“You did have to come in, that’s a fact. How did you pass the soldiers on guard?”
“There is a way. I know it.”
“And you can show us how to leave this place without being stopped by the soldiers?”
“I can.”
“That’s a plenty interesting!” muttered Buckhart.
Professor Gunn was greatly excited.
“Then show us—show us!” he fluttered. “We’ll be glad enough to get out.”
“It would do you no good as you now are, for you would be compelled to appear on the open streets, and the people of the city are greatly aroused against foreigners. You would be attacked on the street. Better the mercy of the soldiers than that of the mob.”
“Then you cannot help us, after all!”
“My instructions were to aid only the boy who restored life to the noble sheik when he was struck by the iron chariot of the infidels.”