“Will you finish telling me,” he asked of Naida, “about the task I am to perform for you here?”
Naida, walking with lithe strides along a path jungle-hemmed on both sides, smiled at him.
“You are to be our leader.”
“Yes?”
Now both Naida and the other girls became sober.
“You will lead us in a revolt.”
“Ah!” Kirby whistled softly.
“In a revolt against the caciques—the wise men—whose kind have governed the People of the Temple since the beginning.”
Her statement was received with acclaim by the whole troop, who crowded close around, the while they smiled at Kirby.
“You mean I am to lead a revolt,” he asked, “against these same caciques whom we are going now to face?”