetite," laughed Ned.
"Yes, I guess our minds have been so full of other things that our
stomachs have not had a chance to make their wants known," said Tad.
"How about you, Walt?"
"What I want most of anything in the world just at this minute, is to
see daylight. Isn't night outside yet, is it?"
"No, it is only just past noon," the miner informed him.
"Always have a total eclipse of the sun down here," muttered Ned
humorously, but no one paid any attention to his feeble joke.
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