"I'm in your power now,
but there'll come a time when I won't be. Remember that!"
Jimmie's glass showed him that the men below were starting up the
slope.
"We'll go back toward camp," he said to Frank. "I guess the fellows
down there are watching us through glasses. If you don't mind," he
added, turning to Bradley with a provoking laugh, "we'll stow you
away in a hole in the rocks somewhere until they get tired of looking
for you!"
"Go as far as you like!" was the reply.
Frank and Jimmie stepped aside and conversed together in low tones,
trying to make up their minds what to do with the prisoner. It had
taken little trouble to capture him, but it seemed to them that it
would be no easy matter to hold him.
"There's a cute little dip in the summit not far from the camp,"
Frank said, at length. "A boulder tumbled out of the slope, and
there's a cave big enough to hide three in, only there is a part of
it which has no roof."
"Don't mind that!" Bradley said, in a sarcastic tone. "We won't have
a long residence in any place you select now."
"The summit is spotted with queer little openings where soft rock has
been washed out," Frank said, "and we can locate not far from the
camp if we want to.
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