He observed the camp, expecting each moment to see Negoro or Harris appear.

His expectation was in vain.

He had no doubt, however, that those two miserable men had directed the attack against the ant-hill.
Thus the thought came to him that Mrs.Weldon, little Jack, and Cousin Benedict had been led away separately by orders from the American or from the Portuguese.

Seeing neither one nor the other, he said to himself that perhaps the two accomplices even accompanied their victims.

Where were they leading them?
What would they do with them?
It was his most cruel care.