impatient to go ashore, and the time was spent in making preparations for the trip to the great caves near Caguas.
"We may have some difficulty in taking our guns ashore," said Dick. "In that case we'll have to rely, perhaps, on our pistols."
"You won't be hunters after game on this trip," smiled Bobert Menden. "You'll be after, something of greater value."
"But we'll have to go armed," put in Bob. "I've heard that Porto Rico is full of old-fashioned Spanish brigands."
"There are brigands, but not as many as you perhaps imagine," said the Englishman. "Our greatest enemy will be Joseph Farvel—if he turns up."
"And he will surely appear sooner or later," said Don. "We had better be on our guard against him and any followers he may have picked up."
