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We've tried the other side without success. We must go up this way or turn back." "Then we'll go up!" cried Mr. Jenks. "It may not be as dangerous as it looks from here." But it was even more dangerous than it appeared, when they went part way up it after a hasty breakfast.
We've got Jenks here, an' the damned old coward will do whatever I tell him." "But she despises me " "Oh, no! We'll make you a victim. That will leave things in proper shape between yer two. We'll play it off as a drunken lark eh, Jones? My God! it won't be the first time we've done the trick either. Do you remember that love-sick couple over at Tom's River, Ned? Never laughed so much in my life.
"Wall," friend Jenks again broadly uttered, in last words as he turned over with a grunt, for easier posture, near me, "hooray! If it simmers down to you and Dan'l, I'll be there." With that enigmatical comment he was silent save for stertorous breathing.
For answer the young inventor pointed up the mountain, to where, in the dim light from a crescent moon, there stood boldly revealed, the figure in white. "Bless bless my very existence!" cried the odd man. "What is it, Tom?" "The phantom," was the quiet answer. "Watch it, and see what it does." By this time Mr. Jenks and Mr. Parker had joined Tom and Mr. Damon.
Two or three glanced rather curiously at Kent and his companion, and he detected the covert smile on the scandal-hungry face of Polycarp Jenks, and also the amused twist of Fred De Garmo's lips.
Even the sailor was silenced. Talk ceased until the meal was ended. Jenks sprang lightly to his feet. Rest and food had restored his faculties. The girl thought dreamily, as he stood there in his rough attire, that she had never seen a finer man. He was tall, sinewy, and well formed. In repose his face was pleasant, if masterful.
Perhaps, when we do find it, we may see some easier way of getting to it than this. And if those diamond makers do attack us well, I don't believe they'll shoot defenseless men, and they may listen to reason, and give Mr. Jenks his rights tell him how to make diamonds in return for the money he gave them."
"Can you tell us what trail to take to get there?" asked Tom, of the miner. "Yes, it's called the old silver trail, and you strike it by goin' to a place called Black Gulch, about forty mile from here. Then it's twenty mile farther on. But take my advice and don't go." "Can it be reached by way of Indian Ridge?" asked Mr. Jenks, wondering how he had been taken to the cave of the diamond makers.
"I think it will bear out my theory that the mountain will soon be destroyed." "Well, you were right about Earthquake Island, and you may be right about this mountain," said Tom, "but if it is going to be annihilated I hope we get far enough away from it." "We can keep our presence here a secret for a few more days, I think that will be long enough," proceeded Mr. Jenks. "Then we will leave."
Mir Jan offered to mount guard beneath, but Jenks bade him go within the cave and remain there, for the dawn would soon be upon them. Left alone with his thoughts, he wondered what the rising sun would bring in its train. He reviewed the events of the last twenty-four hours. Iris and he Miss Deane, Mr.
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