Bye." And Jed left them at a trot.
"I am going to investigate our cave.

You can come along if you want to, but if that fellow with the explosive name--_Bangs_--should chance to be there I'll tell you in advance you better make tracks lively, for there surely will be some shooting," warned Hippy.
Torches were prepared and Washington reluctantly led the way into the cave with one, Hippy walking behind him with drawn revolver, the Overland girls bringing up the rear a few yards from Lieutenant Wingate.
Not having explored the cave very far, they were amazed at its depth; in fact they had gone on, it seemed, a good mile and were still looking for the end.
"I don't believe there is any one in here," Hippy was saying.

"We might as well go back." "Ahem!" "Who said that ?" demanded Hippy.
"Ahem!" Washington Washington uttered a yell and bolted back for the opening of the cave, taking his torch with him, leaving the Overlanders in the blackest darkness they had ever experienced.
"I make the near blind to see, and the seeing to see in the dark as in the daylight.

I am the benefactor of all-uns of the mountains.

Specs, ladies and gentlemen--fit you with specs that will enable you to penetrate even the darkness of the under-earth.