It's not a question of mere curiosity, it's a
duty we owe to society."
"Speech! speech!" Roy cried again. "We have some little orator in our
midst! But may I ask," he added, with exaggerated politeness, "how we
are to go about accomplishing this service to society?"
Betty's patience was at an end. "Ask something you can answer yourself!"
she said shortly, and Roy was silenced.
They deposited the basket at what seemed to them an ideal spot and were
about to examine the contents when a sharp cry from Mollie arrested
their attention.
"Look! look!" she cried. "I've found it! Girls--boys, come here! Quick."
There was no need of urging, for they fairly flew in the direction of
her voice. There she was down on her knees before an opening much lower
and narrower than the one they had discovered before, but nevertheless
unmistakably another entrance to the cave.
"I caught my foot in a twig," she explained, as they crowded around her,
wild with excitement, "and I almost fell into the cave." So, as in the
first place, the discovery had been made through an accident.
The cave seemed to have been formed in a rise of the ground--it could
hardly be termed a hill--and as the young people looked inside, its
black interior stretched as far as they could see.
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