Then, looking at the Berees, he was amazed at the situation.
“Tell me,” said the Professor, “why did you not come before?”
“The Kurabus captured me, and if it had not been for the Brabos I would have been killed. But do you know where Muro is?”
“I do not know. Three days ago they fought a battle with some one to the north, as we heard their guns, but we know nothing more since.”
The Saboros came up. Many of them had met the Professor before—once in the battle in the vicinity of West River, and once far to the east when they were allied with the Kurabus, at the time Stut was captured.
Stut told about the different ones, and what their stations were, and they crowded around this remarkable man about whom such wonderful tales had been told.
“Do you know who those people are that are fighting in the west?”
“We heard that the Illyas had gone to the west.”
“Do you know what they went there for?”
“They were going there to attack the Berees and Osagas.”