"
There was not much else in the cave that they could see with the one
lantern. Grandpa Martin wanted to look about more, and back in the far
corners, but he did not like to take the children along, and Jan held
tightly to his hand as if she feared she would lose him.
"I'll come here alone some other time, and see what I can find,"
thought Grandpa Martin to himself, as they came out.
"I don't like it in there," said Jan, once they were again out in the
sunshine. "I don't like caves."
"I do," declared Ted. "When Hal Chester comes to visit me, as he said
he would, he and I will look all through this cave."
"Is Hal coming?" asked Jan, remembering the boy, once lame but now
cured, who had played with them and told them about Princess Blue
Eyes.
"Yes, mother asked him to come and spend a week, and he said he would.
We'll have some fun in the cave."
"What do you suppose the big hole can be?" asked Mrs. Martin, when
Grandpa Martin and the children reached camp after their visit to the
strange place.
"I don't know," he answered. "It doesn't seem to have been dug with
picks and shovels. It's just a natural cave I guess, and some
fishermen may have eaten their lunch there one day when it rained. But
there is no one in it now."
Ted and Jan talked much about the cave the rest of that day. They went
for a ride in the wagon drawn by Nicknack, taking Trouble with them.
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