“Well, you know now,” Rogers interrupted. “One of you see if he’s got them while I keep him covered. No monkey business, now,” he ordered as Bill stepped forward. He had no trouble in finding the six cells in the voluminous pocket of the Jap’s blouse, and as he drew them out one by one he chuckled with satisfaction. “W-what we going to——to do with him?” Gordon asked. His head was still a bit dizzy and his shoulders ached. “Me no——” the Jap began, but Rogers interrupted: “Shut up.” “But——” “I told you to shut up,” Rogers again snapped. “We’re running the show just now.” “Guess we’ll have to let him go,” Bill suggested. “How about shooting him?” Rogers asked and the Jap’s face took on an ashen hue. “Well, I don’t know but it would be a good plan,” Bill said, catching on to Rogers’ plan. “Me no want to be shooted,” the Jap pleaded. “What do you mean by stealing those things?” Rogers demanded. “Me no steal ’em.” “Cut out the lying. I suppose you just borrowed them, eh?” “Yes——yes, me borrow ’em.” “What were you going to do with them,” Bill asked him. “Me goin’ bring ’em right back.” “I suppose so,” Bill laughed. “Now see here if we let you go you going to keep away from us?” “Yes——yes, me no come again, never.” “Well, you’d better not. You won’t get off so easily the next time. Now get,” Rogers ordered. And he got, as Gordon laughingly declared a moment later. “Say,” he grinned as the Jap, running for dear life, disappeared, “that fellow certainly knows how to defend himself. Did you see him toss me?” “We saw him all right,” Bill laughed. “And let me tell you one thing, you’re mighty lucky you didn’t get hurt. If your head had struck a stone——but I don’t know though,” he hesitated. “I guess it would have taken a pretty hard stone to make a dent in that skull of yours. But seriously, Gordon, you should have used better judgment. Those fellows are past masters when it comes to rough and tumble stuff.” “You don’t have to tell me anything about it,” Gordon grinned. “I know it. But I was a fool, there’s no doubt about that part of it, but you see, I was so anxious to get those cells back that I didn’t stop to think. Anyhow, I guess we’ve seen the last of that guy.” “I’m not so sure of that,” Rogers mused. “Some of those Japs are the very dickens when it comes to pertinacity. But one thing I can’t understand and that is why he took the cells and passed up our grub and other things.” “If he saw us hide them, and of course he must have, he probably got the idea that they were valuable,” Bill suggested. “Funny what he was doing away out there anyhow,” Gordon said. “He must have been pretty near us when we landed as we hid them soon after.” “That’s very true,” Rogers told him. “He was there all right, but it’s pretty hard to guess what for. Maybe we’ll find out later.” “You really think we’ll see him again?” Bill asked.