The bottom logs of the cabin rested squarely upon the ground, after the primitive fashion.

The floor was of bark, and a section of this had been lifted.

The prisoners had then dug their hole under the log.
"It was done with metal tools of some kind," said Wyatt.

"But they had nothing when we locked them in here.

I can swear to that, as I was one of those who searched them well." "Then they must have had help!" exclaimed Alvarez, and again he turned fiercely upon the sentinels, but Braxton Wyatt intervened.