nd, a man
appeared directly in their path.

A second's delay would have been fatal. Poyor, releasing his hold of
Neal, dashed forward with the agility of a cat, and springing upon the
stranger bore him to the ground.

There was a short, sharp struggle which lasted while one might possibly
have counted ten, and then the man lay motionless while Poyor, grasping
Neal by the arm once more, darted on down the street.

Now it seemed as if the entire city had been aroused. On every hand
could be heard shouts as if of command and cries of surprise and anger.
The sound of footsteps in the rear told that the pursuit had already
begun, and it was a race for life with the odds fearfully against the
fugitives.

"You must run now as you never did before," Cummings said sharply to
Teddy. "There can be no thought of fatigue until we reach some shelter
where it will be possible to make a stand."

"I can hold out as long as Neal; but neither of us are a match for
Poyor."

"He could run all day."

Two moments later, when they were nearing a broad street which Cummings
fancied led to the woods on the eastern side of the city, Poyor
slackened his pace to say:

"There is one close behind who must be stopped. Will you do it, or shall
I?"

"Help Teddy along, while I try it."

As the Indian took Teddy by the arm, thus having a boy on either side of
him, Cummings unslung the rifle which had been strapped over his
shoulder, and, wheeling suddenly, raised it at a man who was not more
than forty yards in the rear.

"Don't shoot! It's me!" a familiar voice cried, and as Cummings turned
to resume the flight he muttered to himself:

"It's a pity they haven't caught you. But for your folly we could have
passed through the city unobserved."

Jake no longer believed the Chan Santa Cruz Indians to be such a
peaceable race. When, as Cummings had suspected, the shaft he was trying
to climb toppled over, he was able to escape injury by leaping to one
side, and immediately made an effort to detach the statue which was
cemented firmly to the stone.

It seemed to him that he had but just begun the task when two men rushed
from the interior of the temple. Fortunately for him they were unarmed
or his term of life would have expired at that moment; but as it was one
of them seized a fragment of the stone as he turned to run, and threw it
with such accuracy of aim that Jake's cheek was cut from the eye to the
chin as smoothly as if done with a r