4/8 "Are you Mr.Carmody ?" "Yes, yes!" "Then bring down your party. We have force enough to resist any attempt to hold you, and if any harm is offered you, we shall avenge it. Shall I come upstairs for you, Mr.Carmody ?" "If you don't mind," answered the voice of the man above. "There are two guards up here who seem undecided whether to shoot us or to let us pass." Instantly Ensign Darrin ran to the stairs, mounting them. Yet he was careful to take no chance of being surprised in the dark, for he well understood the treachery of the natives with whom he had to deal. |