A step further.
Ah! there was an enemy on the bridge, for the traitor felt a hand close on his throat.
It was the hand of an Indian!
New York Harry started up, dropping ’Reesa on the bridge as he did so, and tried to cope with his still unseen antagonist!
CHAPTER XIV.
ON THE EVE OF EXECUTION.
New York Harry, as the reader knows, recognized the trio that dropped through the opening to the bank of the underground river.
They were Kit South, Evan Harris, and the indomitable chief of the Warm Spring Indians, McKay.
When last the reader encountered the latter, he was leaping into the river after shooting the red villain who was attempting to murder Kit and Cohoon, disguised as Klamath runners, and asleep in Jack’s cave.
Fortunately, the balls of the savage did not injure him, and his strong arms stemmed the current, which was not so powerful as those of several other streams running through the lava-beds.