13/27 Jose talked to the boatmen while the cans were stowed away in the bottom of the car, and then turned to Hillyard. The tent will be gone--everything. If our luck holds--and why should it not ?--no one need ever know that the Senor Marteen and his friend Jose Medina picnicked for three days upon that cape." "But the lighthouse-keepers! What of them ?" objected Hillyard. In him, too, hope and excitement were leaping high. But this objection he offered up on the altars of the gods who chastise men for the insolence of triumph. |