"They're dead!" "Dead ?" cried Kitwater and Hayle together.

Then the latter added, "What do you mean by that ?" "What I say," Codd replied.

"They're both lying in the jungle back there with their throats cut." "Then I was right after all," Hayle found time to put in.

"Come, Kit, let us go and see.

There's more than we bargained for at the back of all this." They hurried with Codd to the spot where he had discovered the bodies, to find that his tale was too true.