It wouldn't be the first time," she added bitterly.
She stopped then and asked for a match, and when Bud gave her one she lighted a candle and held it up so that she could examine the walls.
"It's a natural tunnel," she volunteered in a different tone.

"Somewhere along here there is a branch that goes back into the hill and ends in a blow-hole.

But we're all right so far." She blew out the candle and urged Boise forward, edging over to the right.
"Wasn't that taking quite a chance, making a light ?" Bud asked as they went on.
"It was, but not so great a chance as missing the way.

Jerry didn't hear anything of them when he went to the pasture gate, and they may not come through this way at all.

They may not realize at first that you have left, and even when they did they would not believe at first that you had gone to Crater.