Then they all shook hands, and Bart, Frank, and Billy hurried
back to their own quarters, full of excitement over the news that
Dick had brought them and hopes that they would soon have Tom with
them again.
But this was not to prove quite as quickly nor easily done as they
had anticipated, for conditions were so disturbed that small
detachments were not permitted to go into the surrounding country
lest they should be attacked and overwhelmed by superior forces
that might bear them down by sheer force of numbers.
They had to abandon therefore the plan to hunt Tom unaided, and
Frank went direct to his lieutenant and told him just what they
had learned from Dick regarding the presence of an American
prisoner in the Spartacides' hands and their suspicion that it
might possibly be their missing comrade.
To his surprise, he learned that the lieutenant had already
received a report from other sources that tallied closely with
Dick's. It was intolerable that any American should be left a
prisoner in the hands of desperate men who might at any moment
take his life, and plans were maturing to descend on the place
where he was believed to be held.
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