"See!" she cried, pointing ahead with her spear.
I followed the direction with my eye, and saw what appeared to be
a sharp break in the wall.
It was some fifty feet away. We reached it in another moment,
and I think none of us would have been able to express the
immeasurable relief we felt when we saw before us a broad and
clear passage leading directly away from the cavern. It was very
dark, but we entered it almost at a run.
I think we had not known the extent of our fear of that thing in
the cavern until we found the means of escape from it.
We had gone about a hundred feet when we came to a turn to the
left. Harry stumbled against the corner, and we halted for an
instant to wait for him.
Then we made the turn, side by side--and then we came to a sudden
and abrupt stop, and a simultaneous gasp of terror burst from our
lips.
Not three feet in front of us, blocking the passage completely,
stood the thing we thought we had escaped!
The terrible, fiery eyes rolled from side to side as they stared
straight into our own.
Chapter XVIII.
A VICTORY AND A CONVERSATION.
We stood for a long moment rooted to the spot, unable to move.
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