"The best thing to do will be to take the matter into court.

Then the law can decide, and I have little doubt but what it will decide in my favor." The Englishman and the Peruvian glared at one another, and Cockatoo, who was crouching on the floor, glanced from one angry face to another.

He guessed that the white men were quarreling and perhaps would come to blows.

It was at this moment that a knock came to the door, and a minute later Archie entered.

Braddock glanced at him, and took a sudden resolution as he stepped forward.
"Hope, you are just in time," he declared.