The times., 1898-01-09
Continued from last week.
PART III.

- L hat DO, captain, Sdio, anu
know my voice treInuled more IMAM MS
hand. II would not have let you come
alone Il you had wanted TO. Can you
forgive me for taking Robert where
oid That day.
..on, tnat was different. You did not
know there was danger. ought 10
have known there was awIGl danger mere.
fsut, come, we ii make another triai. Wen
not die mere Ike rats IN a mole There's
enough candle To last i've or SIX hours Dy
Keeping the wick split. We have little
strength left. ana there S one place pey ohd
The uwu-colunn room wnere 4 tnlnk there
may still ps nope. Tnere ATE three matches
LETT you said"
Yes.
'.l,e sure you find dry place before
Won Sc craucn il, - he added as / ielt bout
for the wall. he match went, and he
held the candle and once more we looked
into our thin, pine he'd faces. L could See
tnat he appea led much more bowed anu
DioKen tuan lie DAY before. ror two days
we mad been following ne plan ut was the
captains idea and A good onel OF Keeping
the WICK OF the canoIe spiIu IN two, care
fully pushing down anu cutting OF naif
or it with tlIe point oi our knives as the
uaIlow sank lower. THIS gave smaller
flame, but ate UP the candle muchsioweT.
Tne Regular beat OF the unknown noise
was piaIner tnan ever, but we left III be
IllIlu W men We EON fOif1 tiAt ASpAA- " h~iS
We were IN. We dragged ourselves along
the shortest way toward the TWO coiunm
room Several times We stopped anu went
down into mole wn.cn We thought might
lead somewhere; but we always found
tnat We Ia d exploded them before.
9here seemed 10 be hundreds OF these
places leading down and under winch
ended ny being too small Tor us To wnggle
farther. In some places, deep down un-
der the hedges at the side or end or
rooms or passa geways, We found iaoles
or long, low openings through when
we could see higher and larger spa oes
beyond, but which were tJo small 10 allow
us To get through To what might mean
freedom
We got to the two-column room at last,
which we so called from two Dig limestone
piilars, and clambered over a pyramid or
loose rock sand then down a steep crack
q numper OF yards wide but hardly TWO
feet nigh. We slid down twenty feet, and
sat up where it was little higher
eve been here, heIore, captafn-It's S
like All the rest, 1 said, sorro wfully and
hopelesiy-
.-fes, A gness we have, Harry he an
swereC Ii L. peered down into the narrow
ing crack. ''lts larger beyond, but there's
no getting through" lie rested his shoul-
der heavily on the rim OF rock which
barred our way. As he did 50 IL moved.
lie SPlLeG lbs @0SSS'
Harry" And 50 il was.
We both laid hold OF il, and though
yon could rock IL with one hanu, we
Were not stroDg enough TO move IL, but
we could see that IL IL could oe rolled a
foot we could get through.
IF we had something TO pry with We
could do il, captain l said.
The gun barrel wodlG do, he answered
''I'll get it, | cried, Sprlnglng up with
new strength,
But IL two miles from here
II don care. Stay here and I'll bring
it, and / was Off
4 was as good as my word, too, going
as fast as 4 could without flirting cut
The little flame or my candle, though as
We s.ad come down | could only dra z
along as If made of lead. i pa ssed the
bedroom, and the ledge on which rested
the coil OF rope. found the gun readily
enough and hurried back. lbe captain
nried under the end OF the stone with
the barrel, while / pushed on the top
lt rolled over and we crawled through
We crept fer perhaps 4 hundred feet
all the way downward; then we came
outin A high and va dlted room, with great
..listeniug stalactiUsS at one side, and real
Jzed that we were where we had never
been before. We forgot our hunger and
weakness, and went along faster tfan fol
days.
~
of tb. cave" cried the captain "See
how nluch bigger the rooms are. We
won't have t1 crawl here. We're all righl
now Harry and the old fire came hacF
into his eyes, as lie faced tBe and held III
the candle.
Il hope So, i answ cred. But the
candle won't last four hours
You can do a good deal in four hours,
my boy. Hello, WHAT'S this2'
lie was looking up at tie roof three or
four feet over our heads on which this
was smoked in fude letters:
GIL DAUPHiN WAS HEAR.
'.Gil Bauphin was here" / read.
Ivy no is Gil Dauphin2''
''IIe used TO he one OF the l. ondon gang,
answered the ca ptain, excitedly. We're
all right--we're in Frontenac Cave sure
enough. / knew Gilbert Dauphin on the
river as an honest boy. 7 hen he took to
drink. and lots of it, and robbed man TO
get more, and went to states prison, and
got in with London since that. Wen
soon find them now, Harry"
But il so, what can we do?'' asked.
slip around them and get out, OF course.
That's all we came in 20 do, you know
find them and get out
We kept pressing on, though as it was
all new 70 us, and our poor candles seemed
TO give 40 light at all in the large ROOMS,
we often went wrong and found ourselves
kiODpat III kllt emu vi d FoSS" ~ u 49,,
or pit, and had to go back So we got
on slow and ] felt my enthusiasm dying
aud the old raintness and weakness coming
over me- Twice more we saw GIL DAU-
PHIN WAS HEAR, and once this
GIL DAUPHIN
HIS GAVE.
''I wonder why we can't see the names
OF any of the Others" j said.
"Ah, they're not the men that would
lofhar with writing their IUs
very likely u il, though. he was very sim
ple-wftued, and SOME said he was half
foolish, but that was not so. i suppos'
he was bad enough for it, but still WA
surprised " hen heard that he had JOINED
the Loudon gang. ] thought he seemed
more cut out for quieter kinds OF crime
/ never thought Gil Dauphin was 50 bad al
heart, but he w as a druukard, and fell int,
bad company, Of course, when he took Il
drink
We went on and on. myself growing
fainter all the time, but the ca plain never
losing his new hope. We saw diruly
many monster stalactites, and twice
heard waterfalls, though muffled, a
if far off. Once / was like 10 stumble
over the edgeof a great hole, but the captain
caught my arm and pulled me back.
Soon after we came to passage which
led TO the right, and as it seemed large
we followed it. Ii soon grew lower, ant
we could scarce stand upright; then 1
turned sharply TO the left, grew high
er and broader, and went up hill for q
few yards. The captain was ahead, carry
ing the light. Suddenly he stopped, and
reaching back, drew me up Ind exclaimed
"See there, Harryi'
/ looked down into great pit ant
out the other side of IL, and, the lowel
part being eaten away, saw a fire be
tween two rocks. 1t was just beyond ;
oufet Streafst of water and seemed VOL