"What are you going to do--give it up?" he asked tensely.
"Nothing could have insured my sticking to it harder," answered
Craig grimly.
"Then we'll all have to stick together," said Norton slowly. "We
all seem to be in the same boat."
As he rose to go he extended a hand to each of us.
"I'll stick," repeated Kennedy, with that peculiar bulldog look of
intensity on his face which I had come to know so well.
IV
THE TREASURE HUNTERS
Norton had scarcely gone, and Kennedy was still studying the four
pieces of paper on which the warning had been given, when our
laboratory door was softly pushed open again.
It was Senorita Mendoza, looking more beautiful than ever in her
plain black mourning dress, the unnatural pallor of her face
heightening the wonderful lustrous eyes that looked about as
though half frightened at what she was doing.
"I hope nothing has happened," greeted Kennedy, placing an easy-
chair for her. "But I'm glad to see that you have confidence
enough to trust me."
She looked about doubtfully at the vast amount of paraphernalia
which Craig had collected in his scientific warfare on crime.
Though she did not understand it, it seemed to impress her.
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