Just one more
chance!"
We searched for an hour before we found the stream of water we
sought. After Harry had bathed his knee and drunk his fill he
felt more fit, and we pushed on more rapidly, but still quite at
random.
We turned first one way, then another, in the never-ending
labyrinth, always in darkness and silence. We seemed to get
nowhere; and I for one was about to give up the disheartening
task when suddenly a sound smote our ears that caused us first to
start violently, then stop and gaze at each other in
comprehension and eager surprise.
"The bell!" cried Harry. "They are being summoned to the great
cavern!"
It was the same sound we had heard twice before; a sound as of a
great, deep-toned bell ringing sonorously throughout the passages
and caverns with a roar that was deafening. And it seemed to be
close--quite close.
"It came from the left," said Harry; but I disagreed with him and
was so sure of myself that we started off to the right. The
echoes of the bell were still floating from wall to wall as we
went rapidly forward. I do not know what we expected to find, and
the Lord knows what we intended to do after we found it.
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