In fifteen minutes we shall be able to see." "It won't swing across so much as it will come up in line with us," replied Rod.

"Watch how that light is lengthening! We shall be able to see for several hours." He started to rise to his feet but fell back with an astonished cry.
For a third time there came the mad hunter's scream, this time far above and beyond them, floating down from the distance of the moon-lit plain! "He passed us!" exclaimed Wabi.

"He passed us--and we didn't hear him!" He leaped to his feet and his voice rose excitedly until it rang in a hundred echoes between the chasm walls.

"He passed us, and we didn't hear him!" Mukoki's voice came strangely from out of the gloom.
"No man do that! No man--no man--" "Hush!" commanded Rod.

"Now is our time, boys! Quick, get everything to the creek.