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He moved ahead of Scotty, panned across the wreck, then reversed the camera to photograph Scotty approaching. On a hunch, he stood well back when Scotty approached the underwater entrance and got a picture that was priceless! The grouper had returned to his home, and frightened by the light that suddenly probed his hide-out, he flashed out and caught Scotty by surprise.
Wasson argued that Dupont was heading for some Indian winter encampment, thinking to shift responsibility for the crime upon the savages, thus permitting him to return once more to civilization, but Hamlin clung to his original theory of a hide-out upon Dupont's old cattle-range, and that a purpose other than the mere robbery of McDonald was in view.
But beyond that she only said he had left her here to wait their coming. "You needn't be so mysterious, Miss!" ejaculated Helen, rather piqued. "I guess she doesn't want to say anything about his hide-out that might lead to his being hunted out by Lem Daggett," observed the wise Tom. "But Jerry signed his name to the note he tied on the arrow."
The party they were trailing was heading directly for the outlaw hide-out. Travis hoped Menlik had warned them in time. There that wall of cliff to his left must shelter the valley of the towers, though it was still miles ahead. Travis did not believe the hunters would be able to reach their goal unless they traveled at night. They might not know of the ape-things which could menace the dark.
"In the secondhand shops along Spaceman's Row," replied the big Venusian. "We can get good equipment down there at half the price." The cab turned abruptly off the main highway and began twisting through a section of the city shunned by the average Venusian citizen. Spaceman's Row had a long and unsavory history. For ten square blocks it was the hide-out and refuge of the underworld of space.
For the space of a quarter of an hour the hide-out ate hurriedly in silence, his food and drink guarded between his soaked forearms like an animal fearful lest its prey be stolen. Holcomb watched him the while with now and then a friendly word. When he had finished eating, the cavernous eyes looked up gratefully. "I dasn't risk it until to-night, Billy," he resumed.
It had not been the first time the trapper had acknowledged the hide-out as his son. A week after Bailey was shot he had told Holcomb and Freme with them he knew his son's secret was safe; they, too, had helped the outcast more than once. Years ago this strange old man had come out of the forest into the valley below Big Shanty, settled there and, after some years, married.
"Well, there's no use hanging around here if we can't dig any more of the stuff out, and I ain't going behind that lead shield unless I got a machine that tells me it's safe." "I've been thinking about Manning," said Brett. "What about him?" "Suppose we move the stuff we've already mined to the hide-out, and take this equipment along too. He can repair it out there.
Bending over the girl she lifted the mass of fair hair and kissed her on the forehead. Then she drew her own blanket about her. Thayor and the hide-out seated themselves on a log lying on the other side of the fire, out of hearing. "Mr. Thayor," began Dinsmore, after a moment's silence, "they've treated ye like a dog."
Folks don't keep stuff like that whar he kep' it 'less it's sumpin perticler. Somebody'll find him in the woods some time with a hole in him." Holcomb laid the powder on the table. What he suspected he dared not formulate into words, let alone tell the hide-out. "I ain't never forgot ye, Billy, for what ye've done for me," continued the hide-out with a choke in his feeble voice.
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