Finally Harry paused. The steps of the savages were heard crashing along but a short distance behind him.
"Come on!" cried Turk, seizing the other's arm.
"No," answered the latter, "the man is evidently carrying us further and further from Mary. For my part, I shall endeavor to ascertain the fate of the girl, if I die for it."
All efforts of his friend to persuade him to keep on proved unavailing.
"Well, one thing is sartin," said the old tar, "where you go, there, sir, Tom Turk, who never yet deserted a chum, goes too!"
"Thank you," answered Glenville, squeezing the arm of his friend.
Stepping to one side, and crouching in the shrubbery, Turk persuaded Harry to do the same.
At this time, these two men were concealed from the savages by a high rock, round the angle of which they had passed.
The natives, when they made the turn, believing that the two had kept on, continued the pursuit in a straight line, seeing the form of the strange guide, faintly visible in the far distance.
When the savages had passed, making straight for the burning peak, Harry and his companion rose.