P'raps we better." "Can you find the way, Tom?
It's all a mixed-up crookedness to me." "I reckon I could find it--but then the bats.

If they put our candles out it will be an awful fix.

Let's try some other way, so as not to go through there." "Well.

But I hope we won't get lost.

It would be so awful!" and the girl shuddered at the thought of the dreadful possibilities.
They started through a corridor, and traversed it in silence a long way, glancing at each new opening, to see if there was anything familiar about the look of it; but they were all strange.