CHAPTER XWHAT THE GOLDEN SCARAB WAS
It was just as Nick Carter’s friends rushed to his side, to help him in case there should be any hostile demonstration, that Lord Slava, with his men, came swarming into the arena, and gave a loud command.
The soldiers who had been under the dominion of Calaman were merely hirelings, and when they saw that the death of the Golden Scarab appeared to mean the overthrow of the men who had for so long been the rulers, they were eager to flock to the new leader’s standard.
So they rushed to the gates which held back the intended victims of the Golden Scarab and flung them wide open.
Out poured a number of prisoners, blinking in the sunlight, and most of them wondering what it was all about.
Suddenly, with a wild shout of delight, and a sobbing, hysterica
