“Your sister—Queen Nalie.”
“Ah! Was it an act of your own free will and accord?”
“No, hardly;” and Leo explained the whole circumstance from beginning to end.
“How is the new queen liked by the people of Hez?”
“Very well, I guess.”
“Do you know one thing?”—and Dick’s wife called Leo aside. “I have agreed to leave this underground world with my husband, if we can find a way to get out, and go, with him to the land of his own people. He is making arrangements to lead a number of the men of this place to Hez and capture it. That once done, he says, he can easily find some means of getting to the outside world.”
“That’s true, old fellow, chimed in Dick.
“I now have eighty good fighting men at my command, and I think we shall be able to down the Hezzians, even if they do outnumber us.”
“You can count on me to do my part, I assure you,” said Leo.
The Naztecs seemed to be pleased at another addition to their number.