The chapter opens with a description of the night that has passed since the previous night's events. The narrator asks what this means, and the reader is told that it is "an argu-ment night . . night the thirty-third ." The narrator does not know what that means, but he does know that the night has passed. He asks the others if they are all right, and they tell him that they are. He then asks if they would like to stop talking like that, because he does not have a family, and he wonders if they will be satisfied with what they have found. They all swear to each other that this is their only path now, and that they will return to the cave to think things over. He tells the others that if he had not gone back to his family, he would not have known what he has found. He says that he has figured out that the people in the cave are "bad people" and