"
"I know, Bob, I know," answered the older man. "But you can't
understand a father's feelings. And it isn't all over yet by any
means, for you haven't rescued Mr. Hampton. And you don't know what
difficulties you will encounter in doing so, and what dangers you will
run."
"Oh, I believe the worst is over, Dad," answered Bob. "We have
captured Morales and Von Arnheim, and they were our two worst dangers.
If we had encountered them at rebel headquarters and they had
recognized me, our goose would have been cooked. We would have been
taken prisoners, too. But now there will be nobody to recognize us.
The rebels will take us for what we pretend to be, young Americans
seeking adventure and riding in to enlist."
"Perhaps, Bob," said his father, only half convinced. "But let me
think this over. There ought to be some other way to rescue Mr.
Hampton now that you have the airplane again. Also you have these
prisoners. It may be that you can gain some valuable information from
them. Have you questioned them yet?"
"That's just what I was coming to, Dad," said Bob.
Thereupon he proceeded to tell his father of Roy Stone, the young
American in charge of the radio plant in the cave, whom they had made
prisoner.
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