They laid me on the ground and
bent over me.
"The Incas!" I gasped.
"They are gone," Harry answered.
At that I struggled to rise and rested my body on my elbows,
gazing at the mouth of the passage. It was so; the Incas were not
to be seen! Not one had issued from the passage.
It was incomprehensible to us then; later we understood. And we
had not long to wait.
Harry and Desiree were bending over me, attempting to stop the
flow of blood from a cut on my shoulder.
"We must have water," said Desiree. Harry straightened up to
look about the cavern, which was so dark that we could barely see
one another's faces but a few feet away.
Suddenly an exclamation of wonder came from his lips.
Desiree and I followed the direction of his gaze, and saw the
huge, black, indistinct form of some animal suddenly detach
itself from the wall of the cavern and move slowly toward us
through the darkness.
Chapter XVII.
THE EYES IN THE DARK.
The thing was at a considerable distance; we could barely see
that it was there and that it was moving. It was of an immense
size; so large that it appeared as though the very side of the
cavern itself had moved noiselessly from its bed in the mountain.
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