Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns; Or, The Light in Tunnel Six
Author: Archibald Lee Fletcher Genre: LiteratureBoy Scouts in the Coal Caverns; Or, The Light in Tunnel Six
dy had no notion of passing their first night in the mine in slumber. Ten minutes after the regular breathing of th
o wake me up! I've been wondering for a long time whether you h
e awake in my lif
d Sandy. "If we get into the min
how we're going to get
be the ladders f
l be the ladders
oming here in the middle of t
" asked Tommy. "I guess this one
or a piece of posi
his shoes and walking softly across the
s twenty feet in width. It included the air shaft, the division where the pumps were operated, and two divisions for the cage
n at the bottom of the shaft. As the boys looked down into
that light
hing!" dec
a light!" ins
ere it's merely a reflection from our electrics. There may bee caretaker said there were lights in the mine which no one could
he bottom of the shaft with the light will never suspect that we are within a hundred miles of
possible. Now and then a rung creaked softly under their
rew his light upward, then, and declared that in his opinion they were at least ten
only about five hundred feet deep. If I remember correctly, there are
" asked Tommy. "Why, we'r
d Tommy. "I ought t
we have to do is to push our searchlights ahead and walk down t
ay considerably cluttered with "gob," or
the air shaft worki
e whole works going in order to give us a midnight view of the Labyrinth mine. What gets
ixed all right!"
tring from his pocket and tied one end to t
uckled, "and when we want to return, all
idea!" lau
the shaft. The experience was a novel one to them. The dark walls of the passage, the echoes which came from the counter gangways, the
the boys came to a level which
through that!"
little ways, we can follow a cross headi
half-loaded cars which had been left on the tramway, found the
rom?" asked Tommy stopping shor
blower somewhere,
y. "What does it look like, and
posed of natural gas, and they call it a blower because i
atch, would it set it
like to have
nts, and then Tommy stopped and extinguished
for?" demande
t noise behind the c
, pro
e sounds like people whispering, do they? Keep
ng a light next!
now!" answ
the gangway. It moved from side to side, and finally dropped down nearer to the floor. There see
make of it?
nel Six?" as
light the caretaker referred to. We'll h
d to them to be a long time. Now the light advanced toward them, now it receded
ad referred were repeated, and the boys at last moved over so
ind the cribbing, all
ome one b
ere is anyone there, you'll frighten them
t is that either Will and George, or both of them, beat us to this
plied Sandy. "We lef
just listen to the sound that comes from behind
tched on his light and moved swiftly along the cribbing as i
and done it n
u hear the call of the pack a minute ago? There are Boy Scouts
ied Tommy excitedl