If she hadn't they'd have got me and Taggart in short order.
"We'd got where the treasure was, all right, but it was a mighty bad outlook for us.

We were kind of anxious about the bridge, being afraid the Toltecs would get it back into place; but the girl, who called herself Ezela, showed us that getting the bridge back wasn't possible without help from our side.

She said that the priest she'd dumped down into the canyon was the only one with the tribe at the time; the others had gone to a distant village.

She said, too, that there was a secret passage from the cave; she'd discovered it, and no one but her and the priests knew anything about it, but that the Toltecs would send runners for the priests and we'd have to get out before they came, or they'd lay for us at the outlet.
"Well, we hustled.

We felt bad about Nebraska and Taylor, and were determined not to leave without some of the treasure, and after Ezela showed us where it was I kept her busy talking while Taggart got about as much as he could carry.