he stood outside it , looking into the light , not able to see much from the drift side , hearing david 's voice in his head almost as a trance-subject must hear the voice of the hypnotist who has put him under : at ten minutes past one on the afternoon of september twenty-first , the guys at the face broke through into what they at first thought was a cave ... johnny tossed the flashlight aside - he would n't need it anymore - and squeezed through the gap .