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They sprang up when they saw us and seemed about to engage in conversation with us when Antoine made his appearance. Antoine seemed to want to talk with us, too, but when he saw the two men who had been asleep in the cavern he hot-footed down the slope, with the two fellows after him. I never saw a man run so fast in my life." "I bet they chased him clear to our tree!" Thede cut in.
"Anyway," Thede insisted, "I'm going to crawl up close and see what I can find out. That fire looks good to me." The boys advanced cautiously, with George a little in advance. The man at the fire sat with his chin on his breast as if in sound sleep. "I don't believe he'd say anything if we walked right in on him," Thede declared.
"Oh, you will?" grinned Thede. "I'd like to know how you're going to find it! George and I are the only ones in this party who can find the mysterious cabin in the bog!" "Well, then," Tommy admitted, "perhaps you'd better run on ahead and find it, while we come along with the kid!" It was a long and painful journey to the cabin, but it was finished at last.
The boys took short trips out of the cavern in quest of their enemy, but were unable to discover any traces of him other than the tracks in the snow. These led toward the chain of caverns which the boys had such good reason to remember. "I think we'd better make for the camp," Will suggested in a moment. "Why not move over to the cabin?" asked Thede. "It will be much more comfortable there."
As the moon rose, sending a wintry light over the great slope, three gigantic columns of smoke stood where the flames had shown a minute before. "What do you make of it?" asked Thede. "Can you read the signal?" asked Sandy. "Do you really think it is a signal?" "Of course it's a signal!" cried Sandy. "That's the Boy Scout signal. Do you know what it says?"
"We don't know where the Little Brass God is hidden." "He threw an Oriental perfume or narcotic of some, kind into the room and let out his persuasive language," Will went on. "If you don't believe he hypnotized Thede, just ask him what he heard just before he got out of bed." "I heard some one calling to me," Thede answered. "What did he say?" "He told me to come to him."
"It sat up on a shelf on the face of the wall, with its legs crossed, and its arms folded, and its wicked face telling me where I could go whether I wanted to or not." "I guess something's gone to your head!" declared Sandy. "But I'll tell you we found the Little Brass God!" declared Thede.
They're not going to give up their warm nest without a scrap, and I can't say that I blame them for it." It was considerably warmer in the cave and, out of the tempest, the boys were quite comfortable in their thick clothing. They huddled together at the far end of the cavern, and George kept the light turned, on the two bears, who were now growling savagely. "Why don't you shoot?" asked Thede.
"Are you sure you passed this way when you came to the cabin?" asked Thede as they walked along. "I don't seem to find any trail here." "It seems to me I came along here," was the reply. "If it wasn't so blasted dark, we could tell whether we were going in the right direction or not, all right!"
You can't mean that he had anything to do with your appearance here?" "You bet he did have something to do with my being here!" Thede insisted. "You see, it's just this way: Old Finklebaum says to me one day, 'I'll take the hair off Ikey's head for selling that Little Brass God!"
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