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Show 90 him pull himself together. Quickly they hurried along the rock wall once more. When they reached a cross tunnel, Cap turned right. "Quick, down here." Chinook was pulling Josh along now. "Hey, I think Chinook can see better than us," Josh said. "Let me go first."1 "Okay, but quick." Yet even with the dog leading they had to stumble along like blind toads, groping and falling. And behind them the occasional glimpses of the faltering light told them Rollins had followed them down the side tunnel and was getting closer. Josh gritted his teeth, urged the dog on, and picked up his pace. Suddenly the rock wall at his side disappeared. Josh paused. The tunnel seemed to have enlarged around them. They became aware of it as the echoes of their breathing changed to a hollow sound. "It-it's some kind of room," Josh said. Chinook had stopped in front of him. As he tried to push past the dog, feeling the air with his hands, the animal whined and refused to move. "C'mon,Chinook," Josh said sharply. "Move! Get out of the way-he's coming!" But the dog would not move, and seemed to be leaning against the boy. Down the tunnel way the reflection of a dim light bounced along the walls toward them. Both boys froze. The light flickered, went out, and they heard Rollins swear again. As Josh started to plunge ahead, he felt Cap's grip tighten on his shoulder. "Don't move'." he whispered urgently. "I just thought of something." "What, for cat's sake," Josh said. "Listen, pa says these ol' mines sometimes got a shaft that |