Muro shook his head despairingly.
“It must be the Professor and his party,” exclaimed Blakely.
“Hurrah, if it is,” cried Tom. “Won’t that give us a chance?”
“I wonder who they are going to help?”
“Why, don’t you see, Harry, they are coming up behind the Brabos, and the latter see them now.”
“Yes; they will side with the Brabos.”
“How many can you see?”
Sutoto looked for a time, before answering: “About seventy-five or more.”
“Then it must be your people,” said John.
“I do not think so, as they would not be so far west.”