“Good!” cried Tony. “But can we do it?”
The avenue was fully one hundred feet wide here.
It seemed easy enough to go the other side of the line of palms, and the explorers made a move to do so.
But they had barely reached the other side of the avenue when a thrilling thing occurred.
The space between the palms and the buildings was hardly ten feet.
Suddenly, as they were passing through this narrow space, there was a rustling sound above, and a long, sinuous body shot down from a window of one of the buildings.
The next moment Pomp was encircled by the folds of a huge anaconda.
A startled yell went up from the astonished darky.
The others recoiled in amazement and horror.
Then, before any of them had time to act, Pomp was drawn up like a puppet and through the window above.