Part 35 (2/2)
”Yes, that's nice--if you are a crack shot, like Sanders He can knock the spots fro card at a hundred yards”
”Maybe he's a Western boy,” laughed Sa cattle ranch there, and Sanders learned to shoot while rounding up cattle He's a tip-top fellow”
They had passed over a sh rocks overgroith scrub brush and creeping vines full of thorns The thorns stuck everybody but Cujo, who knew exactly how to avoid theroaned Aleck
”Dis aolly!”
For two days the united expeditions kept on their way up the radually at its base, the steeper portion still being several days' journey distant
During these days they shot several wild aniht a monkey But the h to get rid of the mischievous creature
On the afternoon of the second day Cujo, as slightly in advance of the others, called a halt
”Two men ahead ob us, up u Susko”
”I hope it is!” cried dick quickly
The discovery was talked over for a few o ahead, accompanied by Randolph Rover and dick The others were to reht turn up
dick felt his heart beat rapidly as he advanced with his uncle and the African guide through the tangle of thorns and over the rough rocks He felt that by getting closer to King Susko, he was also getting closer to the mystery which surrounded his father's disappearance
”Dar hiwine up into a big hole in de side ob de mountain?”
”Can you make out if it is Susko or not?”
”Not fo' certain, Massah dick But hi to de Burnwo tribe, an' de udder man too”
”If they are all alone it will be an easy matter to capture them,”
said Randolph Rover ”All told, we are twelve to two”
”They have disappeared into the cave” Cried dick aworth knowing, I feel certain of it”
Cujo now asked that he be allowed to proceed alone, to make certain that no others of the Burnwo tribe were in the vicinity
”We must be werry careful,” he said ”Burnwos kill eberybody wot da find around here if not dare people”
”Evidently they want to keep the whole ht, Cujo, do as you think best--I knoe can rely upon you”
After this they proceeded with e covered with loose stones To one side was the mountain, to the other a sheer descent of several hundred feet, and the footpath was not over a yard wide
”A tumble here would be a serious ood care, dick, that you don't step on a rolling stone”