IN THE TIGER’S LAIR BY THE SAME AUTHOR _Illustrated by Paul Bransom_ THE HIDDEN PEOPLE A Story of a Search for Hidden Treasure CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS [Illustration: “Quizquiz, Inca, Child of the Sun ... commands that you appear before his sacred person” [_Page 95_] IN THE TIGER’S LAIR BY LEO E. MILLER AUTHOR OF “IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH AMERICA,” “THE HIDDEN PEOPLE” ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL BRANSOM NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO. THE SCRIBNER PRESS TO THE MEMORY OF LITTLE ROBERT PREFACE “In The Tiger’s Lair” is the story of the return of Stanley Livingston and Ted Boyle to the Andes Mountains of Peru to complete their search for the hidden treasure of the Incas. It is a separate and complete story in itself--one may read and understand it without having read “The Hidden People.” LEO E. MILLER. FLORAL PARK, STRATFORD, CONN., Sept. 1, 1921. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE END OF THE UNDERGROUND RIVER 1 II. SKY HIGH 11 III. THE RETURN TO THE LAND OF THE INCAS 24 IV. THE RIVALRY OF THE AIRMEN 32 V. IN QUEST OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE 43 VI. THE CROWNING MISFORTUNE 55 VII. IN THE TIGER’S LAIR 66 VIII. THE INCA’S THREAT 80 IX. SONCCO’S SHREWDNESS 92 X. THE PRISONERS CAPTURE THE KING 105 XI. THE COUNSEL OF THE WISE MEN 116 XII. THE VILLAINY OF VILLAC UMU 128 XIII. STANLEY’S PLAN 140 XIV. SONCCO’S AID TO THE PLOTTERS 151 XV. THE TERROR OF DARKNESS AT MIDDAY 165 XVI. THE COMING OF THE TIGERS 180 XVII. ANIMALS OF A BYGONE AGE 193 XVIII. THE MAN IN THE CRATER 205 XIX. THE BREACH IN THE MOUNTAIN IS CLOSED 221 XX. THE KING IS CROWNED 233 ILLUSTRATIONS “Quizquiz, Inca, Child of the Sun ... commands that you appear before his sacred person” _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Very obviously the Inca had carefully planned to impress the visitors 82 It was a bushmaster, the deadliest and the most feared of all South American snakes 170 An instant later a huge, dark form catapulted past the crouching men 210 IN THE TIGER’S LAIR