For four days I had lived in the midst of terror and darkness.

Daylight was only a few steps ahead, daylight and youth restored and a new world.
There were only two outlets from that cave--the way I had come, and the way the river came.

The first was closed, the second a sheer staring impossibility.

I had been into every niche and cranny, and there was no sign of a passage.

I sat down on the floor and looked at the wall of water.