"Oh, some sort of brown stuff. I've seen Mother Beppo smoke it. It makes her oh so sleepy. So I gave some to him and he's sound asleep now."
"Must have been opium," declared Roy. "Wren, do you know that you are a very bad young lady?"
"I'd do anything for you. You're so good and kind to me," said the child, as she rapidly cut the ropes.
For a time the boys, after being freed, just lay there, unable to move. But after a while circulation set in and they began to move their limbs. In half an hour the trio crept out of the tent and, crossing the "island," traversed the trunk bridge.
"Wait a minute," said Roy, when they reached the other side.
"What are you going to do?"
"Make that whole outfit prisoners till the officers of the law can get up here."
He took a broken branch as a lever and with Jimsy's assistance toppled the log down into the cañon.
"Now I guess they'll stay put for a while," he said.
And they did. That was why, when a posse came up to capture the band, they carried materials for building a bridge across the cañon. It may as well be said here that the band received heavy sentences, it being proved at their trial that they had made a practice of kidnapping children and then trying to collect ransoms for them.