Also, in daytime the place was not so fearsome, since sunlight slanted down into many a passageway through the blow-holes high above.
"She ain't here.

I knew she wasn't," Eddie announced when the final tunnel let them into the graying light of dawn beyond the Peak.
"In that case--" Bud glanced from him to Jerry, who was blowing out his lantern.
Jerry let down the globe carefully, at the same time glancing soberly at Bud.

"The kid knows better than we do what would happen if Lew met up with her and Boise." Eddie shook his head miserably, his eyes fixed helpessly upon Bud.

"Lew never, Mr.Birnie.I was with him every minute from dark till--till the cashier, shot him.

We come up the way I took you through the canyon.