Without saying more the young man rushed out of the grotto, followed by the greater part of his companions.
"What did he mean by what he said?" Doña Luz asked, anxiously.
"Come with me, my daughter," the old lady replied, sorrowfully; "come, let us pray for him."
She drew her softly towards the retired part of the grotto which they inhabited.
There only remained about half a score men charged with the defence of the two women.
[CHAPTER XI.]
THE PRISONERS.
When the redskins and the hunters had recaptured the camp of the Mexicans, the pirates, according to the orders of their leader, had spread about in all directions, in order the more easily to escape the researches of their enemies.