“We decided to take him in after Murphy took the stone from us.”
“Did either you or Kidd accompany him to the fence?”
“No; he went alone.”
Burt believed Enoch. Murphy had not implicated the latter, as he certainly would have done had Cook returned to the house with Quick.
“I am more anxious to rescue Henry Stolburst, if he lives, than I am to find the diamond.”
“Burt,” said Cook, “do you suppose Stolburst would tell Ajeeb that Kidd and I had the diamond?”
“He’d be a fool if he didn’t.”
Enoch started.
“I do not want to have those devilish Abyssinians gunning for me. In their temples, they torture men in the most infamous manner.”
“But you are not in Abyssinia now.”