"I am not going back alone—I couldn't find the way," answered Tad.
"Then don't growl."
"I reckon we'll all have to go back and wait till that Spaniard can show us the way," said Shelley.
"That's well enough to say, Shelley. But supposing those Rovers come here in the meantime?"
"Those boys?"
"Yes, and their father, and the others on that steam yacht," went on
Sid Merrick earnestly.
"They can't find the cave any quicker than we can—if Wingate did as he promised."
"But if he didn't? He's a good deal of a coward and perhaps he didn't have the nerve to dose Bahama Bill."
More talk followed, but as the men were now moving in another direction the Rovers and their companions made out little more of the conversation.
"What shall we do, confront them?" asked Sam of his parent.