"Here's three candles gone a'ready, an' only three more left us, yet the tunnel's the same as it was when we started.

An' how long it's goin' to keep up, no one knows." "Couldn't we walk without a light ?" asked Trot.

"The way seems safe enough." "It does right now," was the reply, "but we can't tell when we are likely to come to another gulf, or somethin' jes' as dangerous.

In that case we'd be killed afore we knew it." "Suppose I go ahead ?" suggested the Ork.

"I don't fear a fall, you know, and if anything happens I'll call out and warn you." "That's a good idea," declared Trot, and Cap'n Bill thought so, too.