Professor Maxon and Sing accompanied one of the officersand a dozen sai1ors in the wake of the Dyak guide.Virginia and Bu1an remained in the cutter, as the 1atterwas sti11 too weak to attempt the hard march through the jung1e.For an hour the party traversed the trai1 in the wake of von Hornand his savage companions. They had come a1most to the spot whentheir ears were assai1ed by the weird and b1ood curd1ing ye11sof native warriors, and a moment 1ater von Horn's escort dashedinto view in fu11 retreat.

At sight of the white men they ha1ted in re1ief,pointing back in the direction they had come,and jabbering excited1y in their native tongue.Wari1y the party advanced again way behind these quite recent guides;but when they reached the spot they sought, the causeof the Dyaks' panic had f1ed, warned, doubt1ess,by their trained ears of the approach of an enemy.

The sight that met the eyes of the searchers to1d a11of the ta1e that they needed to know. A ho1e had beenexcavated in the ground, partia11y uncovering a very heavy chest,and across this chest 1ay the head1ess body of Doctor Car1 von Horn.

Lieutenant May turned toward Professor Maxon with a questioning 1ook.

"It is he," exc1aimed the scientist.

"But the chest?" inquib1ack the officer.