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Bet sighed as the last good-bye was said and she settled down in the car. "We've had a marvelous time! We never dreamed we'd have such an adventure." "Maybe it's just as well we couldn't forsee the struggle with Kie Wicks over that treasure," Shirley said with a happy smile. "Isn't it good to win out, no matter what you are doing?"
"Now walk slowly and get your money and belongings. If you run, you drop!" The men grabbed their money and hastened back to their position on the cliff, as if they were anxious to put distance between themselves and the shotguns. "Now go, and go quickly! Kie Wicks is due over this way in half an hour and if he finds you gone and us in charge, he's going to send a posse after you!"
There is nothing here to steal that I can see." This continued for a week and then ended abruptly. After that Kie Wicks came only once in a long time. This had been Maude's doing. "You ain't getting no where at all, Kie. You keep that old book-worm from hunting or doing whatever he wants to do. "Maude, you're a wonder! Why didn't I think of that myself?
Tommy was watching the two men, his nerves keyed up and every sense alert to the slightest movement of the men. He had noted the quick look between Kie and the Mexican and felt sure that it was a danger signal. It conveyed a message. Not for a second did the boy doubt that Kie and Ramon knew where the professor was. The boy was angry clean through, but he held his temper under control.
As the car driven by Matt Larkin came out on the main road, Kie ordered his men and his voice was hard: "There's the chest of treasure. Go get it! Don't fail!" A shot rang out! Matt Larkin tried to put on speed and get away from the small car that had suddenly sprung into the road, and having a higher-powered engine he succeeded for a while.
There isn't anything they wouldn't do for Mum and Dad and me. And they think you're a great man!" Kit defended them. "Old Mary and Joe are altogether different. Indian Joe is just like a white man!" answered Tommy. "And good as gold!" emphasized Kit. "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," Kie Wicks exclaimed dramatically. Kit flared up, but Bet soothed her.
"Kie Wicks must have spent a fortune trying to find treasure in that spot." "Yes, but not his fortune! He formed a company and sold stock, so it wasn't his own money he spent," Kit reminded them. The girls stood looking over their claims with affectionate glances. "I love them, Bet, and I'd just hate to have anyone else do the digging. Why can't we do it?" asked Kit. Enid spoke up.
Before leaving the wall, the professor had concealed the opening that he had found. As he turned to go he picked up a bit of the rock that he had pried loose. It was this rock that kept the secret of the tunnel from Ramon Salazar, hidden in the brush of the hill opposite, where he had been set to spy on the girls by Kie Wicks.
"That's probably what those bandits wanted. To scare us so we wouldn't go back. I hate to have them get away with it." At noon when the men returned to lunch, they had no good report. Although they had hunted the hills for miles, not a trace of the professor had been found. He had disappeared. Before lunch was over Kie Wicks appeared at the ranch house.
"It points toward the hill, that way," replied Bet, studying the markings carefully. "That's our good luck. If it went the other way, it would be across the claims of Kie Wicks and his friend Ramon. Come on down, child, before you fall." Bet slid down easily, her nimble body could cling to the sheer cliff, or so it seemed to those who watched her.
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