“Better see if he’s got another one first,” Bob suggested.
The man said nothing nor did he make any resistance as Jack searched him.
“All right, you can let him up now. He has no other weapon.”
They were just outside the door of the cave and it was fairly light in the room although there was but a single small window. As the man got to his feet he seemed perfectly composed, a fact which gave Bob a feeling of insecurity.
“We have decided not to give that promise,” he told him.
“So I judged,” the man smiled. “It would seem that, for the moment, the tables are turned, as they say, and I guess it’s my turn to ask what you are going to do with me.”
“I’m afraid we’ve hardly got that far in our plans. First would you mind telling us where you have put the things you took from us?”
“You’ll find them over in that corner,” nodding his head toward one of the corners farthest away from the cave.
“See if they’re all there, Jack.”
“All here including the lunch,” Jack announced a minute later.