"Friends!" she screamed, in an endeavor to make him hear.
CHAPTER XXIV.
INZA'S STORY.
The man did not hear Inza, but he felt the touch, and, turning quickly about, caught something of her meaning in her manner. The deaf are wonderfully quick in such things. He made a horrible grimace and pointed at Merriwell. Again she laid a hand restrainingly on his shoulder.
"Let the man up, Frank," she urged. "The fellows are harmless enough, but they are as deaf as adders!"
"Look out for the dog!" Frank warned.
The dog, which had crawled away in a seemingly dying condition, had struggled again to its feet and appeared to be meditating another attack on Hodge.
"I've got an eye on him," Hodge called back. "Look out for your man!"
Merriwell released the fellow he had overthrown, and the man climbed dazedly and sullenly to his feet. Inza hurried toward him, shrieking and making motions with her hands. The man did not understand her. It began to seem that both of them contemplated an attack on Bart and Merry.