"She returned to the cave where she had been im-prisoned," hereplied, "and is awaiting me there."

"There is no danger that Hooja will come while you are away?"

"Hooja is upon the Island of Trees," he said in reply.

"Can you direct me to the cave so that I can find it alone?" Iasked.

He exclaimed he could, and in the strange yet explicit fash-ion of thePellucidarians he explained minutely how I might reach the cavewhere he had been imprisoned, and through the hole in its wallreach Dian.

I thought it best for but one of us to return, since two couldaccomplish but little more than one and would double the risk ofdiscovery. In the meantime he could make his way to the sea andguard the boat, which I told him lay there at the foot of the cliff.