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He comprehended what was wanted of him, and peered down, seeking to penetrate the darkness. "Shall I go down a little lower?" asked Tom. For a moment Tomba did not answer. Then he uttered an exclamation of pleasure. "Me see hut!" he said, clutching Tom's arm. "Down dere!" He pointed, but neither Tom nor Ned could see it.

Damon and the other two men would stand by to fire on the red pygmies as soon as they commenced the attack, which they would undoubtedly do as soon as the guards of the captives raised the alarm. The airship was in darkness, for it would have been dangerous to show a light. Some wakeful dwarf might see the moving illumination in the sky, and raise a cry. "Mos' dere," announced Tomba at length.

The little brown man who was clever enough to pick the pocket of the sergeant of the guard found it even less trouble to return the key." "Cerverra didn't get away, anyway," muttered Lieutenant Ray, who had grown suddenly tired and careworn in appearance. "Undoubtedly that's because Tomba is of more importance to the Moro plotters than Cerverra.

He delivered a short-arm, right-hand blow that struck the native in the neck, felling him to the sidewalk. But Tomba was up in an instant, and a knife flashed in his hands. Hal did not flinch. He leaped upon the little brown man, getting a clinch that held the rascal powerless. Then Noll coolly took away the knife, striking the blade into the tree trunk and snapping the steel in two.

Then Tomba, with grief in his heart, and not wanting to live while the missionaries whom he had come to care for very much, were captives, he went back into the jungle, determined, if he could not help them, that at least he would share their fate, and endeavor to be of some service to them in their captivity.

So, I went off, with a guide, to an old, old garden, once belonging to an old, old convent, I suppose; and being admitted, at a shattered gate, by a bright-eyed woman who was washing clothes, went down some walks where fresh plants and young flowers were prettily growing among fragments of old wall, and ivy-covered mounds; and was shown a little tank, or water-trough, which the bright-eyed woman drying her arms upon her 'kerchief called "La tomba di Giulietta la sfortunáta."

It disclosed the black man standing up on the deck, and looking at them appealingly. "Yes, Tomba here," was the answer. "Oh, you be English, Tomba know. Please help Missy and Massy Illingway. Red devils goin' kill 'em pretty much quick." "Come in!" called Tom, as he turned on the electric lights in the airship. "Come in and tell us all about it. But how did you get here?"

"Ah, Señor Sergente!" cried a mocking voice. Then the new comer bent over the Army boy, and Overton knew him in an instant Vicente Tomba. "That hemp in your mouth looks as though it might give you discomfort a thousand pardons," observed Tomba mockingly, as he removed the cord that held the hemp in place.

Illingway, after more questioning of the black, "that he heard the red pygmies boasting of it after we had escaped. Tomba says he heard them say that, though we were gone, and could not be killed, or sacrificed, the other two captives would meet that horrible fate." "Two other white captives in the hands of the red imps!" murmured Tom. "We must rescue them!"

"How did Corporal Duxbridge ever happen to do a thing like that?" demanded Freeman angrily. "Tomba had already made the Corporal's acquaintance, sir. Tomba wanted to make mine, and Terry's, as soon as he knew the Thirty-fourth was coming to these southern islands.