“Just now,” interrupted Jim, “we must attend to the business in hand.”
“I put the matter in your control.”
“At the hour named,” suggested Jim, “do you go to the appointed place. I will be in hiding near at hand with the others of my party. There will be five of us.”
“And what am I to do?”
“Do exactly as you have planned. Do not, I beg of you, vary one iota. Let your man in the tree know that he must be ready for quick action.”
“You have ever my thanks!” said the Senor.
Very carefully, Jim went over in anticipation every move of the arrangement. When about to take leave, the Senor wrung his hand expressing his gratitude and they parted. Jim rejoined his party and found them eating the lunch they had brought with them from the ship.
During the afternoon Jim scouted around the country to the north of them with a result that had much bearing upon the future, but he was on hand with the others long before the appointed hour.