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Updated: May 6, 2025
Orme slipped a heavy wrench into his pocket and closed the kit-box. With the girl, he avoided any reference to the possible presence of the Japanese among the trees, but knowing that he was no match for them unarmed, with their skill in jiu-jitsu, he resolved to be in some measure prepared. He walked through the gate and began to pace northward, keeping close to the fence and counting his steps.
This was the first evidence she had shown of nervousness, and Orme suddenly realized that enemies might be lurking among the trees. "It might be well for you to take the electric hand-lamp," she added. "It's in the kit-box, I think." He looked in the kit-box, but the lamp was not there. He told her so. "Maku may have stolen it," she said.
His assistant was in the grove below, assiduously helping Miss Knowles to erect a tent that the girl had improvised from a tarpaulin. Genevieve and Thomas Herbert were interesting themselves in the contents of the kit-box. The two ladies had ridden up to the camp on horseback, Isobel carrying the baby.
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