Chapter 16 WRECKERS' WAY
　　Julian flung open the door. Timmy leapt past him and yelped¹ with delight to find Yan standingoutside. He fawned³ on the boy and licked him, and Yan laughed.
　　'Let's get out of here, quick!' said Dick. 'That man may be along at any moment, you can't tell.'
　　'Right. Explanations later,' said Julian. He hustled⁴ everyone out, took the key from the inside lock andshut the door. He inserted the key into the outside lock and turned it. He shot the bolts, took out thekey and put it into his pocket. He grinned at Dick.
　　'Now if that fellow comes along to see how we are he won't even know we're gone! He won't be ableto get in to see if we're there or not.'
　　'Where shall we go now?' asked Anne, feeling as if she was in a peculiar⁵ kind of dream.
　　Julian stood and considered. 'It would be madness to go back up the passage and into the old house,'
　　he said. 'If there's any signalling going on, and there's pretty certain to be, we shall be caught again.
　　We'd be sure to make a noise scrambling⁶ out of that hole in the fire-place.'
　　'Well, let's take that other passage we saw, the righthand one,' said George. 'Look, there it is.' Sheshone her torch on it. 'Where does it lead to, Yan?'
　　'To the beach,' said Yan. 'I went down it when I was looking for you all, but you weren't there, so Icame back and found that door. There is nobody on the beach.'
　　'Well, let's go down there, then,' said Dick. 'Once we feel we're out of danger's way we can planwhat's best to do.'
　　They went along the other passage, their torch showing them the way. It was a steep tunnel, and theyfound it rather difficult going. Anne managed to give Yan a squeeze.
　　'You were clever to find us!' she said, and Yan gave her a smile which she couldn't see because of thedark.
　　They heard the sound of waves at last and came out into the open air. It was a windy night, but starswere shining in the sky, and gave quite a fair light after the darkness of the passage.
　　'Where are we exactly?' said Dick, looking round. Then he saw they were on the same beach as theyhad been a few days before, but a good way farther along.

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