The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-01-30

this is. Though if we could get more
such grub as that I'd say stay. We
can get along without the Cap'n. The
| Cap'n is a good man in some ways,
but he's ever too free with. 'Dauphin.
hold your tongue or, 'Dauphin. you'll
be well-hanged some day He amt
got no feelings for a man what's been
unlucky, the Cap'n amt. We're we'll
rid Of # t the Gfapgn, so we are, Harry"
Captain" I said. You may go down
if you choose but I mean to stay and
see if I can't do something for him.
| You'd best stay, too, and maybe we
can get out. You ought TO know
some place here where we can hide till
they give up the hunt for us and then
we can see what we can do"
ooh, for the matter of what You say
I do know an uncommon snug place to
stow ourselves. but staying here and
! foolng round bout the Cap'n is the
worst thing we can do
| Come. show me that place" I said,
and We started with him grumbling
| like a cross bear about the Captain.
We went only little ways, and then
lit a candle. There" said Dauphin,
pointing to a hole not much bigger
than a barrel-head in the ceiling: up
there is a place whichll make you say
you're in the Robins Nest again, it is
so like it, barring the hole in the bot
TOM
1t was beyond our reach. but he
stopped over and l stood on his back:
then as he slowly Strengthened up 1
got hold of the edge and drew myself
up, with his pushing on my feet. Then
he tossed up the candle and the las
of the bread, and 1 lay on my face and,
catching my toes in a crack. reached
down and hauled him up by the arms.
though the lift went close to pullins
me in two. The place, as he had said
was very like the Robins Nest, and be-
ing, in a way, hung up, I called it the
Swallows Nest. There was also some
room around the edges, cracks and low
places, one of them with some little
stalactites and pools of water There
was no other way to get out except
through the hole in the bottom.
IF Ike London shoves his head III
that there hole he'll need lniment TO,
it," chuckled Dauphin. Then he broke
off a stalagmite shaped like a teacup
which must have weighed five pounds
a and, tearing a sleeve from his coat. ht
l tied it in one end of the sleeve witt
7 leather strings from his boot tops
! winding it all tightly, and making {
I most horrible weapon, it seemed to me
7 and he was that cheerful about it
Y chuckling to himself and talking O
: London's head, that it made me shud
q der to watch him.
n But no head was thrust up the hole
though some of the men went through
O the room below several times. From :
# few words we caught I concluded tina
d they had given up the hunt for bot
Il of us.
@ 1t must have gone near to being tw
V days that we stayed in the Swallow
If Nest then we left it, we thought 70
$ a short time only, but we never saw i
8 again; and l dare guess that a bunc
I of keys which / forgot and left there, j
V there to this day. 1t fell out in thi
e wise: Our victuals being gone and on
n candles down to one small bit, some
d thing had to be done; 1 decided that w
n had best scout about a little and Sc
g what it should be; so we started. w
= soon came up near the Fort, creepn
like cats. over a rock at the end of
Is small hole we got a view of it down
n larger tunnel Thus I may describe
a in two dozen words: Large room
s. nearly round, maybe one hundred fet
d across, floor mostly level and sand,
Is Bright fire in middle, with smoke goin
d straight up, as if it We're under a dom
a as Dauphin GndeedD said it was. TT
outlaws were sitting about the fiji
h drinking and smoking, London sti
N with his arm in a sling. My heart gay
d a. glad leap as I saw the Captain 81
ID ting little to one side, seeming as we
lie as ever.
ar The liquor they were drinking was