When do you want to go after him ?" "Just as soon as it's dark," Reade replied.

"That will be within the hour, for here in the tropics night comes soon after the sun sets." When the time came Tom and Harry left their tent, strolling slowly.
It was very dark and the young engineers listened intently as they went along.

They found their stranger and lifted him from the ground.

He was so slight and frail that he proved no burden whatever.

Apparently without having been seen by any one Reade and Hazelton bore their man back to camp.
"Into the cook tent," whispered Reade.