“Of course I do.”
“Near here?”
“Why, I believe that we are not ten miles from it.”
“But if it is inhabited with people like these with whom we have just had a little experience——”
“But it is not. It is a ruined and deserted city. Come, Frank, with your Steam Man we can find it. You must agree to go.”
Frank was silent a moment.
Now that he had accomplished the real object of his mission—the rescue of Tony Buckden—he was quite willing to turn about and go home.
But he knew Tony well enough to be sure that he was very much in earnest.
He would not leave his purpose unaccomplished, even though it cost him his life.
There was no doubt but that with the Steam Man the country could be safely explored.