LEONARD MAKES A PLAN The road which Leonard and his companions were following led them to the edge of the main and southernmost canal, debouching exactly opposite the water-gate that gave access to the Nest.

But Otter did not venture to guide them to this point, for there they should be seen by the sentries, and, notwithstanding their masquerade dress, awkward questions might be asked which they could not answer.

Therefore when they had arrived within five hundred yards of the gate, he struck off to the left into the thick bush that clothed the hither side of the canal.

Through this they crawled as best they might till finally they halted near the water's edge, almost opposite to the south-west angle of the slave camp, and under the shadow of a dense clump of willows.
"See, Baas," said the dwarf in a low voice, "the journey is accomplished and I have brought you straight.

Yonder is the house of the Yellow Devil--now it remains only to take it, or to rescue the maiden from it." Leonard looked at the place in dismay.