"Nothing here," Rick said, and his voice was lost in the emptiness of the shaft.
Scotty grunted. "Another dead end. Okay, where did the ghost come from?"
Rick didn't know. He couldn't even imagine. He puzzled over it as they walked outside, then suddenly snapped his fingers. "Did you see any sign of water in there? Or a pipe?"
"No. It was dry. No pipes. Why?"
"How was the original artesian well driven? Right into the hillside? If so, why didn't the mine tunnel strike water?"
Scotty scratched his chin. "Now that you mention it, I haven't the faintest idea. Have you?"
"Negative. I can't ever remember having so few ideas. But it's strange. We'll have to ask Dr. Miller about it."
"Maybe the answer is deeper in the mine," Scotty replied. "Let's go back and see."
Rick reminded him that they had no lights. "I suppose we could make torches out of junk from the trash cans."
"Easy, if we can find some newspapers."
There were several trash cans spotted around the picnic area, and it was indicative of the kind of neat people in the vicinity that they were used. There was no litter.
The second can yielded two entire newspapers, one a bulky edition of a Washington paper, the other a ten-page local sheet. The boys split the papers evenly, then rolled them tightly. They frayed one end with a jackknife to make the torch.
"Got a match?" Rick asked.
Scotty looked at him blankly, then grinned. "No, have you?"
"No match, no flint or steel, no ... hey, wait! I've got a pocket lens!"
Rick's enthusiasm for microscopy had extended to the purchase of a twelve-power pocket lens to supplement the mic
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