Then there came an interruption that startled the girls into silence.
Something sped through the air over their heads, uttering a strange,
weird woo-woo-woo! It passed, followed by a distant report, the crack
of a rifle. Then, all at once, the lamp that Janus Grubb was holding
above his head crumbled into nothingness, the oil in the well of the
lamp streaming down over the guide's head and face.
CHAPTER XX
SEEKING A DESPERATE REVENGE
"Lie down!" bellowed Janus.
"Down!" commanded Miss Elting, in the same moment.
Janus moved more quickly than they ever had seen him do before. They
did not think him capable of such rapid action.
"Look out below!" he roared, as, with a series of rapid kicks, he sent
the burning sticks of the campfire tumbling over the edge into the
little ravine below the "Shelter."
"Get out of the light! Come up here as fast as ye can! Into the hut
with ye, every one!" Janus sprang from the rock and ran down the path
toward Harriet and Jane.
"What's the matter now?" demanded Jane, who did not understand.
"I don't know," answered Harriet, herself a little startled.
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