CHAPTER X

Kirby, already falling back toward the other girls, caught Naida up in his arms, and ran. "Nini!" he bellowed. "Ivana! Get the rifles!" While the two whom he had ordered sprang to a corridor, and four others followed, Kirby fell in with the others and dropped Naida on her feet. Sick as he was, there was still a ray of hope, because the hard-headed precaution he had taken against treachery this morning was to have Nini and Ivana bring the rifles here and hide them. The first of the ape-men, snarling, laughing, had h…