"I haven't the least idea, ma'am."
"Freak gorillas," said Calvin.
"No, sir," said Adam. "I've been thinking. Wasn't the Java Ape Man about nine feet tall?"
"Five and a half's more like it," said Watkins. "At least that's how I remember it."
"Well, some fossil man was nine feet tall," said Adam dogmatically. "Couldn't that thing be one of them? There's plenty of places in the world where a race of people or animals could have developed without Homo sapiens being any the wiser. Now suppose they got hold of us?"
"How?" asked Calvin.
"Through people working for 'em. We might all have been doped and put on a plane and we might be on an island somewhere now, or in the middle of a jungle, with these whatcha-may-call-'ems."
"How were we doped?" persisted Calvin.
"Gosh, I don't know that!"
"And what the devil do they want with us?" asked Watkins.