[Pg 22]��Anything new? Anything suspicious?����Here comes the tug and floating crane, to salvage the seaplane,�� said Jeff. ��You��ll have to stay in the tug deckhouse, till we get the straight of this��and for holding a gun on us. You can explain to the police, maybe��as for us, we don��t need to explain!��
ONE:In the light of a flare, Mr. Everdail perused the pages.
Amazed, Dick challenged Jeff��s statement.While the men sat at the long table, shovelling in with knife and three-pronged fork the food of the master their pride forbade them to serve, a horse came at a run, up to the quadrangle, and a cow-boy rushed into the open doorway. "Apaches!" he gasped, clutching at the lintel, wild-eyed, "Apaches!"��The English company became suspicious,�� Dick went on. ��They sent a man��we��ve called him ��the passenger����to this side, suspecting that some effort was on foot to hide the gems or get rid of them till the insurance was paid��it��s a trick that has been worked.��