Harry said, “Yes, Alf, I don’t believe we’ll have to disappoint you again. He’s very dead.”
“Let’s go and find him,” Pee-wee shouted.
“Do you think you’re able to move about, Roy?” Harry asked me.
“I started to find those two rocks and I’m going to find them,” I told him.
“I’ll help you along,” Grove said.
We made torches and lighted them at the fire. The way you do that is, to get a good stick and split it a little way and then split it crossways to that and keep on splitting it this way and that until the split parts are so thin that they just curl out and make a kind of a fuzzy topknot on the end of the stick. If you do it right, the stick will burn, for about half an hour. When we each had one, we started out to find the two rocks we had seen from up on the cliff and the body that we had seen between them.
“If it isn’t a scout then it must be a soldier,” Harry said, “because I’m sure about the khaki uniform.”
Skinny kept right close to Harry; I guess he was kind of scared thinking about what we were going to find. I couldn’t blame him, because it was kind of spooky, seeing those torches moving in the dark.
CHAPTER XXIV—WE BEHOLD A GHASTLY SIGHT
Grove said it was pretty risky leaving the auto, with no lights on it up there in the road, but Harry said it was worse to leave some one dying maybe, but more likely dead, between two rocks down there in that jungle.