"If we'd only had some
clubs with us we might have had a chance."
"Well, they made us show our backs, and that's something the Huns
were never able to do," said Frank. "But I guess we'd better get
back to the barracks and cauterize these bites. I don't know how
you fellows made out, but I'll bet they bit me in twenty places.
I'm bleeding fiercely."
"Same here," echoed Billy.
"I feel as though I were one big wound," said Bart lugubriously.
"But say, fellows, don't let on what we've been up against or the
boys will guy us to death."
"And to think we've been to all this trouble only to find that
we'd stumbled into a sewer," said Frank disgustedly. "That's what
it must have been, guessing by the smell."
"Oh by the way!" exclaimed Billy, as a thought struck him. "I
meant to tell you fellows, but the fight with the rats put it out
of my mind. There was an electric light in one of those passages."
Frank, who had gotten to his feet and started to walk away,
stopped as though he had been shot.
"What's that?" he demanded sharply.
"Fact," replied Billy. "I could see it plainly, and behind it I
saw the outline of a door.
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