Chapter 25
Sannie and Mia stood at the spot where Jeff had just disappeared and looked into the hole in the ground. Jeff grinned up at them.
‘A tunnel.’ Mia shook her head in wonderment, although, having seen the straight line that Sannie had just pointed out on the map, she had herself just come to the conclusion that the only way the poachers could have kept entering and leaving the reserve undetected was underground.
‘Exactly.’ Sannie looked around them and down at the ground around the entrance that Jeff had discovered. She knelt beside a circular steel cover, its concave surface filled with a mix of sand, leaves and twigs. It was like an expertly camouflaged manhole cover, lying in the grass by the hole in which Jeff stood, looking up.
‘The ground was disturbed, and the cover wasn
