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The other boys searched for nearly an hour, but Frank Hardy seemed to have disappeared literally into the bowels of the earth.
With only their flashlights to illuminate the huge cave, they found it difficult to conduct the search with any degree of satisfaction. They blundered here and there, not at all certain that they were anywhere near the place where their companion had disappeared.