The Indian nodded his head.
“What say, fellows?” Bob turned to Rex and Jack.
“I’d say it’s our best bet,” Jack agreed readily.
“Same here,” Rex joined in.
“Then Injun go soon as dark come.”
“Do you suppose there’s any possibility of getting any one with our radio?” Jack asked a little later.
“I doubt it,” Bob replied, shaking his head. “Wave length’s too short, but it won’t do any harm to try. If we’d only had brains enough to have left one of them at home we’d have had some help on the way before this.”
For a long time Jack tried to reach a station by means of the pocket set, but finally was forced to admit it was of no use.
“If we get out of this scrape, the first thing I’m going to do is to lengthen out that wave,” he declared, as he placed the case on the table.
As Kernertok had predicted, the night came on early and dark, for which they were very thankful. Had it been moonlight it would have been extremely difficult for him to get away, provided their enemies were on the watch, as the cabin stood in a clearing and on no side did the forest come nearer than twenty feet.