CHAPTER XIV—PRINCE HUACA FRIENDLY
“Look here, Jack,” said Frank, as the three chums kept step together along the corridor, while Ferdinand walked ahead with Mr. Hampton and his father, Don Ernesto. “Look here, what do you think our chances of escape are going to be?”
“I don’t know.”
Jack shook his head. As for big Bob, he growled a comment.
“Why worry? I’m having a good time. I want to learn all about this city. And the treasure, too, that we came for, it——”
“Oh, we’ll have to give up that idea now,” said Jack. “We can’t rob these people. If the Enchanted City had been abandoned and in ruins, and we had discovered it, that would have been a different matter.”
Frank took no part in this discussion. It wasn’t treasure of which he was thinking.
“Just the same, Bob,” he interrupted, “we ought to be thinking of how we can escape, for I have an idea that these people intend to keep us imprisoned for life or, as Don Ernesto says, persuade us to join the nation.”