"White man walk byemby," returned the man of herbs. "Before sun up he go out. Then mebbe Indian kill um."
"That's alright, Reddy; we'll be there for the killing. But we don't 'low we've got any hard feelings again you. Hey, boys?"
"Sure not," chorused the others.
Crossing the medicine man's palm with a gold piece, to his intense surprise and satisfaction, they again led him into the vaulted chamber and releasing Dew Drop bade her bind the cloth about his eyes once more.
Tony seeing that his orders were being obeyed, had stepped back to speak to Frank as to the best means of disposing of their prisoners. As he turned he observed that the Indian girl was feeding embers to the fire the better to light their way out.
But the desperado had no more than turned his back on the savage and the girl ere the rocks beneath him were shaken by a mighty tremor.
A sudden and awful roar smote his ears.
A fearful blow seemed to have been struck across his eyes.
The air was full of hurling rocks and debris.
Tony and his companions were tumbled together in a confused heap, yelling in terror at the awful thing that had happened, though they knew not what it meant.