Part 15 (1/2)
”You're the biggest baby of the five!” he roared ”You're awith hihtened his sster, then dashedhis head up and down as he spoke to the two girls His confidence in the rascal as possibly luring hinized at that uet out of this scrape by our own efforts,” irls won't leave him, worse luck If they would I'd turn tail this ht our way back to the yacht”
”And I doubt if you will find a haven there,” I rereat hurry to send word to Leith that I had got safely by his farewell boht as well realize the fact right now”
”You're not sorry I found you on that pile of pearl shell?”
”Sorry?” I cried ”I'ripped h the bushes toward the spot where Soma and Leith had started off on their supposed work of exploration
”What can we do?” I asked
”Wait round here and pot hister cheerfully ”But we should let the girls know soarbled account that will frighten theo and try to quiet their fears”
”You go then,” I remarked ”I'll wait here till you come back”
Holman crept quietly toward the ca in the east and a soft gray light wiped out the intense blackness that had coht The tops of the cliffs tohich ere journeying were tipped by a brilliant thread of silver as the moon peeped above their ralory of the glowing orb turned the night into day
I had waited some thirty minutes for Holman when I noticed a ht I watched the spot without ure crept out of the shelter and moved cautiously toward the camp Convinced that the visitor was So as I watched what he intended to do
The black figure came closer He paused to listen to the sounds that caht fell across his face, and I put the revolver back in my pocket
”Kaipi,” I murmured
The Fijian crept quietly to the spot where I was hiding
”I cos ht on mountain, no see fro bad Come, I'll show you”
Holman returned at that moment and I explained what Kaipi had just told ster ”The note said that he would ht is not visible froht that one of us would be far enough froht be able to reach the spot and see what is actually going on If we leave things till to-irls?” I cried
”We'll get back,” he replied ”I told the is, Verslun, and they're not afraid Edith has an autoht from the yacht, and she'll use it if she is forced to Come on!”
We followed Kaipi into the shadows, the Fijian picking his onderful instinct through the clumps At about half a mile from the caht flash way over there,” he whispered ”You wait and see”
We crouched down and waited The minutes passed slowly, but the black barrier away to the east gave no sign of life
”I think Kaipi --”
He broke off abruptly and gripped h up in the basalt barrier, at a spot about three quarters of a mile from where ere crouched, a tiny flaain Three times it flared up and as quickly died away, but at the third disappearance Hol through the network of danal had come