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Updated: June 25, 2025
The native with the skewered hand picked himself up and dashed toward the trees, but the other remained at the foot of the pillar, and his position led us to believe that his neck had been broken by the fall. "My knife!" cried Kaipi. "He knocked my knife down!" The Fijian swung himself over the edge, and with monkey-like agility slipped down the pillar.
"Kaipi," I whispered, "if you wait a little while I promise you that you'll have your revenge for Toni's death. You watch Soma and the others, and when the time comes you can give him all he deserves. If you stuck a knife into him here Leith would shoot you." Kaipi nodded his head and trudged forward as Soma came sidling toward us.
The morning visitor dropped to the ground, and the three of us promptly fell upon him, the bloodthirsty Kaipi having to be restrained by main force from giving another exhibition of neat knifework. "Who is it?" asked Holman. "Get back, Kaipi, and let me see."
He paused to listen to the sounds that came from the fire, and as he lifted his head the moonlight fell across his face, and I put the revolver back in my pocket. "Kaipi," I murmured. The Fijian crept quietly to the spot where I was hiding. "I come for you," he muttered. "Why?" "Funny things much," he gurgled. "Light on mountain, no see from here. Me watch it, think it something bad.
He reached the topmost branches, and selecting one that led toward the rocky wall, he straddled it and worked his way slowly forward. Kaipi and I clung to the fork of the limb and waited, and as I watched Holman the wisdom of our actions was assailed by a cold doubt.
"I wonder where those two other devils went to work the machinery." "They must be close," I whispered. "Drag us over to the edge, Kaipi. They'll surely come up to see how the job was done or to see what is delaying their pal." Kaipi helped us over to the edge of the table, and while he was doing so he related briefly how he came to be on hand at the opportune moment.
Holman paused at the end of a wearisome climb, and he drew himself upright. At that moment the cloud-harried moon dragged herself from beneath the pack, and the young fellow gave a cry of joy. "We can do it from here, Verslun," he cried. "I see a path to the top. Come along, man!" "What about Kaipi?" I gasped. "We'll never find our way back here." "Let him sit there," he snorted.
The afternoon had lengthened out before Maru returned with Holman and Kaipi, and we hurriedly considered the best course to pursue. One Eye had been with Leith when Maru deserted, so it was obvious that we were not far from the ruffian's hiding place. "If we could catch this lunatic on the cliff?" muttered Holman.
The lawyer-vines gripped our ankles and flung us upon our faces scores of times, but we scrambled to our feet and rushed on. Kaipi had made the discovery at an opportune moment. Now that we were certain that Leith contemplated treachery, the wait through the long night would have maddened us.
Soma and the other five carriers were evidently tools of the big bully; the person or persons to whom the note was addressed would also stand behind him in a fray, and against this little army there was Holman, Kaipi, the two sisters, and myself.
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