Then we must lift Captain O'Connor carefully and put him on it and get him outside.

It will be a difficult business getting him through the narrow entrance, but we must manage it as well as we can.

But first let us thoroughly examine the caves; there may be another entrance somewhere." Searching carefully they found a passage behind the stack of kegs.

It was some eight feet high and as much wide.

They followed it for a short distance, and then saw daylight.