They walked and talked. And went into a second tunnel. Then a third. Sometimes Tom put a mark with candle smoke on the tunnel wall-he wanted to find the mount of the cave again! Then they came out of the tunnels into a big room. There were hundreds of bats in this room. And the candles work them up. Tom took Becky’s hand and ran into the nearest tunnel. with the bats behind them. But one bat hit Becky’s candle and it went out. The children ran and ran through the tunnels. And at last they got away from the bats. They stopped and sat down. Suddenly. It was very. Very quiet.