“What do you mean?” Ivana now asked.
“Do you know where the villages of the ape-people are?”
“Yes. None of us has been very far into the Rorroh, but I could guess where some of the villages may stand.”
Silence fell after that, but Kirby knew from the glint in Ivana’s eyes, and the quick breaths which other girls drew, that they understood.
“Ivana,” he said suddenly, “will you go with me into the Rorroh jungle, and stay with me, facing down every danger it may conceal, until we have found Naida and brought her back?”
A flush of life crept into Ivana’s pallid cheeks.
“Yes!”
Kirby faced the other girls, all of them keyed up now.
“Nini, will you go?”