"Or
must I continue to mount guard here? Besides, I want to go down and
look at our airplane, and pat it even if I can't get in and fly. I can
see it from here, and it looks tempting."
"You'll have to wait awhile to do that, I expect," said Jack with a
smile. "We must decide what to do next before we spend any time
playing."
At that moment, Tom Bodine yawned prodigiously and sat up on his
make-shift couch.
"At least I can have a voice in the conference," said Frank. "If Tom's
awake he can mount guard."
"All right, fine," said Jack. "We'll leave him out here with Morales
and Von Arnheim, as soon as he has had something to eat. Then the
three of us can take Stone into the other room and have a talk with
him."
So it was arranged.
CHAPTER XXI
GAINING AN ALLY
Before mounting guard, however, Tom thought of their horses, a detail
which the boys had forgotten in the quick march of events. He and Bob
descended the slope, brought the animals into the valley where there
was grass along the bed of a little stream trickling from a spring,
and a few trees that provided shade. The horses were hobbled to
prevent wandering too far, and then left to do as they pleased. They
pleased, every one, to lie down at once and roll.
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