“Harry will be sure to do something to help me out of this, if I can only gain time,” he thought. “That’s what I want—time! I must fight for it!”
He turned to the big Arab and said:
“Do you want more of that money? I can give it to you if you will promise to let me go away by myself for five minutes.”
The Arab looked at him suspiciously.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“That I know where there is more. Do you suppose I came here for nothing?”
“Ah! You Franks know much. Your book tell you that gold was buried here!”
“Yes.”
“And this is not all?”