"Perhaps they are still here, waiting to get a shot at us!"
suggested Thede. "This would be a bad place for an attack."
As the boys advanced they heard a whisper of voices farther in, and
what seemed to be the rattle of footsteps over the uneven floor.
Then from some, apparently, distant comer of the cavern came a cry
in an unknown tongue. The next instant the place was illuminated
by two great torches of resinous wood.
They flamed high in the hands of the men who had been discovered in
the cavern during the first visit.
"Look!" cried Will, pointing. "Look!"
The eyes of the boys followed the pointing finger dimly outlined in
the light of the torches, and saw the Little Brass God swinging to
and fro in an uplifted hand!
"There!" exclaimed Tommy. "I told you we'd got the Little Brass
God!"
"But you haven't got it yet!" taunted Sandy.
"We'll have it in a minute!" replied the boy confidently.
The ugly little image remained in sight for perhaps half a minute,
and then the cavern became dark as pitch again.
The boys heard a quick rush of footsteps, apparently passing
further into the cavern, and then all was silent.
"That isn't the man who had the Little Brass God the other time I
saw it!" Thede declared.
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