“But if this Nixon young man takes after you again?” inquired Mrs. Montrose.
“We’ll have to do the best we can,” answered Jerry. “But I think it will be some time before he catches up to us this time. It was a very lonely spot where we left him.”
“And the walking wasn’t very good,” added Ned with a laugh.
“Still, after what he had done in the past, I would be on the watch,” advised Mr. Montrose.
“Oh, we will be,” declared Jerry; and then, after a good night’s rest, they put in the next few days getting ready for their trip to the canyon.
The Comet was thoroughly overhauled, and some needed repairs made. Though Noddy and his companions had not been careful in their treatment of the craft, still they had done no serious damage.
“Well, I think we are ready to start for the canyon to-day,” remarked Jerry one morning, after about a week spent at the Montrose home. “We can make it in two days, though it may take us a little longer to pick out Snake Island, and have the conditions favorable for a descent into the big gorge.”
“Then you are really going down into it?” asked Mr. Montrose. “You know it is quite a fearsome place.”
“From all accounts it must be,” admitted Jerry.