To Hardgrave he said quietly: “I saw him go. It was weird, I can tell you. And I shouldn’t take his going too much to heart. Fully thirty of Daego’s men went down the river just now. This last was too much for their superstitious minds.”
“Thirty! Did you say thirty?”
“Fully that many.”
“Then, Pant,” the old man sprang to his feet. “We’ll beat ’em yet, Pant. We’ll fight! We’ll fight!”
“Of course we will,” said Pant.
CHAPTER XXIV
BLIND DRIFTING
Late in the evening following his startling adventure in the ancient Maya temple, Johnny tapped at Jean’s door.
“Hist!” he whispered. “Go get Rod and come to my room. Got something to show you.”
A few moments later, in the privacy of Johnny’s room, lighted only by a flickering taper, the brother and sister stood before a mysterious something which stood upon a stool and was covered by a cloth.
“See!” Johnny exclaimed as he lifted the cloth.