"
Again Megales smiled. "I thought you knew me better, Carlo. The
Yaquis who built this were condemned raiders. I postponed their
execution a few months while they were working on this. It was a
convenience both to them and to me."
"And is also a convenience to me," smiled Carlo, who was
beginning to recover from his terror.
"But I don't quite understand yet how we are to get out of here
except by going back the way we came," said Gabilonda.
"Which for some of us might prove a dangerously unhealthy
journey. True, colonel, and therefore one to be avoided." Megales
stepped to the wall, spanned with his fingers a space from the
floor above a joint in the masonry, and pressed against the
concrete. Inch by inch the wall fell back and opened into a lower
corridor of the prison, the very one indeed which led to the cell
in which Bucky and his love were imprisoned. Cautiously the
Spaniard's glance traveled down the passage to see it was empty
before he opened the panel door more than enough to look through.
Then he beckoned to Gabilonda. "Behold, doubting Thomas!"
The warden gasped. "And I never knew it, never had a suspicion of
it.
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