Roger, assuming a brave air, arose.
“Come,” the man beckoned, “you will show me your wonders. I will show you mine.”
“Better go,” whispered Clark. “He will take you just where we want to get. Take Tip, and a radio, the battery set. And keep in touch.”
Chapter 15
IN THE LAMASERY
If the urging of the jeweler and of Doctor Ryder seemed like sacrificing Roger, they assured him that it was not so.
The lama, they declared, was interested in anything seeming to be occult or mystifying or a use of hidden forces. His attitude was not menacing. Rather, it seemed friendly.
And he was a lama from the very temple they sought!
“What a break!” Tip, whose companionship the man readily agreed to, as Tip carried the portable battery, compact five-tube set, telephone instrument and spare B. battery, spoke under his breath.
“This will coagulate everything, make it easy,” he added.
Roger, somewhat excited at the prospect of going into strange adventures, being “on his own,” nodded.