Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-16

To his surprise he felt nothing behind the masonry be had removed, as far as his long arm could reach.
 It was a matter of but a few min utes to remove enough of the wall to permit his body to pass through the aperture Directly ahead of him he thought that he discerned a faint glow scarcely more than less impeuetrable dqrkness Cautiously he moved for ward on hands and knees until at about fifteen feet. or the average thickness Of the foundation walls, the floor ended abruptly in a sudden drop As far out as be could reach be felt nothing. nor could he dud the bottom of the black abyss that yawned before him, though. clinging to the edge of the floor. he lowered his body into the darkness to its full length.
 Finally it occurred to him to look up, and there above him be saw through a round opening a tiny circular patch Of starry sky Feeling up along the sides of the shaft as far as he could reach, the ape-man discovered that so much of the wall as he could feel converged toward the center of the shaft as 1t rose. This fact precluded possibility of escape in that direction.
 As he sat speculadug on the nature and uses of this strange passage and fits terminal shaft the moon topped the opening above, letting a flood of soft, sllvery light into the shadOwy place. Instantly the nature of the shaft be- came apparent to Tauan, for far be low him he saw the shimmering sur face of water He had come upon an ancient we'll But what was the pur- pose of the connection between the well and the dungeon in which he had been hiddeng
 As the moon crossed the opening Of the shaft its light flooded the whole interior. and then Tarzan saw directly across from him another opening in the opposite wall He wondered # this might not be the mouth of a passage leading to possible escape. It would be worth Investigating at least. and this he determined to do.
 Quickly returning to the wall he had demolished to explore what lay beyond it he carried the stones into the pas sageway and replaced them from that side. The deep deposits of dust which he had noticed upon the blocks as he had first removed them from the wall had convinced him that even if the present occupants of the ancient pile had knowledge of this hidden passage they had made no use of 1t for perhaps generations.
 The wall replaced, Tarzan returned to the shaft which was some fifteen feet wide at this point TO leap across the intervening space was a small mat ter to the ape-man. and a moment later he was proceeding along a narrow tun- mel, moving cautiously for fear of be- ing precipitated into another shaft such as he had just crossed
 He had advanced some hundred feet when he came to a flight of steps lead ing downward into the Stygian gloom. Some twenty feet below the level floor of the tunnel recommended, and short ly afterward his progress was stopped by a heavy wooden door, which was secured by massive wooden bars upon the side of rarzan's approach This fact suggested to the ape-man that be doubtless was in passageway lead ing to the outer world. for the bolts. barring progress from the opposite side tended to substantiate this hy- pothesis unless it were merely a prison to which it led
 Along the tops of the bars were deep layers of dust a further indication that the passage had laiu long unused.